I wish you all Amourshippers a most Happy Valentine's Day. I know it's not Valentine's Day in most places anymore, but nonetheless I desire to give these thoughts.
Last year we have received a lovely Valentine's Day poster of Ash and Serena, filled with heart-shaped balloons and shojo bubbles, with Serena looking at Ash in full awe. This year, we received two episodes filled with an abundance of hints (XY059 was not disappointing to me), a very possible crack at Ash's denseness, and astonishing development for Serena. I just looked at the ending of the last episode and wow: The walk to the dock, the Serenazo,* the intense wailing, the seconds of many flashbacks, the cutting of the hair, and her triumphant recovery with a brand new look, equipped with the ribbon that Ash had given to her as a gift. A new Serena is born, and she, Amourshipping, and the show itself now has so much promise. Serena has now become my favorite female character, and XY has strong potential to become the best series this show has ever had. Writers, congratulations. You have made me lose a little distrust on you, please don't screw it up!
In all honesty, we Amourshippers couldn't have asked for anything better. If they had overblown it and made Amourshipping canon right now, as Science and a few others have mentioned, it would be jumping the gun. However, in a way it may not be completely a bad idea to make Amourshipping canon before the ending (if there will be one). I certainly don't want it to be canon now, but if it was a little bit before the ending I wouldn't mind (though I doubt that would happen). As I have mentioned in the other thread a long time ago, an ideal couple would two people helping each other grow and reach their goals. We can kind of see Ash and Serena do this already with in trying to become Kalos League Champion and Kalos Queen, respectively. There's no reason why they cannot continue supporting each other if Amourshipping becomes canon (again, I doubt this will happen, but bear with me here). Perhaps if they manage to reach their goals they would realize that they could have not reached their goal without each other, and get to a point where they do not want to lose each other. It would be at this moment that Ash would like Serena (after much buildup in all the episodes before), and would want to continue traveling with her to reach a goal of winning the Tournament of Champions and ultimately becoming a Pokemon Master; while Serena could move on to winning the title of something like "World Queen", which would be the Tripokalon/Showcase equivalent of Miss Universe. All this would take place at the Gen VII region, and then comes the ending.
Eh, perhaps all that sounds too good to be true. But the show still has so much promise, and I'm happy for that. I just want to see development in my man, Ash, and perhaps Serena might become part of that. I'm still cautiously pessimistic, but I hope for the best.
*I can't give anything for Valentine's Day, as I'm not a talented artist like some people in this forum, nor do I desire to write any fanfics or make any AMV's (as they take a while and won't likely end well IMO). However, I'm considering a proposal that we give Serena's unfortunate dismal debut the nickname of Serenazo. The name is pronounced like it would be in Spanish (Seh-reh-nah-zo), and roughly means "the Serena blow". This is named after the Maracanazo, which to put it shortly was the biggest match in soccer history, where Uruguay defeated huge favorites Brazil in their own stadium after being down by a goal. This caused Uruguay to win the World Cup, and was the darkest moment in all of Brazil's soccer history. I feel that the humiliation that Serena and Fennekin suffered during her performance would be like the Tripokalon equivalent to that. And yet her very darkest and most painful moment is what caused her to make such a spectacular change of which I am so glad I was able to see. It was that moment that made me glad to have Serena as my favorite Pokegirl. So what do you think about it?