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banned pokémon episode 3: Electric Soldier Porygon wow the flashing was so obviously a bad idea from the first moment i saw it. like i'm (now) fairly confident i'm not epileptic, but full cyan/red alternating at 24fps was not exactly a delightful sensory experience. i don't know why they did this

27/1/26, 2:43 pm1 repost43 likes

eevee

@eev.ee

27 Jan

otherwise a classic 90s Go Into Computer episode, complete with the threat of a rogue antivirus (the actual cause of the flashing — porygon had nothing to do with it) porygon is a pretty chill guy but doesn't do a lot really. mostly functions as a big default blender cube for everyone to ride on

eevee

@eev.ee

27 Jan

allegedly the next banned episode (and original next episode), holiday hi-jynx, was shuffled in the order (due to the show going on hiatus after porygon) and still exists dubbed with jynx repainted purple, although i don't know where exactly

Sarcophagus Hayati

@lordhayati.bsky.social

27 Jan

Porygon deserved better. The only footage I've seen of the episode is the part where misty gets digitally uploaded. There was an edit that someone did that transformed her into a vaporeon instead (it was extremely high quality and sfw-ish, too).

eevee

@eev.ee

27 Jan

lmfao i knew i recognized that misty upload from the fucking vaporeon tf

Sarcophagus Hayati

@lordhayati.bsky.social

27 Jan

Credits to the artist to making it look almost exactly like the show! XD Also Pikachu deserves the blame for the flashing lights. :v

Cephalopod Celebrity

@cephceleb.bsky.social

27 Jan

and yet they still punished porygon by never showing it in the anime again :(

LeBaron @AC

@lebaron.bsky.social

27 Jan

i will always mourn the special red and blue boy...

juv3nal

@juv3nal.neocities.org

27 Jan

speaking of flashing lights, I'm reminded of Captain Power which had an unusually heavy finale for a show to sell toys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain...