I’d personally argue that an 11 minute episode format doesn’t really work for a series like Pokémon even with its fillers. Usually that type of format is used with gag series in which the plot of the episode much less the order doesn’t really matter. Pokémon just isn’t that type of series as the feeling that this preview gives off is more reminiscent of Yo-Kai Watch humor as opposed to Pokémon’s.
In my experience of other shows that sometimes do 11-minute A & B stories and sometimes do 22-minute episodes, the staff are often not very well in touch when it comes to picking which stories deserve 22 minutes, so you end up with good but horribly rushed 11-minute plots you're longing to see get the full 22 minutes they deserve and excruciatingly boring 22-minute episodes that you desperately wish had been 11. With the way this series has been gping there is no doubt in my mind the same thing would happen here, even if in this particular instance it looks like they got it right. Although I still think that the stolen food one from 2 weeks ago should have been 11 minutes rather than 22.
Agreed. Sure this is basically a breather episode since it’s right between 2 plot based episodes but in all honesty, it’s really nothing more than a stepping stone to get to the actual good stuff.
