Well...she's preppy now, it seems. XD That was by far the biggest change there, methinks. But after all, psychic and preppy both start with a p, no? *shot* Knowing some dialogue would be nice though. 'After three years of standing here on the spot waiting for another challenger worthy of my skills to appear... I decided that I REALLY needed a change of clothing. I mean, I stunk worse than a... smelly thing. So my old costume is in the wash, and I got this from some market at half-price. Well, actually, for free, I persuaded the person to give it to me. Hey, I can do those jedi mind tricks too. What's that you say? Oh yeah, Pokemon. Blah blah welcome to my gym now let's battle.' [/randomnonsabrinathing]
Karen is probably the least liked, from what I've seen (and I've seen a lot XD), less people seem to mind Sabrina's change terribly much. =P Some people thought a dark-type user like her would have a less...colourful garp like that and so forth, IMO it isn't so bad.
Now I'm thinking about the 'what if' situation in which someone's come into Misty's gym, beaten all of the random trainers there, and depends a battle with her for the badge...and then she looks at the challenger and starts smiling like that, or just turns around having already been smiling like that. A related 'what if' is what if the challenger was a guy. XD
...I think I'm starting to see what my thought patterns may be like in two days time, heh. XD Oh well, hurrah for spurs of thought of random whee.
That is an alternative, yes, if a longer one. That requires some money as well. Or you could hire someone to just stand there and translate for you. That may not be the best idea though. XD