The writing for the rivals and villains is worse. Trip is a total dud and Team Plasma hasn't even debuted yet.
Paul, Galactic and Hunter J are definitely better than any rivals/villains BW has so far.
No it isn't, as far as I'm concerned I'm enjoying this rivalries more then the DP ones, besides Shinji but just because I like Shinji more that doesn't mean Shooti is bad, just like you and some other people say, that just stupid, I'm liking he has taken Cheren route, I like Cheren story ingame, I like that he has something else besides battling to him also(aka his hobby), which has played into the story with Oshawott development.
The team Plasma situation is unfornatunate, I still hope they can't reintroduce them but I doubt it will happen, obviously we know their plans since it had to be canceled.
For all we care, TV Tokyo might have told them, don't make any reference to those episodes AT ALL in the future, including, don't get Team Plasma ever in the plot again, that doesn't mean **** anyway.
Still aslong as the episodes are good, I can pass without Plasma, which fortunatly for me, since I don't dislike a good well written episode, just because one pokemon doesn't appear, I am liking most BW episodes.
I don't care for J really, I didn't dislike her but I could pass without her, certaintly better then having TR doing their crap every episode in DP, so I liked her in that sense.
The writing style is the same, the writing for the episodes, WRITING STYLE, I don't care if Team Plasma didn't appear, I'm talking about the writing style, how the episodes are handled, heck its even better now, we have less CotD and no TR, they once again improved like they have done since the first region.
Yes Johto writing was better, besides the amount of fillers and no evolutions, the gym battles weren't pity badges and the leagues was awesome, that is already a major improvement from Kanto.
Bottom line we have haters since the start of the region that won't change opinions, we have haters because of the Don Battle that dide a 360 and started hating the series, those things won't change.
Anyway like I said people doing this dumb threads with BW comparisions to other regions, when BW hasn't ended is just stupid, obviously people who hate the series now won't change opinions for a fact, not because of anything besides being crybabies or nostalgic about some old stuff.
I shouldn't even have voted anyway, I was not going to but I ended up doing it.