Except, for now, the thing they want is no bridges so far. That’s the entire point of having a new show without Ash as the protagonist, trying something new free of the previous baggage, specially when said baggage includes characters the writing team created and turned into a cute background prop when they had no idea what to do with her. Honestly, if Chloe were the protagonist, it would raise more questions than it would answer for me, and the audience.
Dephender said:
She balanced out Ash and Goh, her being more of a grounded and reserved character would've worked well with their dynamic if she was actually part of the group more than once in a blue moon, and her goal of self-discovery seemed like an interesting concept. At least that's my take on her.
That makes more sense now. It felt Koharu/Chloe was meant to be consider a 'main character' with Goh and Ash, but then during planning they choose to go with the dual protagnoist route and Koharu/Chloe went more to the secondary role (at least in the early episodes)
Where did that quote come from again? It sounds familiar, but I can't place where it's from. It would explain quite a bit about how Chloe felt pretty neglected if the decision to make the series more about just Ash and Goh was decided late in development.
As much as I wish Chloe had captured more Pokemon, I think having her catch every Eevee evolution would have been overkill. Most of her focus episodes were already about her and Eevee meeting up with other trainers with Eevee's evolutions. Having her want to capture all of them on top of that would have really hammered the notion of Chloe being around just for Eevee evolution even more. Given how Journeys had an issue with showcasing Pokemon and giving them screentime, even with Ash's Pokemon, I think giving Chloe eight more Pokemon would have just led to them being ignored rather than making better use of them or giving them more distinct personalities. Plus, wanting to capture eight Pokemon doesn't really seem like much of an impressive goal compared to something like Goh wanting to capture every Pokemon.
From what I heard, that is exactly what happened.
Her relationship with Eevee is supposed to represent the different possible paths her future holds for her, just like Eevee's own possible evolutionary paths.
Adamant/Dephender is the source. He written it on Serebii forums. According to what he said, it comes from an interview with showrunners.
Well, the new quote confirms that they underused her only because they wanted the show to be about Satoshi/Gou bromance. This won't be the case anymore.
I thought it might have been from an older interview or something that would have been on Dogasu's website instead of more recent. That is a bit surprising, but I don't know if anything else from that interview stood out.
Even with that in mind, I don't think that they'd suddenly shift gears and make Chloe the new lead of the next series. Chloe still didn't even have a goal by the end of the series. She was still tied to the marketing around Journeys. Not nearly as much as Ash and Goh were obviously, but she would be included in official artwork from time to time. If they wanted to have a clean slate for the next series, having brand new characters with brand new Pokemon would make more sense than having Chloe and Eevee being the new leads, especially if they do plan on having new leads with new starter Pokemon going forward too.
