Nuzlocked Batman

Intro

This evening I spent time finishing up the 2nd Season of Batman Beyond. Kind of glad for that to be over, considering I've been watching it for a month.

Today I've got a review of Batman Beyond's 2nd Season and today's Nuzlocke Challenge Update. Also, there will be a Housekeeping section after the Nuzlocke Update.

SPOILER WARNING

If you have not seen Batman Beyond, Season 1 or Batman Beyond, Season 2 please leave the blog and return later. I tend to be more spoiler-y than not in my reviews.

Batman Beyond, Season 2 - Review

Batman Beyond, Season 2 was the Season of returning villains. We got Shriek, Spellbinder, The Royal Flush Gang, Willie Watt, and Stalker back, that I can think of. We also got some kind of interesting one-off villains in Payback and Dr. Wheeler. For the most part, the villains were very connected to Terry's high school friends. Makes me wonder why apparently no one's noticed that trend with Batman.

I really liked that we got more Max this season. I really like her. I think she's more than a match for Terry and Bruce. I think her funniest moment was when she got tricked by Bruce in "Where's Terry?" Her most awesome moment was also in "Where's Terry?" when she save Bruce's butt with the Ts.

I'm somewhat glad we didn't get a whole lot of Babs this season. What we did get was kind of awesome, but she's a lot more abrasive in Batman Beyond than pretty much anywhere else. In terms of other minor characters, I liked the Ratboy episode with Dana. Showed she had more spunk than I gave her credit for. I also liked the last episode of the season "Ace in the Hole." I was not expecting that to be an Ace backstory. And Bruce totally worries about him during the episode. If you've seen it, you'll understand why I say that.

Personally, my favorite episode this season was "The Eggbaby." Yeah, it was cheesy in parts, but I was really amused by it. I liked that we got a really old school Batman villain. I liked the humor of the episode. I also liked the eggbaby concept. It made me very glad all I had to do in Home Ec was carry around a potato.

Overall, this was a really solid season. I can't remember any of the really clunky episodes off the top of my head, but that's probably more to do with the fact that I took a month to watch this so... there are clunkers, but the good far outweighs the bad.

I'm going to be taking a little time off watching Batman Beyond, so the Season 3 review will probably take longer than a month to come out.

 Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Twenty-One

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie - 35

Ms.Feather - 35

Bri - 35

Knight - 34

Jordan - 35

Rogan - 34

Day 21

I've apparently been spelling Rogan's name wrong. I meant to name him "Rogen" in the game but I just noticed that I named him "Rogan." So... that's not a new Hitmonchan up there with a slightly different name.

Today I got Fly from the chick in her "Secret Retreat" up on Route 16. Ms.Feather is now an air-taxi.

I headed back down Route 17 to Fuchsia City on the left side of the route. We fought a few Bikers and Cue Balls we'd passed going up on the right.

Ms.Feather then flew us up to Saffron City where we had another go at Silph Co. We got through 2 more Team Rocket Grunts and 2 more Scientists. We also grabbed TM01 - Focus Punch.

I almost feel like I should kill one of my Pokemon just so I can draw another tombstone... the Snorlax and Eggsecute ones look kind of forlorn on by drawing pad...

Housekeeping

I've added a new page to the site! Up there in the navigation bar is a new label: "Fall Schedule."

For those who don't know, I do reviews for shows as they air. My Fall Schedule details what I'm planning to watch and when I'm planning to review stuff.

This year, I've decided not to do Initial Reactions. Instead I'm going to be killing some old notebooks with notes so I can then review shows for you. Initial Reactions didn't really make sense as a thing anyway, considering they were meant to be a substitute for live Tweeting and didn't live up to that.

Nuzlocke Challenge Updates will be getting their very own posts next week. Review posts run long enough as they are/will be.

But yeah... that's pretty much it from me for today. If I go on any longer I'll babble.

Love ya, Jessie

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Twenty

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Pokemon:

Frankie - 35

Ms.Feather - 35

Bri - 32

Knight - 33

Jordan - 33

Rogen - 33

Day 20

My newer Pokemon care catching up to my two originals in terms of levels. That also means Frankie and Ms.Feather aren't really seeing a lot of action these days. Ah well, they'll get their chance again soon, I'm sure.

Today my team and I started out training on Route 15. However, after days of battling there, I was bored. We took off for the other side of Fuchsia City and Route 18. There we met and caught a Spearow. His name is Robin and he's joined Titan the Seaking in Box 1.

Route 17 up to Route 16 and Celadon City was slightly fun a slightly annoying. Riding up the giant hill is a pain, while watching my little sprite roll down it on frequent trips back to Fuchsia City's Pokemon Center was fun. On Route 17, the first Pokemon we cam across was a Spearow. Knight gleefully killed it. The next Pokemon we met was a Raticate. I caught him and named him Fred. He also joined Titan in Box 1.

I hadn't realized that Route 16 to Celadon city was blocked by a Snorlax otherwise I'd have gone the other way around and caught something else. However, since Sleepy was close to my heart, I opted to go ahead and catch the Route 16 Snorlax. I named this one Bo.

After refreshing my team at the Celadon City Pokemon Center, we headed back to Route 16 in order to battle the group of Bikers and Cue Balls there.

That was essentially all I had time for this evening. We had another good day in which no one died, thankfully. I was kind of worried whenever a Cue Ball sent out a Wheezing.

Love ya, Jessie

P.S. Gaiaonline's having a short back-to-school event that started yesterday. It's essentially just quoting people over and over in the forums for an item, achievement, and possible bragging rights at the end of the event for your team... or whichever one you end up on. Go check it out!

Red Dwarf Nuzlocke

Intro

So... I took a bit of time off from marathoning Batman Beyond. Red Dwarf X was my TV show of choice. So today I bring you a review of Red Dwarf X as well as today's Nuzlocke Challenge Adventures. Enjoy.

SPOILER WARNING

If you have not seen all of Red Dwarf, please leave the blog and come back later. My reviews always contain spoilers as it's next to impossible for me to discuss things on my own without doing so completely... mostly because I'm kinda lazy in that regard.

Enjoy your review.

Red Dwarf X - Review

The boys are back! Well... except Holly. And there's no Kochanski in sight either... but she's not one of the boys so... yeah... Still not entirely sure where she's got herself off to, but Lister hasn't found her yet.

I honestly loved Red Dwarf X. It was back to the hilarity that was largely left behind in Red Dwarf: Back To Earth. I quite enjoyed the newest update to the Dwarf as well, though I found myself missing the largely grey sets of the first couple of seasons. I'm glad Lister now has a couch, though I wonder where the heck it came from. I liked the updated Dwarf cockpit; I liked the new vending machines; and I adored Cat's suits!

I laughed myself silly through all of the episodes. I think my favorite was "Dear Dave." I accurately predicted the outcome of Lister's girlfriend's pregnancy, but seeing him go bonkers over it was funny. I especially loved the bit where he was attempting to help the vending machine up off the floor. I do have to wonder, though, why there is still some monetary exchange going on when there can't be any money coming in. Still, the whole thing with the toilet paper was funny.

If you are a fan of the rest of the Red Dwarf series, I would highly reccomend getting your hands on Red Dwarf X. If you've never seen Red Dwarf before and are reading this for some reason, go watch it. You won't regret it. Also, don't take the continuity seriously. As The Red Dwarf Introcast is fond of saying: "It has been accounted for."

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Nineteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie - 35

Ms.Feather - 35

Bri - 30

Knight - 31

Jordan - 30

Rogen - 31

Day 19

Another day in which none of my Pokemon bit the dust! Yay!

I essentially did a lot of training today. My team battled random Pokemon in the grass of Route 15 for a while before I got bored and went back to the Fuchsia Gym. We battled all the trainers there and then I decided we ought to train some more... We were honestly nearly slaughtered by the last two guys.

Overall though, we had a brilliant day training. Hopefully we'll get in good shape to challenge Koga at some point tomorrow.

Housekeeping

Okay so... I went just a little gif crazy today, hope you don't mind. It's what happens after I've had a Green Tea Frapp from Starbucks. All of these gifs were searched out using Google Images and pretty much came off Tumblr... I should make a Tumblr...

Love ya, Jessie

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Eighteen

Intro

Just wanted to explain that I'm changing the little sprite captions to include the level my Pokemon are at because I realize it's a little hard to tell that I've actually been training them. That is all, you may continue.

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Eighteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie - 35

Ms.Feather - 35

Bri - 29

Knight - 29

Jordan - 30

Rogen - 29

Day 18

Today was essentially a training day. I went from Lavender Town to Fuchsia City and mostly trained on Route 15 with my VS Seeker. I did run to Route 11 and grab an Itemfinder from Professor Oak's Aide, so that's a little progress made. 30 Pokemon "captured."

In Fuchsia City I went fishing in the backyard of the Fishing Guru's brother and caught myself a Seaking. My sister suggested I name him Titan, so I did. He's a level 30 and currently boxed due to a full team.

I've decided to go ahead and evolved Bri, Knight, and Jordan when Frankie evolves. I've got the stones lying around in my bag so it just makes sense to use them. Besides, they'll most likely end up at essentially the same level, given the way I train my Pokemon.

"And everybody live, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this!" - The Doctor

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Seventeen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Bri

Knight

Jordan

Rogen

Day 17

I started off my day by challenging a few trainers on Route 8 via my VS Seeker. However, that didn't end up lasting very long or relieving my boredom so I went to finish the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City. Unfortunately, Sleepy was killed by one of the trainer's Primeapes. Bri evolved into Gloom and I picked up a Hitmonchan. I named him Rogen and chose to replace Sleepy with him instead of with Jordan.

R.I.P. Sleepy

I then went to the Silph Co. Office Building to see how far I could get there. Tripoli was killed by a Team Rocket Grunt's... Zubat maybe... I can't remember off the top of my head. I replaced Tripoli with Jordan and she evolved into a Nidorina.

R.I.P. Tripoli

Figuring since I'd killed two Pokemon today, I'm gonna go back to training elsewhere. Gonna head back to Fuchsia City via Lavender Town, I think.

Housekeeping

At the time of typing this, I haven't yet done Sleepy or Tripoli's tombstones. I'll be getting on that sometime tonight or tomorrow, so keep an eye on my deviantART if you like that sort of thing.

Love ya, Jessie.

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day 16

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Sleepy

Bri

Knight

Tripoli

Day 16

The small amount of time I spent playing today was spent training my lower-leveled Pokemon. I headed down to Route 19 and fought one of the swimmers there. Knight evolved from a Nidoran to a Nidorino after that fight. I then decided it would be a good idea to head up to Saffron City and try my luck there.

My team and I battled the first two guys in the Fighting Dojo. Grey Lady was killed by one of their Machokes.  I replaced her on my team with Tripoli.

I then decided it would be a better idea to use my VS Seeker instead of finishing the Fighting Dojo. We battled seven trainers before I decided to teach Bri Flash and head back into the Rock Tunnel. That's pretty much where I ended my Nuzlocke journey for the day... after retrieving a Max Ether, that is.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Trailer

I'm just gonna drop this here... It made me go into full-on happy dance mode. I can't wait!

Love ya, Jessie.

Two Days of Nuzlocke

Intro

Okay so... I was lazy yesterday. When I say "lazy" know I really meant "stinking tired" because I was babysitting my nephew from 9:30 AM to 11-ish PM. I did, however, get in a little Nuzlocke-ing while he was napping.

However, since I didn't post my stuff last night, I'm going to go ahead and post it today, followed by today's Nuzlocke adventures. These will be formatted like I did them on separate days, just because I can.

Nuzlocke Challenge, Day Fourteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Grey Lady

Sleepy

Day 14

My team and I pretty handily beat Erica and the other trainers at the Celadon City Gym. We then headed through Saffron City back to Lavender Town. Once there, we went through Pokemon Tower.

In the Pokemon Tower, I caught a Haunter and named her Grey Lady after the Ravenclaw ghost. We beat the four Team Rocket Grunts easily before being dragged back to Mr. Fuji's house. He gave me a PokeFlute.

My team and I then headed down Route 12 until we encountered the Snorlax blocking our path. I caught the Snorlax and named him Sleepy. He took all of my Great Balls and most of my Pokeballs to capture.

After talking to the Fishing Guru's brother, I received a Super Rod. After that, Zatanna, by Kadabra, was killed by a self-destructing Voltorb. God Damn Selfdestruct. It's a super dumb attack and I hate it!

R.I.P. Zatanna

 That concludes Day Fourteen of my Nuzlocke Challenge.

Nuzlocke Challenge, Day Fifteen

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red

The Character: Vera

The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Grey Lady

Sleepy

Bri

Knight

Day 15

I started out my day on Route 13. I caught another Oddish and named him Terry. Terry was shortly killed on Route 14 by a Birdkeeper's Pidgey. I cannot express how much I loathe Birdkeepers. There are so dang many on Route 13 and Route 14. Gah!

R.I.P Terry

Kors was killed shortly after Terry was by another Birdkeeper's Doduo. I can't say I'm exactly sad to see him go, because his lack of Accuracy was annoying me to no end, but Kors managed to survive his uselessness to become a valued member of my team.

R.I.P. Kors

Of course, Kors' death came just before I reached the only grass patch on Route 14 and he was the only Pokemon I had that could learn Cut. So, on the first time through, I didn't catch a Pokemon for Route 14.

We continued on to Route 15, where Sleepy killed the very first Venonat we saw. Today was turning out not to be my day. However, we soldiered on through the grass to Fuchsia City.

I wasn't sure what exactly the rules were governing the Safari Zone and the Nuzlocke Challenge, so I sort of made up my own. I figured if I just went through one time and caught as many Pokemon as I could on that one time through, I could keep all of them. I also made it through to the guy who gives you Surf... which I'd completely forgotten about. But anyway, the following Pokemon were caught in the Safari Zone:

Knight

Orion

Jordan

Tripoli

Rockslide

I decided to add Orion and Rockslide to my team and left the others in my Box on the PC. My team and I then headed back to Route 14 where I caught another Oddish. I named her Bri. On the way back to Fuchsia City, Rockslide was killed by another Trainer's Hitmonlee. I replaced him on my team with Bri.

To finish out my day, I ventured into the Fuchsia City Gym. This turned out to be a bad plan because Bri was horribly under leveled for the Gym and everyone else was just slightly under leveled. Either way, I ended up losing Orion to the first Trainer's Hypno we battled. Like I said, today was just not my day.

R.I.P. Orion

Orion was replaced by Knight on my team. I thought it was fitting.

Housekeeping

Tombstones for the last two days will be up on deviantART later tonight. I realized I forgot to do Orion's so... I'm off to do that now.

Love ya, Jessie.