As we can see, Team Rocket are missing a lot of episodes in Best Wishes. But the question is....what if the writers ALWAYS did this since the beginning?
I think its safe to say TR should have never appeard in any Gym battle or heavy battle-centric episodes, since their scenes were almost always useless filler. Even their roles in the leagues could have been removed. They were fine during Contests obviously because Jessie competed in most of them.
There are also a lot of filler eps where Team Rocket only ever got 2-3 minutes of screentime. A large chunk of fillers just have TR show up at the very end for a quick blast off, and the eps would have probably been better off without them.
So I ask you, what if Team Rocket weren't always shoved into every Kanto, AG or DP episode, and they were excluded in eps they didn't need to be in?
I think its safe to say TR should have never appeard in any Gym battle or heavy battle-centric episodes, since their scenes were almost always useless filler. Even their roles in the leagues could have been removed. They were fine during Contests obviously because Jessie competed in most of them.
There are also a lot of filler eps where Team Rocket only ever got 2-3 minutes of screentime. A large chunk of fillers just have TR show up at the very end for a quick blast off, and the eps would have probably been better off without them.
So I ask you, what if Team Rocket weren't always shoved into every Kanto, AG or DP episode, and they were excluded in eps they didn't need to be in?