Ash is a trainer who's been to all these lands, catched innumberable pokemon, faced legendary pokemon and in these first two episodes he's failed epicly. Highlight of the episodes was how Ash got his butt kicked by a noob.

Tripp..... :/ I like Shooti better. His Japaneses name. His voice isn't that bad actually. And compared to Paul, he's decent.
Glad they made the opening so short. The animation sucked.

This new season is full of surprises. New voices, animation (the moves look epic. Especially iron tail), "whos that pokemon" and team rocket's BA attitude.

i give them credit for being creative with the opening. it'll take some time for me to get used to it. but the vocals are horrible. other than that, everything went along great. things are moving much faster; this time around it's more fast-paced. Iris is cool, but not eye-candy. i miss Dawn! i like the new rival as well. very Paul-like. but what bothers me are two things: ASH STILL HASN'T AGED. i know the Anime has this rule of him not aging, but i don't give a damn. even Delia said "Ash you've grown so much." EXACTLY, he GREW which involves the ppassing of time. whatever in my head Ash is 14 years old. my other complaint; Pikachu losing. WTF. this is the same Pikachu who defeated Latios 2 weeks ago. a Regice. a powerful Dragonite, and so on. i'm just going to pretend that before going to another region, Pikachu enters a "reset machine" which brings him back to level 10. and how can Ash possibly forget to weaken a Pokemon first before throwing the Pokeball? his excuse: "oh yeah i knew that!' uhhuhhh,,,, no. but the new TR is fierce and loving how bada$$ they are this time. i can't believe Pikachu lost against Jessie's new Woobat(was it?) i love how TR are starting off fresh with new Poke. Woobat is definitely a perfect signature Pokemon for Jessie. i hope James capturesthat half Grass half Steel Pokemon. the return of the Who's That Pokemon was a pleasant surprise. for the first time in history I didn't know who it was! (referring to the Pidove) i feel like a newb for not knowing the English names yet, but it feels kinda nice because it's like i'm learning or what not. haha

So I finally got to watch the episodes from Saturday. And I really must say I'm really impressed with it. It justremindedme from back in the day, with the Who's thatPokemonand stuff. I really cannot wait for the rest of the season/series.

Some of the concepts are completely different now. It's not the basic, 6 pokemon only, fire/water/grass thing from Kanto, Brock does nothing, Pikachu shocks bike thing.

If they changed all THAT, it's just natural to think that the writers would at least change this also and not make Ash lose to the stupidest thing possible.