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According to SPD, the episode discussion thread for the first episode of the new season of Pokemon is not for the discussion of the spoiler filled opening sequence, so I decided to make one for it. I must say, I found it very interesting. True it didn't exactly exceed the classic openings made when the dub rights were owned by WB, but it still pretty good.
It sucked! I find the first Dubbed Opening of DP more catchy then this one. I'd prefer if the girl sang it.... but even if the girl did sing it, I wouldn't have liked if she did this version either.....
I really hope them dub people know what their thinking......-_-
I'm just surprised that they didnt use a single scene from any episodes
I'm kinda and kinda not surprised that they showed Monferno's Grotles evolutions and togekiss' capture (you cant call this a spoiler anymore)
Kinda sucks. The lyrics are okay, but the guy singing is just boring.
Title: We Will Carry On
Lyrics:
It's about you
It's about me
It's about hope
It's about dreams
It's about friends that work together
To claim their destiny
It's about reaching for the sky
(Pokemon)
Having the courage
And willing to try
It's about never giving up
So hold your head up
And we will carry on
(Sinnoh League Victors)
Pokemon
Spoilers: (highlight to see them)
* Ash's Monferno evolving to Infernape.
* Ash's Grotle evolving to Torterra.
* Dawn catching a Togekiss.
* Zoey, Kenny, Nando, Ursula, and Jessi(e/lina) entering the Grand Festival.
* Paul, Barry, Nando, and Conway entering the Sinnoh League.
* The possibility of Ash using his other Pokemon that are with Professor Oak.
So the new opening isn't too bad, better then Season 10 ("Diamond and Pearl") but slightly less better then Season 11 and 12 ("We Will Be Heroes" & "Battle Cry - (Stand Up!)"). Out of all of them I prefer "Battle Cry - (Stand Up!)" being it's the one to get you most pump but we aren't here to discuss which is better.
I'm interested that the title is "We Will Carry On", the line was used before in Season 7's opener ("This Dream"). I think a better title would probably be "It's About" being those two words were said about 7 times.
According to Bulbapedia this is the second opener to not include any episode clips, the first being Season 4's opener ("Born to Be a Winner")
Enough beating aroudn the bush, to the actual opener. Now while I do like Legendaries (who doesn't), I feel that they were stealing most of the screentime, despite some of Ash's Pokemon fighting them. Personally the only Legendaries that have a right to be there is Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, (possibly Darkrai too) and they appeared at the end doing nothing but posing (except for Darkrai).
I have nothing to really say about the spoilers as it was obvious they were going to include the "big three" as the dub opener never changes even if a change in the party occurs and they don't have it on the dub opener.
Well, that's my opinion. It ain't bad, but it ain't as good as the previous two openers. But it gets the point across that you're about to watch Pokemon, though it doesn't really scream you'll be watching the last season in Sinnoh. It also felt short (despite it being 30 seconds like the previous ones) and the singer wasn't really putting any emotion into it.
| Pikachu315111 wrote: |
Title: We Will Carry On |
Are you really, really sure t that "we will carry on" is never said in the song?
| dman_dustin wrote: | ||
Are you really, really sure t that "we will carry on" is never said in the song? |
Oh, would you look at that. Well I still go by saying the song should be called "It's About", being it was said seven times and the line "we will carry on" was used before.
I'll go change my previous post now.
| thec0mebackman wrote: |
| silly me forgot to Tivo the new series, so had to Youtube the theme song. & oh man ...am I weird cus I freakin' LOVE it. it's simple, song is catchy (though it doesn't get you pumped up) but it still really sounds good. I get like an oldPokemon-KidsWB-ish sound vibe from it. loved the scenes SPOILER alert to those who haven't seen it yet: did my eyes deceive me or did I see Gabite?! what the! ugh, I HATE spoilers. |
What? No, that was Gible.
yes, we kinda noticed that in the japanese opening..
While I do believe there could have been more emotion in the song and the beat could've been a bit like the one from Season 10 (you have to admit, that opening them had good music), I did like it because it had the title following the song instead of before it (I just thing it's better done that way).
