How is it subjective to say he deserved this flygon when he literally battled hard to obtain it?
Because Ash deserved the focus more and pay attention to my wording I'm speaking from the chronological timeline. I am not talking about Ash getting Flygon at least explicitly which I'll explain.
The focus should've been all about Ash. It should've been Ash battling a Pokemon and he catches it as a reward. No instead they made this entirely about Go catching something.
So in a way Go was selfish. Helping someone to benefit you is selfish. Sure maybe that wasn't the intention of the writer but given the insane Go focus he gets in comparison to Ash, do you think I trust they were trying to kill to birds with one stone, helping Ash anpd catching a Pokemon.
That will always be my issue with Go. He cares about catching more than anything else. He won't stand back and think "maybe my friend needs help perhaps I should concede the capture to Ash to get him out of his funk.
But of course this had to be all about Go and lumping Ash into this mess. When Go should've been alone helping other people and catching Flygon in that way, not to screw Ash over.
What other criteria should be there? Go earned his capture.
And I said that, due to plot, yes Go deserved it because he was the only one who did anything. And the more important point because of plot Go would've caught it even if he didn't deserve it. But then of course what would that mean. It's nonsensical. There is no "doesn't deserve" it.
And yes he deserves this level of focus coz he's a damn CO PROTAGONIST.
No he doesn't. Ash deserves at least equal focus but Ash can't because this is the Go show and because Go's goal is to catch every damn thing, most episodes have to be about a Go.
And I get it Ash isn't marketable, he's not hot in the market, he's not marketing Pokemon Go and "gotta catch em all"
But what is Ash doing? He's battling in the PWC. And we can't get ONE single damn episode of Ash training and bonding with his Pokemon for most of the episodes, instead he's relegated to really only battles.
And I get all you Go fans don't think the battling/training/bonding crap is interesting at all but I don't see how the mass amount of captures is more interesting.
This episode was supposed to be this way to show how ash inspires people, how his strategies can be unique and how he is dealing with a loss and being rusty.
Ash doesn't derserve to be treated like this just to aid someone else's goal at his expense. Go could've got Flygon without highlighting Ash as a failure just to resolve his issue with a "good feel pep talk" when what should've snapped at Ash out of it is actually succeding in battle while getting a verbal slap across the face by his Pokemon, friends, opponents.
But I get it they've done this before, an umpteenth amount of time. What the hell is one more? Of which will be forgotten next series where we'll get another one of these stupid plots.
Gosh you people will never be satisfied
No I'm not happy about Ash failing constantly and creating this stupid plot of Ash being afraid to battle normally just because he lost to a trainer higher ranked than him with a baby Pokemon.
All just to set up a plot to prop up Go.
No I'm not happy that the producers/writers decided that Go's goal was far more important than Ash's goal that they forced Ash to fail just so Go can succeed.
And what does Ash get for all this Go propping?
"Cheer up buddy, there's always next time."
Oh I am.......SO......HAPPY.
But I get it, the show isn't about Ash any more in the context of actually getting treated fairly or hell as an equal.
And all I can do is ultimately accept it, because I had to be stuck in the Go universe.
God my alternate universe self must be super happy about the Ash training/bonding episode with Riolu and Farfetch'd in the universe where Ash's focus was more balanced/equal.
How do I get to living in that universe? Oh I am stuck in this one? Oh well.