Agreed, they're very existence in XY is just to kill time. Yup, exactly. The new writers should know theyre not the old ones who made Rocketto Dan lovable idiots. Instead they're written as plain idiots.
That's interesting to note. I'd say they certainly don't get defeated as fast, but as characters now, they're really boring. They feel like they're in episodes now to cut time.
She's older. This actually happened a couple of years ago, my parents don't ban me for stuff anymore, other than a couple of weeks ago my Xbox was taken for about 2 days