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Well if there’s one thing to take away from this it’s this; if Pidgeot can rejoin Ash’s team after 25 years, there’s hope yet for him to get Greninja again once the vine situation is dealt with in Kalos.

Truly it turns out Go was Ash’s greatest rival all along.

I personally hated Go’s goal of trying to capture everything and the capture sprees as it reduced the vast majority of those Pokémon to just being background fodder that are essentially just a box to be checked, not really giving much of a reason to care about their existence. For me, while...

That doesn’t really work as a rationale considering that only 2 female companions were gym leaders in the games. May and Dawn were player characters or NPCs yet that didn’t stop them from battling. Even Serena’s game counterpart battled but that didn’t translate to her anime self so it’s...

I mean, if anything, BW showed fun ways in which the female companion could get involved in competition outside of her goal. Heck, even Dawn got into the Hearthome tag battle tournament and the Junior Cup and that had nothing to do with Contests. It’s actually kind of a shame that the writers...

Having watched this episode with subs I’ve really gotta say that I’m absolutely loving this mini series. Whereas Journeys had felt so sterile and corporate, these episodes thus far feel so full of heart and soul. You really get to see Ash and Misty being so expressive in their interactions in a...

What’s funny is they introduced the function of being able to swap Pokémon on the fly with the Pokédex way back in the OS one time and then never actually used it, instead always having Ash go to a Pokémon Center to make a call to the professor he left his Pokémon with.

Not really sure how much discussion we can really get out of this but I see no reason why she wouldn’t like him so long as she’s written in character. Then again, had any 2 previous companions never met while with Ash and suddenly met while on their own and rubbed one another the wrong way at...

The problem there was they were trying to replicate his dynamic with Misty but it was forced due to Ash being an experienced trainer at that point. As for Serena, that’s the issue of overadjusting because then the character feels less like Ash’s equal and more like his cheerleader.

People hated Iris because she came across as a hypocrite always calling Ash a kid while doing kiddy things herself (though that’s more BW‘s fault for dumbing Ash down to the point that he’d be put in situations where he could be talked down to whether it be Iris or Trip). And even then, overly...

In this case, if that was their thought process, them playing it too safe caused that their dynamic together was too similar resulting in it being boring especially in a vacuum since they decided to have just the 2 of them most of the time. At very least, them being opposites in their approach...

The people from those days got older and realized how impractical it was especially when the writers could barely manage to juggle 6 Pokémon and any time he had more things got sloppy. Go on the other hand basically shined a spotlight on exactly why such a premise doesn’t work for a focal character.

Okay what you just described is a one-way street of how Ash influenced Go to be able to grow from the person he was to the person that he ended up as by the end of the series. That‘s having that Ash is an important influence in Go’s life, that’s not really chemistry as chemistry between...

While that may be the case with Ash needing someone else to bounce interactions off of, I found it didn’t work well with just Go. People say that they have good chemistry but for me, their interactions got pretty boring after a while because it just felt like Ash interacting with a smarter Ash...

With the franchise, I’ll definitely still be around playing the games. That part’s not gonna change. The anime though? I’ll have to see. I grew up with Ash and, while I got invested in the characters over the years, Ash was basically the glue that held it all together and kept things grounded...

Not in the least. Go was inconsistent in his character and quite the controversial character whose goal possibly gave the worst showing of Pokémon out of any character that the series has ever had as Ash’s co-star and especially jarring following how Pokémon were treated in SM. And meanwhile...

More like you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a hacker.

That poor class would be so lost the second he starts going into his battle jargon.

The dub made his voice even worse in the moments that he got overexcited about something and they raised the speed and pitch of it. Really made him out to be a machine rather than a ghost possessing a Pokédex.

Even his subconscious told him (and Ash for some reason)that via a nightmare.