No, Project Mew was pointless and so was shoving a self-insert pokemon go character.
Bingo. How in the world do you have two characters who are actively involved in the Pokémon League but let two characters introduce Contests to her back to back only for her to do nothing related to it? I would've been okay with her replacing him if she expressed interests in Gym's instead of forcing another Eevee into the series, they could have just used hersHence why I think it would’ve been good and easier if Koharu was set up to be the next protagonist after Ash.
Depending on what they want to do with Riko, if they wanted someone who was inspired by Ash to go on her own Journey, Koharu would’ve fit that description nicely and it would’ve given her the desperately needed character development she needed to get. Plus, with Eevee.
Goh isn't a sef insert.No, Project Mew was pointless and so was shoving a self-insert pokemon go character.
I genuinely thought koharu seeing Ash battle with Leon was gonna inspire her. It sucks because evee had copycat, which is such a versatile move to have I'm battles.Bingo. How in the world do you have two characters who are actively involved in the Pokémon League but let two characters introduce Contests to her back to back only for her to do nothing related to it? I would've been okay with her replacing him if she expressed interests in Gym's instead of forcing another Eevee into the series, they could have just used hers
Even Cynthia could've had a chat with her during the special
Hopefully they don't force in Riko having a Eevee. This is the first time a female companion (well on screen) is challenging Gyms so hopefully they don't mess it up if true.
Same. She was the only pokegirl outside of Dawn who showed up in person to see the damn battle with her own eyes. And without Goh too. Why go all the way there to see it happen when it wouldn’t have had any meaningful effect on you?I genuinely thought koharu seeing Ash battle with Leon was gonna inspire her. It sucks because evee had copycat, which is such a versatile move to have I'm battles.
But no, her making flower arrangement with leafeon and going to the circus was more important. Two episodes where she really didnt contribute much at all
The question though is why does Goh make people seethe?
Your favorite characterWho is Goh?
What pissed me off the most about Goh was him getting shoved into Ash’s PWC matches pre-Ultra Class. Him being present was fine but they dedicated so much screentime to Goh during a battle-focused episode for Ash. If the problem was filling in time due to the battles being 2 VS 2 at best, why didn’t they just make them 3 VS 3? It made it seem like the writers just remembered that 3 VS 3 existed so they made the Ultra Class Battles 3 on 3(which blows my mind why Marnie & Drasna was handled the way they were).
Fortunately Iris got the best treatment saved for her.Here's my ultimate answer:
"Bleh."
Here's the answer that should have been:
Dawn was the last good companion who was an equal to Ash and wasn't trying to devalue him...which she doesn't deserve that honor anymore after Journeys did her super dirty. By default, it's either May or Misty, but neither appeared, so...
I could have mentioned her, but, like I said somewhere else, she's just not allowed to be seen winning a battle on the screen that her being a Champion in this continuity felt more like pity for her. That's what irked me.Fortunately Iris got the best treatment saved for her.
Chloe is awesome! Her and Goh were great last friends of Ash.
Honestly what bothered me about the Lana thing is that dawn legit told her first about evee just staying the way it is like piplup. So her being there was ultimately pointless. Heck even Ash, you know the character whose partner main point is that he refused to evolve and was literally RIGHT THERE, could of talked to her about jtChloe Timeline:
1) Was extremely indifferent about Pokemon, despite the fact even her whole family was into them and her own dad was a(n anime-only) professor.
2) Her own school friends assumed she liked Pokemon because her father was a researcher into them. She was all "hmm..." about it.
3) She started to become more endearing because she was connecting with her family's Yamper as if she actually owned it. It's thanks to her family (and the two male protagonists I guess) that she was starting to search for something.
Everything up until that point was very good with her. She was actually eclipsing Ash and Goh because at least she was struggling in a goal that wasn't tied to contests or fighting, so it was bona fide pure character development (that Ash and Goh lacked themselves, as their character development was just getting awards). I said this before that she was basically a discount version of Sonia because of all the similarities she had with her, but still, she was the best thing the saga had...
At least...
Until...
It came along...:
4) A random not-evolving Eevee from a nearby institute befriends her, indirectly pushing Yamper aside to the Shadow Realm, utterly derails her independence to look for something for herself by becoming a full-time Eevee cab taxi driver to solve its anti-evolution issues (let's see, she met a despondent "bullied" classmate with a Glaceon, two circus performers who evolved their Eevee all wrong into Jolteon and Flareon, Erika the background Leafeon character (the episode wasn't even about Chloe), that surfer dude's Vaporeon, her own Dawn-like copycat princess from Johto with Espeon and Umbreon (little rant here, but they could have made Sakura return with her Espeon), and lastly performance-to-contest girl Serena and her Sylveon...was all this a "try everything" thing for Chloe, because some of the things are things she can't possibly do or wouldn't be caught dead doing despite trying them for a bit), and she never once meets a single person who didn't have an Eeveelution for a partner (out of sheer coincidence every time). Every new thing (except for the rare Galarian Ponyta episode) absolutely needed someone to have an Eevee. Otherwise, it wasn't a "Chloe" episode anymore (or else she was just a third wheel available for hi-jinks).
5) Her long road meeting too many Eevee people ends with Lana, who tells her that her own Eevee is fine as is, driving the whole anti-evolution point moot as Chloe's Eevee chooses to bea marketing ployan Eevee (can't have Pikachu without Eevee at this peak in the franchise! As Lana's already proved).C'mon, girl. Espeon is the best Eevee. Everyone knows that.
6) The whole "look for something you want" ends with her ironically wanting to be like her dad while also vaguely leaving a future as a contest girl anyway. Her dad was disconnected from all the Eevee episodes but was just around mostly for a mission control-like role for the boys.
Things went down for her when she was forced an Eevee and then the universe proceeded to put her on an Eevee trail. It's like she was incapable of connecting with people unless they had an Eevee, so she looked indirectly dependent on her goal-seeking. She wasn't actively seeking something, but rather, everything just conveniently fell into her lap...Eevee's lap, that is. Or, let her own Yamper. Suddenly, her episodes wouldn't certainly revolve around more Yamper or even dogs.
(If the writers had the forethought of making Serena earn Eevee much earlier (they admitted they didn't think Sylveon would get so popular before Serena got hers, you'd bet it'd be more important than even her own starter and we'd suddenly see all the other Eevee show up across Kalos. And we all know Lana's Eevee was more of a strange afterthought because of Let's Go.)
I wouldn't even call Chloe a Pokegirl. She was barely around. In fact, why not have her around at all times, even with her Eevee. At least she wouldn't really be too dependent on having episodes all about Eevee.
what bothered me about the Lana
Exactly! A glorified COTDher being there was ultimately pointless.