Nah, Sycamore has been revered as the most handsome professor by many, it's not simply psychological I'd say
Also, dem subs tho. Primitive, but at least they capture the gist. From the looks of it, Alan seems to be still in doubt that Lysandre is truly evil. He keeps questioning him as if hoping to change his mind or something, and ofc, ultimately doing nothing useful apart standing there dumbfounded. Alan pls, you're better than that. I'm curious to see what Malva's planning to do, as I said before, she didn't really seem like she knew this was part of the plan. I'm also curious to see whether TR's boss will play any part in all of this as foreseen by Olympia. That would be pretty cool. I hope the gym leader cameos mean more than just being shown to watch the Lumiose crisis. They probably don't since it's not like they can teleport to Lumiose but it'd have been nice if they'd somehow join in on the fight. In any case, the Flehhhhhhhhhhhhd arc is cool and will keep being cool.
Apparently, some staff dood supposedly tweeted something about 10 episodes left of the XY anime, not sure if including or excluding this one. No idea how credible that stuff is, but it's possible. We only know the confirmed episode titles until September 15 where we're having a zygarde vs zygarde 1h special. They're going on a break after that until September 29. The expected ending date of the XY season is around November 3 or 1 week earlier since the Pokemon anime usually ends 2-3 weeks before the release of the new games. Technically if we count the special as 2 eps (or count this episode in the 10), we'll have 10eps by november 3, so it fits. Do you think the Flehhhd arc ends immediately during the 1h special or will it end during the episode that follows after? And what will happen after it ends? That's still a bunch of episodes to go for a simple goodbye bit