I do want to be fair after what happened with SuMo, though. It's still really, really early. Most past series' hadn't even reached a Gym by this episode.
I definitely don't think the new series had made a great first impression though.
I'm pretty sure most past series have reached a gym by this episode, looking at the first gym/frontier challenge/island trial of all past series:
Kanto - 5th episode
Orange Islands - 5th episode
Johto - 15th episode
Hoenn - 16th episode (Technically 3rd episode)
Battle Frontier - 4th episode
Sinnoh - 16th episode (Technically 15th episode)
Unova - 5th episode
Kalos - 5th episode (Technically 1st episode)
Alola - 9th episode
So unless this new series will be 4 years like AG or DP, we're gonna be behind schedule for gyms pretty soon
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