RafaSceptile
Well-Known Member
I can't believe I would ever need to talk in the Amourshipping thread but here we are.Lol, why do I get the impression that these rebuttals are to perceptions that were probably meant to be half-jokes.
Obviously Serena didn't worship Ash, but she also bantered a lot less than other Pokegirls. Early sassy Serena would have been so great. It's not that Serena being kind, nurturing, sweet, and polite aren't amazing qualities, nor the fact that her interactions with Ash were always so supportive and overall healthy, but there's an entire side of Ash who's totally snarky and hilarious (see MPM 02 with Misty). It would have been great if Serena did banter more with Ash. Their relationship would have felt more complete then.
I will say though, there was no need for Serena to go a full year of XY episodes before her goal finally got underway at XY060. The audience knew by episode 20 that she was interested in baking, fashion, and that 'girls should make themselves cute'. She could have learned about Showcases during the Pokevision episode, watched one by XY25, and by XY35-40 had her first Showcase. The problem was outside of those couple of focus episodes, Serena was largely just 'there' in the other episodes during the first year. It's why her crush became her defining feature, because her goal took quite a bit of time to get going.
However, I do disagree strongly with this notion that Serena had to struggle in her goal:
Considering Epicocity's negation of the lack of actual development during Serena's first year during a discussion in another thread, I wouldn't take them seriously for that argument.