I think they're gone for good, at least now we have an arc revolving around Team Plasma and N.
And you don't think those episodes could be moved
into that arc? Has everyone forgotten what happened with that fishing episode?
They never said anything about retconning.
They said specifically that "they will change the scenario, as the episodes will appear in Season 16. They were not deleted, but moved and modified."
It also got retconned in another way. We know Ash and the group were in the building that Team Plasma attacked, but in the opening they are looking up at it.
Only Cilan was, actually, and how it's shown in the opening is in no way neccesarily how it'll happen in the episodes. If it was, Genesects would be flying around. XD
the episodes will be changed substantually I imagine if they are to happen.But afew scenes may stay the same like the hyperbeam scene.
Most things would stay the same, really. The major things changed would be the color of TR's uniform, dialogue from people like Looker, and (the biggest of all) the Team Plasma grunts.
Maybe they just added it because they liked the scene from the episode and since those episodes most likely won't air now, they chose to put the scene in the final opening of the Best Wishes series.
It's depressing how many people seem to
WANT the episodes to stay unaired, so even when indication of them airing happens, the possibility gets denied.
Seriously, if the episodes were really banned/cancelled,
WHY reference them in an opening and remind people of them? That would be a
DUMB thing to do.