At least the finale of SM was pretty exciting. Too bad they bored me almost to sleep getting to that point. (Oh, but surely JN would learn from that mistake, righhht? And not wait until almost the end of the series to make things interesting?
)Honestly if they wanted to fill in space between each trials they could of done something interesting with the "school"
Personally, I hate school, so the "school" setting in SM almost killed my interest from the get-go. I love the feeling of being out on an adventure somewhere new and exciting, traveling to parts unknown. (I apologize if I'm romanticizing things a bit.) Point is, the traveling and adventure concepts of the Pokemon anime pre-SM were some of the best parts of the series to me.
SM should have been just like every series that came before it.
Lol I forgot to mention how the heck does Giovanni know nanu. Such a compelling idea introduced and them IMMEDIATELY ignored. What was even the point of that?!
It's not about the ''how?'' as much as it is about them bringing up this idea and immediately dropping it and doing jack with it.
Yeah but all the big plot points were addressed. Minor stuff like what the SM cast were going to do after was addressed in the finale because it was just setting up their endgame.
honestly, genuinely i cannot express how much i agree with you here. it really is for the best i watched sun/moon when i did because had i watched it when it first aired, i would have absolutely hated it. even now, i feel like the school setting goes against what i feel is a big theme in the pokemon series as a whole and ESPECIALLY alola, i'm no good with words but the interview screenshot below is the main example i use. my point is, school very much goes against this idea i feel. really i'm kind of dreading scarlet and violet for this same reason cause i've heard rumors school will be a major element in it and i do not want to go through the beginning chunk of psmd again
honestly, the little to no use of the school for shenanigans makes me wonder how boring of schools the writers went to. like come on i'm sure at least ONE schoolyard fight broke out... my school experience has been pretty boring mostly and even i remember in like 5th grade they wouldn't let you take plastic water bottles outside cause of the bottle flipping challenge. where's my episode where something like that happens.
Oh, I'll never argue that though. SM did a vastly better job at building the world of Alola and making its characters feel alive. That said though, they weren't the most exciting bunch of characters ever (that Ultra Guardians schtick got old reeeealy fast,) and being confined to one little island most of the time isn't too exciting in and of itself. And I've heard (and seen through the SM series, LOL,) that island life in general gets boring pretty quick.
Idk , I don't think there were any hints at all. I guess her mom not being there can be considered that, but we're used to characters before SM having only one parent. It was a bit odd, but since the show never really brought any attention to it. Viewers would just assume she is one of those main characters that only have one parent.
this is a nice take and all but i managed to fucking misread ohana as obama and for a moment i was VERY confused
I don't know about everyone else, but I hated how Lana got her Z-Crystal through her Trial. The anime has a lot of undeserved moments, but this one was quite cheap.
This is why I wish at least one of the Alola gang goal was a trial captain.
