Blue Saturday
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it doesn't matter what formula they use
it doesn't matter what formula they use
Let’s be honest for a second: DP is a good season because people put on their nostalgia goggles and always think about the league, Paul and Infernape when talking about it. The 1 year gap between the 7th and 8th gym, Brock being insufferable, the deteriorating filler quality or the blandness of most gym battles is getting conveniently forgotten.I mean the old formula has it's flaws but let's not act that they didn't give us some of the best series in the franchise. Like DP. But old formula or not. If the shows writing isn't good, it doesn't matter what formula they use
Looking back, unironically dragging a series out 191 episodes just to have your MC lose at Top 4 to an unknown, have your other male MC have the character and personality of wet wood and have your girl companion's five item fetch quest extended to 10 stops with no real long-standing character-based development or narrative for any of them while copy-pasting the same general episode skeleton over and over for 50-80 episodes is nasty work.Let’s be honest for a second: DP is a good season because people put on their nostalgia goggles and always think about the league, Paul and Infernape when talking about it. The 1 year gap between the 7th and 8th gym, Brock being insufferable, the deteriorating filler quality or the blandness of most gym battles is getting conveniently forgotten.
Not to mention the padding episodes often being far more interchangable than modern ones, with COTD and TR spamming, and only one character return to look forward to instead of many.Let’s be honest for a second: DP is a good season because people put on their nostalgia goggles and always think about the league, Paul and Infernape when talking about it. The 1 year gap between the 7th and 8th gym, Brock being insufferable, the deteriorating filler quality or the blandness of most gym battles is getting conveniently forgotten.
No DP is a good season because it's a good season. Yeah there are some flaws like the ones you mentioned. But people aren't liking it because "nostalgia goggles".Let’s be honest for a second: DP is a good season because people put on their nostalgia goggles and always think about the league, Paul and Infernape when talking about it. The 1 year gap between the 7th and 8th gym, Brock being insufferable, the deteriorating filler quality or the blandness of most gym battles is getting conveniently forgotten.
You’re free to like DP. But having a 1 year long break between the 7th and 8th gym is not some small flaw, it’s objectively one of the worst mistakes to happen in the entire anime. People are more than happy to criticize BW for the terrible Decolara Island arc, which at least was shorter happened after the important stuff.No DP is a good season because it's a good season. Yeah there are some flaws like the ones you mentioned. But people aren't liking it because "nostalgia goggles".
Tbh the gap is overstated since there was still a lot of stuff happening with evolutions, contests, HGSS promos, and TGYou’re free to like DP. But having a 1 year long break between the 7th and 8th gym is not some small flaw, it’s objectively one of the worst mistakes to happen in the entire anime. People are more than happy to criticize BW for the terrible Decolara Island arc, which at least was shorter happened after the important stuff.
Exactly, it's not like ash and co we're just standing aroundTbh the gap is overstated since there was still a lot of stuff happening with evolutions, contests, HGSS promos, and TG
Really one of the biggest strong points of the show since lessening the formula is the fact it's allowed to be character driven. The protagonists aren't just reactive to COTD or TR causing all the schenanighans and are allowed to do drive stories on their own. It's quite cathartic seeing the height of Ash's role every episode be something other than "Pikachu Thunderbolt" on Team Rocket for the billionth time.If the old formula returns, I hope the pacing is at least similar to Kanto and BW. There is no reason for a badge quest to drag out 100+ episodes especially now where the anime is becoming less reliant on promoting the newest games and generation.
If I’m being honest, yea, I’d take that over the home base format. Sure such a thing worked for Alola in which it worked with the theme of Alola’s culture, but in Journeys, it just made the world feel smaller and inorganic. At least with the old format the world felt alive and expansive.Y'all really want gym battles, early route shitmon bird&first stage starter, "COTD #5906043 Satoshi and co. walking through a forest" and cute waifu girl companion with no goal back as the formula.
Watch Satoshi lose to Dande than send his Pokemon to the Sakuragi lab just to go to SV-land and find another "home base" to stay around akin to Melemele/Kuchiba.
Tbh the gap is overstated since there was still a lot of stuff happening with evolutions, contests, HGSS promos, and TG
Hey they gotta promote PoGo and Let's Go, as well as their poster child for those games.Even then I could live without a Badge Quest if the Gym Leaders get to show up even without Ash battling them.
I'm less bothered by the lack of a Badge Quest in PM2019 than I am the Galar Gym Leaders being shafted for no reason...
Honestly, I still say that for what they were going for, they should have just brought in Elaine as the co-protagonist rather than just inventing an OC for no reason.Hey they gotta promote PoGo and Let's Go, as well as their poster child for those games.
Not to mention that this home base is apparently too roomy that Ash's Pokemon go MIA in many episodes for no reason.I'm not opposed to the home base formula but it also has its drawbacks. Going on a journey worked because, like the games, it was the ultimate kid's fantasy. You got to leave home, see different sights, and take down corruption. However, that formula had the drawback of having certain generic stories like getting lost in the woods, an episode about a snowy area, not to mention how at times it could be a little odd how problems don't get fixed until the heroes happen to arrive. Also, it could take a long time to get to certain towns and cities.
The home base formula makes it so that the heroes can just go to a place without the in between stuff but it removes a very important aspect of Pokemon, something even Pokemon Go had, which is travelling. Not to mention, this formula caused the Galar Gym leaders to get the shaft