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Yep. Shudo's spin on the franchise was fairly unconventional and thought-provoking. His planned ending was to have the whole thing be an embellishment of Ash's real childhood, where Pokemon were just a game or a figment of his imagination... That would have been deep, telling viewers something...

Regarding Dawn, I see where you're coming from now. She did lose a fair amount of times and rose above it. But the way she overcome those difficulties wasn't deep in my opinion. To describe it in one word: Daijoubu. I don't find that relatable because real life is often more complicated than that.

Too bad that depth is something that can only be measured using real-life standards. Not that it matters since getting emo over losing the world series... is egotistical rather than deep. To be fair to Dawn, her mom overshadowing her does have some depth to it. But it's light compared to Brock...

Livelihood, lol. We're talking about kids who do whatever they feel like doing. SM demonstrates that fairly well, but it's always been the case. Getting emo over a loss is something that a good parent would mock. This video comes to mind (it's in Hebrew, but the context is loud and clear).

Yeah, no. Being emo over a loss (let alone in an out of character way) is not deep in my book. Pokemon competitions are not serious business.

I think that SM020's depth was undermined by how quickly Litten got over its grief. And I get the feeling that this plot will never be referenced again.

The deepest storyline was Mewtwo's (the movie, prequel and sequel). Sadly, it had little to do with the actual show. I think that my second choice would be the Entei movie (loss of parents and a child's grief), then Larvitar's story (the loss of a mother from birth, again with a connection to...