That would be interesting, because that would imply that this would not be the last episode. I wish The Pokémon Company would be transparent on the show’s future at this point, we should know things like how many episodes are left of Journeys and the next series by now. It doesn’t help that JN132 feels like a finale in multiple ways as well. I just feel uneasy more than anything, since I’m incredibly used to watching this show throughout my life, and I can’t imagine what its future is for the first time ever.
It wouldn't be unprecedented for there to be a couple weeks' worth of break between series. So it could easily be that the next series won't start until 2023.
Yes. That is what I meant, actually. For example, there was a multi-week break between BW and XY.
I highly doubt it. Granted, I never believed that Ash could be replaced to begin with, but I don't think that either the anime or Ash's time in the anime would end without a lot more hype. We certainly wouldn't be speculating on whether or not that was the case less than a month before the episode airs. They would have announced it well in advance to create some easy hype for the anime.
I don’t think that’s a fair comparison to make. While the Island Trials weren’t brought up often, it was Ash’s goal of the series. They’d go long stretches between it because Alina is so small that had they purely focused on it, it would never fill a series.
Because those people project their feelings about the gym challenge onto the series forgetting that the main target demographic is the new kids getting into the series rather than them all while simultaneously not coming up with any kind of convincing replacement that wouldn’t basically involve completely changing Ash’s character. It’s a discussion that we’ve been having since SM ended yet somehow it hasn’t actually changed in 3 years.
