Hanto
Water Addiction
Hi there everyone.
We all know that after their respective saga previous girl companion got some really good team boosts and goal achievements.
Misty received Gyarados in Chronicles and got ability to mega evolve it prior to SM, became the Cerulean city gym leader and even taught her Psyduck to use water moves properly. May evolved her Eevee into Glaceon and got the second place at Wallace Cup.
Iris not only got Gible (and Goodra offscreen), but evolved fully Axew and acquired the title of Unova regional champion.
We've got all these power-, glow- and level ups in the 1-3 episode for each girl. However, Dawn got the most screentime out of all female companions after DP... But still feels pretty lackluster.
Yeah, her Quilava evolved in special that seemed like cheap ripoff of "Following the Maiden's voyage" with Ariados stuff and damsel in distress situation. And that's all!
Dawn's amount of screentime in BW was enormous comparing to Misty and Dawn, but it was quantity over quality.
She didn't advance as coordinator at all, didn't participate in Pokemon Musical, just was... there to be defeated by Iris with no impact on goal or character of former girl (in contrast with May's appearance in DP Cynthia was the one who inspired Iris to work out her and Dragonite relationships).
In Jorneys Dawn just shows off with Piplup (that used Bubblebeam instead of newly learned Hydro Pump) and hangs out with Chloe. That's all! No new evolutions (Lopunny or Typhlosion), no new team members (Galarian Rapidash or Edlegoss, for example), no mention of her progress as Coordinator, while Iris in one episode became Champion, got new team changes, battled Ash and even impacted his Happynite's development, helping it to learn Dragon Meteor.
Now Dawn will appear again in the so called space-time arc just to be Cynthia's maid of honor (like in BW) and walking BDSP advertising.
Legendary pokemon plots have nothing with Dawn and her personal development and instead of showing her growth we should watch some our dimension and parallel one's Dawns shenanigans.
She is not irreplaceable here, her role easily could be played by Barry/Professor Rowan/Riley of other significant trainers from DP games.
And despite doing absolutely nothing in 2 episodes of JN (and possibly next 2 also) she already got a long end of stick, starring in 4 episodes of current saga. Yes, technically Korrina got the same amount of episodes, but she was deeply integrated in the subplot of Ash-Bea rivalry and Lucario's "development".
I'm not a Dawn hater, but would rather see May/Serena/Lana/Mallow/Lilly got their screentime and growth instead of that dull cameos of DP co-protagonist.
Are you ok with Dawn handling in Journeys (and maybe BW2)? Happy to see her in 4 episodes with no clear significance to the plot or prefer to see one solid episode with Dawn's growth and team changes ala Iris VS Ash or Korrina VS Ash?
We all know that after their respective saga previous girl companion got some really good team boosts and goal achievements.
Misty received Gyarados in Chronicles and got ability to mega evolve it prior to SM, became the Cerulean city gym leader and even taught her Psyduck to use water moves properly. May evolved her Eevee into Glaceon and got the second place at Wallace Cup.
Iris not only got Gible (and Goodra offscreen), but evolved fully Axew and acquired the title of Unova regional champion.
We've got all these power-, glow- and level ups in the 1-3 episode for each girl. However, Dawn got the most screentime out of all female companions after DP... But still feels pretty lackluster.
Yeah, her Quilava evolved in special that seemed like cheap ripoff of "Following the Maiden's voyage" with Ariados stuff and damsel in distress situation. And that's all!
Dawn's amount of screentime in BW was enormous comparing to Misty and Dawn, but it was quantity over quality.
She didn't advance as coordinator at all, didn't participate in Pokemon Musical, just was... there to be defeated by Iris with no impact on goal or character of former girl (in contrast with May's appearance in DP Cynthia was the one who inspired Iris to work out her and Dragonite relationships).
In Jorneys Dawn just shows off with Piplup (that used Bubblebeam instead of newly learned Hydro Pump) and hangs out with Chloe. That's all! No new evolutions (Lopunny or Typhlosion), no new team members (Galarian Rapidash or Edlegoss, for example), no mention of her progress as Coordinator, while Iris in one episode became Champion, got new team changes, battled Ash and even impacted his Happynite's development, helping it to learn Dragon Meteor.
Now Dawn will appear again in the so called space-time arc just to be Cynthia's maid of honor (like in BW) and walking BDSP advertising.
Legendary pokemon plots have nothing with Dawn and her personal development and instead of showing her growth we should watch some our dimension and parallel one's Dawns shenanigans.
She is not irreplaceable here, her role easily could be played by Barry/Professor Rowan/Riley of other significant trainers from DP games.
And despite doing absolutely nothing in 2 episodes of JN (and possibly next 2 also) she already got a long end of stick, starring in 4 episodes of current saga. Yes, technically Korrina got the same amount of episodes, but she was deeply integrated in the subplot of Ash-Bea rivalry and Lucario's "development".
I'm not a Dawn hater, but would rather see May/Serena/Lana/Mallow/Lilly got their screentime and growth instead of that dull cameos of DP co-protagonist.
Are you ok with Dawn handling in Journeys (and maybe BW2)? Happy to see her in 4 episodes with no clear significance to the plot or prefer to see one solid episode with Dawn's growth and team changes ala Iris VS Ash or Korrina VS Ash?