GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! Ugh...I feel like kicking something at the moment...maybe a crumbly ledge? I missed every single Gym Leader battle live (and the Fighting Dojo doesn't count much)...the more irritating ones are:
-Koga, because I actually had to sit through most of the arduous trek from Lavender Town to Fuchsia City, followed by the moment where Red defeated one Fuchsia Gym Trainer and fainted near the Fuchsia City Pokemon Center due to Pidgeot's poisoning in the overworld.
-Sabrina, because she was supposedly the "toughest" Gym Leader in Red/Blue/Yellow due to the Psychic-type Pokemon being overpowered, yet we swept her as if we were just breezing through her Gym
-Blaine, because I sat through the highly monotonous 1.5 hours when we were stuck in a 2-square-wide corridor because of a table and a conniving Burglar, having to resort to fainting Red's whole Pokemon party to escape..
-Giovanni, because I sat through the first 2 attempts of when we entered the Gym after hours of work and promptly made some weird hasty exits.. Also, this battle was apparently quite the show.. The real kicker is that, unlike most of the other Gym Leader battles which seemed to be in the middle of the night for me, I could've potentially seen this one if I woke up just a little earlier.
Sigh...all that viewing time expended seeing Red bumbling around, and now it feels like there's no payoff. Yeah, there's probably going to be YouTube uploads, but the experience isn't the same as witnessing the event live, especially after having to slog through all the boring parts (particularly the Pokemon Mansion "imprisonment" uneventful Viridian City wandering).. ARGH! Why couldn't we be stuck in Viridian Gym for just a few hours more? >.< I'm not even that excited to see the Elite 4/Champion battles now, because I'll probably miss those, too, what with all the likely blackouts in Victory Road. This "school" thing had better pay off.. T_T Ugh, now I don't even get to hear [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OO5VAKk0d8"]"Battle! VS Gym Leader (Kanto)" (Red/Blue variant)[/ame], due to the Elite 4 using the standard Trainer theme in Pokemon Red/Blue Versions; just watching one live Gym Leader battle would've sufficed for me!
On a side-note, congratulations to the chat/mob catching Zapdos with a Master Ball; I surely thought that we would waste our Master Ball on an unfitting non-legendary wild Pokemon like Caterpie! Special mention goes to lost Pokemon like DUX the Farfetch'd (with Cut), BigDig the Raticate (with Dig), and Cabbage the Gloom (the latent Seed of Hope), who were sadly released in the post-Zapdos exodus.
And I guess congrats for finally beating Sabrina, getting to and beating Blaine, and finally getting to Viridian Gym and trouncing its Gym Leader..
Anyway, onwards to Victory Road..I guess?
Also, the Misty "meme" in the chat struck me as odd.. On a side-note, has anyone who's played Red/Blue know if you can Fly to a city/town if you've just visited the city/town but haven't used its Pokemon Center yet? I know it's possible in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, but this thing became an issue when we approached Fuchsia City before..