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Episode N was the best thing about Best Wishes and it still could have been better.
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You know, the whole regressing statement is actually pissing me off. Because as I said at other times, Ash really wasn’t that dumb. He had a rough start, but he never came off as dumber than normal, with very few exceptions.
This might be the best (and maybe the only good thing?) about BW Trio: their appearances were more ''dosed'', cuz let's be frank, in Gym Battle episodes or some VERY important eps for Ash and his companions, they just don't add anything, at least imo. They cram way too much time in eps like that, even though they aren't necessary for the plot to move forwad, just there to clog away time.
And yet that's exactly what a good chunk of their BW appearances were. The stuff leading up to the skipped Meteonite two-parter, for example, was just painful. This week's Rocket trio scene is of them ordering food at a cafe. Next week, they pick up a brief case. The next week, they look up directions on Google Maps. They used these mundane scenes to keep shoehorning them into a bunch of episodes, even though the show not doing that was supposed to be one of the pros to making them lifeless robots.
I don't really agree with the common argument that Ash "regressed" in BW. I think it was more of the fact that they were trying to go for humor in the form of Ash making dumb mistakes but it never really came across as funny, particularly after everything he had already accomplished. It's unrealistic to expect people to believe that Ash would only bring one Pokémon to a gym battle after the sheer number of gym battles he's already participated in. It's not regression: it's literally just a massively missed attempt of trying to force a "funny" moment.
Honestly, it's the exact same way with Cameron. Guy shows up at the tail end of the series and is an insufferable, bumbling idiot the whole way through. It was clearly meant to be funny. Maybe for kids it was. I found it unbelievably annoying, and the fact that he beat Ash in the league (again, after NOT BRINGING AN ENTIRE TEAM...why this was actually a recurring trope for them in this series I have no idea) really just sealed the deal for how awful of a "rival" he really was. And I'm not sure if he was like this originally because I had stopped watching the BW subs by this point but the constant screaming he did in the dub was so heinous. Literally everything about Cameron was just so off putting.
As for the bit in your post I underlined? Another exception to the rule I dare say. Rants from the older fans have gone on for a long time without the show being altered in response. Yeah I think it's safe to say that the planets aligned and the younger audience must have responded poorly to the decisions made in BW as XY was basically an opposite for the most part (again Kalos League finale notwithstanding).
So yeah for once even the "well kids like it" doesn't hold quite so true for BW.
About Ash forgetting how to catch Pokémon, it wasn’t necessarily like that, it’s more that he gets excited in the heat of the moment. We see this in Sinnoh and hoenn as well. I’ve never really felt trip was that bad of a rival, he could have used a bit more love, but not that bad.It had a lot of potential BW, at the beginning but it became obviously clear that they just gave up at the end (with the league, rushed Episode N, horrible Declora Filler). Ash this series was horrible, forgetting how to catch Pokemon, acting like an idiot and not mature as he was at the end of Sinnoh after the Paul Rivalry, the Elesa & Cameron Shitshow and of course his rivalry with Trip was undoubtedly written badly. Not only that, the overwhelming use of Stock Footage (colored backgrounds) during Battles made it awful. They were clearly going for something different in this series and wanted to "Restart" but failed miserably at it. And let's not even talk about I**s & C***n. I really wonder what they are going to do with the former when she reappears in Journeys.
Huh, I always liked evaluation time. His enthusiasm is charming, but I can see how it might be too much.I recently watched a couple of BW episodes. And honestly, it wasn't half bad. The only thing that really grinds my gears about the series (at least within the few episodes I have fresh in my memory) is Cilan/Dento spewing out nonsense in a very pompous tone for way too long without really saying anything at all, which is something that happens way too frequently to just be ignored.
Maybe it’s been a while, but I don’t remember Iris being that much of a rookie. She did get excited over cute Pokémon, but that’s the closest thing I remember to her being one. It has been a while since I watched the series though.