I'm noticing a weird trend between the two of us where I'll agree with one thing then disagree with the other lol. I feel like we should start counting...
I knew it! With a ghost train episode and Gigantamax Gengar, it was almost a certainty!
Most of the older movies tend to make Ash the star. May is lucky she even got a subplot in a movie since most of Ash's companions don't even get that. Besides that the way most of AG was written had May play second fiddle to Ash a lot of the time.
I also recall a tendency for non-Pikachu Pokémon to maybe have a start-of-film battle and then mostly sit around being cutesy.
The Gosh darn day I decide to go off the Pokemon anime and all electronics until Friday, this happens! Anyways, I'm hyped. Another Galar gym leader. I'm still really thinking Ash's next opponent in the PWC is Sabrina. She matches the woman in the silhouette and since she has Ash's Haunter, I'm sure she'll have some Gengar with her as well.
I feel like the DP movies should deserve a spot there as well. Seriously, the amount of boring exposition and random and pointless action scenes in the DP movie trilogy is insane. I haven't watched the Zoroark movie, but if it's anything like the previous three movies, then I don't want to. It was really hard to get invested in the character relationships presented and the movies themselves felt like drawn out filler episodes at best. These movies just screamed lazy writing in my opinion and didn't really bother telling an actual story worthy of being turned into a film.
I feel the first three DP movies were at least okay, with movie 10 probably being the best one out of them. But movie 12 is definitely not that great. Mainly because I hate that they introduced these two characters who were all like, "Remember those important events during the first two movies? Yeah, we were there too, actually. That makes us important too!" Yeah, no, you're not. Also, my suspension of disbelief was stretched pretty thin with how the time travel physics worked in that movie, and if you ask me, Arceus really wasn't portrayed as the god it is.
The damn thing created entire dimensions and bowled over the combined efforts of three gods of space-time, but a meteor is where Arceus met its match.
Ah yes the 2 canon Pokemon x Pokemon ships
Buneary x Pikachu and Cinderace x Lucario
(Both of Ash's Aces have a Bunny Bae how adorable)
(I swear to Arceus all this Buneary merch better not be misleading)
The best ships are the ones that were clearly unintended yet pushed strangely often.
Honestly, in my opinion, Pikachu and Meowth had the best dynamic compared to any other pokemon. There's just so much chemistry and history in every single one of their interactions. Remember that dream episode from XY? They were tense around each other at first, but then you see them quickly adapt: therein lies the history. You wouldn't understand why they were so on board with working together unless you knew their history, which is what makes it so great. Especially when you later have them show genuine concern for each other. It isnt one dimensional, either, like many other dynamics tend to do. They don't just flip a switch and automatically become complacent to work together: it isn't forced. Thus why you have, in the episode I mentioned, Meowth screaming to give Squishy to the fire that was chasing them and Pikachu calling out his crap. They can still disagree, but it isn't to the extremes. There's a balance present.
I recall there was one episode where everyone got split up in the Battle Frontier (I can't recall the name but the Pokémon were being pursued by some tough looking guys who were searching for a missing Pokémon) where after everyone gets hungry Meowth goes off to steal some food, accidentally gets the food legitimately, then when he returns with the food seems offended that Pikachu quickly assumes he stole it.
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I believe the episode you're thinking of is, "King and Queen for a Day."
