El Squibbonator
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Well, that's it I suppose. It sure didn't feel like the ending to a 25-year-long TV show. I expected a lot more gravitas.
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We can't say they walked back on Ash losing tournaments. I mean, they walking back would mean they make Ash lost another regional League after he win the Alola League.
The examples you mentioned are them being willing to change and adapt. That's the opposite to walk back.
Honestly, if they want to walk back, it's more likely they will use reboot/AU Ash as a protagonist. That way they could start from zero.
Agreed. This was pretty much down there with the ending to Game of Thrones in terms of how NOT to end a popular, long-running TV show.The conclusion to a 26 years old journey and MPM as a whole were an abomination and a spit in the face of old fans.
Can’t say I agree, they walked back on Ash always losing major tournaments (a status quo they heavily stood behind, that some fans also justified/defended), they walked back on Goh, making his captures more digestible overtime, along with his goal being modified to being more realistic.
Yeah, this screamed "we're still doing the reboot movies, guys!"Talk about hyperbole. Usually a finale has some kind of conclusion, this is literally how every between region episode plays out formulaically. It is perfectly reasonable to expect a series running over 25 years to have something better than whatever this was.
Its very clear that this episode was designed mainly because they don’t have complete faith in retiring Ash and Team Rocket. Heck, they couldn’t even give up Pikachu being a part of the main cast in the new series. The episode was serviceable in a vacuum, not as the conclusion to a show that spanned generations of Pokemon fans.