Im dreading if the last ep is completely rescored...

So much of it is comprised of Japanese OST tracks 4Kids kept in especially the Johto portion of the Anime dub, ironically, we'll see what Farb, Gopal, and co. do...

Anyway I like to torture myself by sitting through the dub (kidding), so glancing at it in all seriousness, they had the main three read the title card and it has a very disjointed feeling, to say the least (incredibly lame TPCi has had Goldfarb rescoring it all through JN, in the 4Kids run outside of EP001 at least they put some Japanese OST cue in place of it at worst to the end of AG145). Also, a TPCi dub era episode title without an exclamation mark at the end of it in the title card? Pinch me, I'm dreaming!

Voice Acting Comments (Scroll below if uninterested):

Re: Lex Lang, he sounded REALLY awkward at first as the hunter, and the voice is honestly deeper than I had imagined...but it's a cooler villain-esque voice than his Maxie, I suppose, it got a bit better as it went on but he still has moments of sounding a bit too forced to me.

Brock still feels totally miscast, more than ever in this one, far too deep & gruffy as has been the norm to me for Mr. Rogers in this role to me.

Misty is hit or miss as the norm with a nasal affliction and still has moments of sounding too old and womanly, than like a little girl, so it's all over the place as usual from Mrs. Knotz & par for the course.

Ash to round off is the "best"/least bad of the recast roles I suppose after 17 years, and I guess he sounds decent/okay when he's happy or excited nowadays, but his screaming around the 11 min mark is absolutely ear-shattering in the cave and the voice gets very grown woman-esque whenever he either has to yell or has to raise his voice in anger, and the performance feels completely unbelievable to me in any moments of high emotion of seriousness from Mrs. Natochenny (it's also notable at the 17 min mark, when she says "Use Aura Sphere" Ash sounds like a very angry grown woman in her late 20s-early 30s instead of a little boy as well as "Use psychic," just an unnatural and stilted delivery after all this time). Also, when he said, "We have to rescue Latios" he sounds a bit like a teenage girl, um?!

Now on to TRio, Edward Bosco is pretty much still on DP dub James tier with the nasal & goofy timbre, which means I hate it less than I do JCC's XY onward take, but more than anything from Lewis or Stuart ever, and meanwhile, Michele Knotz's Jessie is still super high pitched and valley girl-esque at times to me, though I think her Misty take is worse of the two roles she took over though FWIW. Mick Wingert is just impersonating JCC as Meowth, and it still sounds overly forced, gruffy, and deep, but that's because who he is impersonating in the first place took the dub incarnation in the exact wrong direction to me around mid DP onward (at first, Cathcart was imitating Blaustein in the TAJ BF/e.DP era, but around the time DuArt took over and the alliteration show began in the DP dub is when it dramatically nosedived to me, and never recovered).

(Note: Brock at the 15 min mark is absolutely atrocious, he sounds like an old man 100% when he yells there, as it is I find the voice outright unfitting even normally but whenever he gets emotional, it is at its very worst IMO)

Script oddity I noticed, didn't watch it in depth, but this stuck out:

"Let's all recharge our batteries" - Misty (This sounds fine...until you realize no little girl would say things like this, typical Cathcart, it's his "Pikachu's just about to hit the wall" from BW era Ash in the dub moment for Misty in the JN era dub, yuck: in Japanese, she just said, "Gotta make sure you're fully recharged.")

Side note: Glad Ash didn't say "Kay" at least, happy he has said "Okay" for a full dub episode for the first time post-4Kids without the former, but that it took this long is sad.

Music comment:

At the 14:45 mark, when Lex Lang's character in the Hunter says, "Get out of my way," I actually broke out in tears laughing, re: the music Goldfarb & co. could not have picked a more unfitting theme for that moment- it's supposed to be dramatic and serious, but his score made me laugh at how comedic it sounded when the shot hit Steelix.