dman_dustin
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I also wasn't a fan of how Ash found Nebby instead of Lillie. This is her major story from the games and they started it off with Ash. They could have at least found it together if they weren't going to let Lillie handle it, imo.
I disagree, because Nebby was never that important to Lillie to begin with. Nebby was at most a catalyst, a reason, an excuse, whatever you want to call it for what was going on with Lillie in the games.
Lillie was sick of her mother's behavior and likely treatment of Pokemon, as well as the way she was treated by her mother as well, as we later find out in the games, like a pet or a collection.
Lillie basically "snapped" so to speak and took Cosmog/Nebby from her mother and fled, it being one more Pokemon (probably also being the most important Pokemon to her mother given the Ultra Wormhole obsession) that her mother wouldn't have.
Lillie's character was never about Nebby, it was about her relationship with her mom and her own growth, being that she gives Nebby to the player character given that only the player character can truly bring out said Pokemon's potential (even if you want to argue, PLOT EXCUSE), and she went to Kanto to go out on her journey.
Quite frankly that story even with Nebby being the catalyst, just wouldn't work in the anime, given the story they are presenting. It would honestly come off more as pandering for the sake of pandering rather than be good writing.
If Lillie WAS written closer to her game counterpart then I could see the argument, but Lillie was not trapped at the Aether Paradise, and Lusamine wasn't experimenting on Cosmog, so shoving Cosmog/Nebby on her just for game's sake, is in my opinion bad writing.
At the very least, they gave a nod to the games, by having Lillie nickname Cosmog. But clearly as the anime has been written, Nebby/Cosmog would be better off with the Player Character of sorts, or in this case THE Main Protagonist...Ash, especially if Ash will ultimately share similar paths with the Player Character by using Solgaleo/Lunala in some fashion.