Well, every shipping has it's uniqueness...
I'm already thinking what the writers are planning to play around this time...
Just look at Clemont, he's got the potential to blow things up (which could eventually be good news (or bad)) to this shipping potential...
P.S. When is the last time the fandom is this hyped to a certain shipping potential BEFORE a new series started?
Yeah... and said uniqueness will billow out like a hot air balloon ready to sail the skies of the shipping community.
Well, well, speaking of balloons, aren't you all filling too much air here? After all, it's still the first episode. I say we marinate this for a couple of months, then we can discuss. Unless of course, a major shipping moment would rampage every single Ash shipping thread.
Whatever. Anyway, I got a feeling that this will a Pokeshipping nuke, considering the childhood friend connection with our guy here with the new girl. Maybe that won't help at all, due to his airheadedness. But then, the girl's closing in the gap, as I see it, and I think it's her latent, dormant feelings at work. No surprise from a childhood friend.
When I first about the new series (and the new girl for that matter), my brain screamed "NOOOOOOOOO!!! Not another fly in the spider's web! At least let the mosquito come back!" What I meant to say was, there's a new girl in town and I was disappointed because none of the previous girls are going to make a comeback (especially Dawn, since I am a Pearlshipper). And then, part of me screamed "Dawn clone! Dawn clone!! DAWN CLONE!!!" out of sheer anger and such. Hopefully, that won't be the case. As you can see, I am torn between this newly-inflated balloon and the other one that's beginning to fall to the ground, the one that got all the hype about 6 years ago. What started as a nevermet ship between a female game sprite and an animation protagonist became one of the biggest ships in the history of fandom.
Yes, I can see the potential of this ship going that way too. The idea struck me like a sniper bullet. Curse that fanart!
Enough with the subliminal message, let's take a look at the similarities at face value:
1. Seems like Advance all over again! We got 3 pubescent kids and a toddler.
2. Girl companion is a new trainer, like the 2nd and 3rd one before her! Time for some mentoring, courtesy of the dense ****er!
Feel free to- ah, forget about the things listed above.
So this ship got a name yet? Or are we gonna wait for a couple of episodes before doing said ritual?