Just caught up with the series, and have to say I’m really enjoying it. Liko has a solid start to her character, whilst Roy is doing just enough for now. The most surprising thing is that I actually warmed up to Cap really quickly, not finding him an annoying forced-insert!

It’s nice to see them take an actual adventure route in this series, and it helps that we don’t have any context from the games (as of now). The show is well paced, helped by the characters from the Rising Volt-Tacklers making everything feel connected, no matter how small. I love the tiny interactions all of them have with each other.

Although, it’s obviously not perfect. I do kind of fear for the stakes of the series as it goes on. As people have said, what are the Explorers really supposed to do? This episode kind of highlights this for me. They can’t capture Lucius’ Pokemon without Terapagos, and I can’t imagine Terapagos co-operating if they get it. They already tried captures several times, it would be kind of repetitive for them to keep it up like a game of Hot Potato.
If Roy’s objective ties into Liko’s so much with the Ancient Explorer, then what’s he adding?
From last episode, it left it on a good cliffhanger for Freide, then he managed to get out - no biggie.

All I can hope for is for Amethio to switch sides? Or disband from the Explorers, creating his own side/faction in the story? Make Liko’s pathway of being a trainer boil down to making tough decisions for the sake of winning in other ways (like Amethio is the actual descendent of Lucius, enabling him to accomplish more in terms of peace/power/prosperity)?
Hope it continues to engage me!