My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I’ll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It’s fucking insane.

  • The first half of S1 is on Netflix
  • The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
  • The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
  • The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places… Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it’s another 52 episodes!

You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it’s all free) but they don’t!

Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.

I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What’s the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?

Love to get your input!

  • Breakfulus_Emphotoga@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I fully support this, I recently tried to watch all of Pokémon to get caught up after hearing they were making a new season (Pokémon new horizons)

    the only place I found I could watch most of the seasons without paying like 5 subscription based services was archive.org because someone posted s1-s19, along with generations and origins on there (along with the every movie in order of when they were released up to “Volcanion and the mechanical marvel”)

    I wouldn’t fuss about it if all of the seasons were on one subscription based service like Netflix, but I’m not paying multiple subscriptions for 1 show.

    But, if you don’t care about season 2-22 or just don’t mind not watching them, Pokémon tv just released the final episodes for Season 24 so they have season 1, 23, and 24, plus the slim possibility that they will release season 25 (keep in mind they release an episode and a special set of episodes relating to a theme every 1-2 weeks, normally on Fridays)