Oh sorry lol. I was just saying that since for the general consensus, AG isn't talked about a lot and is mostly forgotten.
I hope you're excited for the Piplup episode, then. Can't have enough Piplup.
I love this so much, the only thing I would change is I think Go's friend won't acknowledge whether he is aware of Ho-oh or not, it will seem like he knows what it is, but he won't say such and anything concrete about his knowledge of it will be left ambiguous. Eugene and Norty will tell of how Ho-oh was upset with humans, and just while they are going over how important Ho-oh is to the balance of the natural world, we will hear Go's smartphone say "excellent" in the background as Go captures Ho-oh on his first toss. Don't worry about Ho-oh though, Go's brainwashing Pokeballs will rid the poor thing of its unique traits, memories, and any feelings of duty it had, and it will happily enjoy its indefinite sentence to the Sakuragi purgatory as a mindless trophy.
According to bulbapedia it appeared in a flashback in early DP, if you want to count that.
If you're referring just to continuity, then you're giving early BW and SM a whole lot of credit for nothing that PM hasn't done. XY is the worst offender.
That one specifically? It did exactly what you'd expect from the episode's description, which we've known about for around two months. News at eleven: Go will catch a lot of Pokemon.
Wait, what? Continuity doesn't just mean references to past episodes. They have completely contradicted the set up for capturing new Pokemon that has been relevant to the entire series to date, replacing it with mobile game mechanics. Direct and significant contradictions represent a departure from continuity that is far greater than any BW or XY had. BW and XY at least felt like the same world, whereas this series is some bizarre hybrid 80% Pokemon Go, 20% Pokemon anime. Nothing in BW or XY made past events make little sense in light of new events like the new catching mechanic does towards most historic catches and even training. Nothing in BW or XY hypocritically made something okay that was taught as a lesson multiple times as not okay, like catching tons of Pokemon for selfish reasons without considering the Pokemon's point of view. You could say PM has more references than BW or XY did, but even then, these references are extremely shallow and limited, and borderline contradictory to the point of having essentially no value. Continuity envelops a lot more than just references, and in that regard, PM is quite easily the worst so far.
Are you really justifying the context of the present day anime with stuff that happened 22+ years ago? Yes, I won't deny that OS-Kanto had a lot of similar moments but it had other weird shit happening as well that can be credited to Early Installment Weirdness. But 22 years down the line, repeating the same mistakes that were rare (if not non-existent) is quite jarring and contradictory.
Except you know... some of his captures literally tried to murder him beforehand (Pinsir and Beedrill) but they automatically became friends with him? One would have expected to see at least a bit of friction between trainer and Pokemon but judging by next week's preview, it seems like Scyther will obey Gou without any problem. Remember when Charizard was so powerful that it disobeyed Ash because it thought the trainer wasn't strong enough to command it?
