Frontier Locations + Ash = confusion?

[HoennMaster]

Frontier Locations Question/Problem

So I have read in tons of places that when Ash left Pallet Town he went to the nearest Frontier Facility. He went to the Battle Factory but according to the map in the Pallet Town episode the Battle Tower is closer so if the writers planned that they why did he wait so long to go there? Any opinions?

 

[~Flareon~]

Yes. I think so. Ash has already defeated Anabel in the Battle Tower the second time because the first time he lost and now he gets the Ability Symbol.

 

[CyberCubed]

Yes. I think so. Ash has already defeated Anabel in the Battle Tower the second time because the first time he lost and now he gets the Ability Symbol.

You...have no idea what the topic asked, did you?

 

[Hiroki]

Misty was on her way back to Cerulean City. Why not just go to the Batte Factory from their.
It may be technically first, but it is wierd to start off at one that is very hard to beat, and rush your way.

 

[GonbeTR]

Is this the only confusion in Kanto Battle Frontier saga? Maybe the reason is the fact that Anabel is too powerful for the debut - as Abhishek said - like Giovanni and Norman.In addition, I think there are a number of places which are not exist in games. Isn't this causes a lot of confusion, I don'y remember but I heard that there is a town called "silver". I knoıw anime=/=games but I think respecting the games will make the anime better.

 

[Darkstorm16]

Yeah it would be like just because in the Johto one that you are close to Blackthorn City by going north, if that was the first gym battle then you might as well give it up...I hope you know what I'm saying.

 

[sCiZoR_2006]

They basically used Misty as plot device to get ASh to go to the Battle Factory first. I guess the writers figure that having Ash take on psychic Pokemon first would have been too much for him...


...instead they had his battle an Articuno. *shrugs* go figure.

 

[The Benmeister]

You can't really use the 'might be too tough for the debut' thing, because the writers could easily change the difficulty order for all of the frontier brains. They just happened to decide to go to the Battle Factory first, and using tagging along with Misty in order to get there in the most efficient and un-noticable way. Except we noticed. Meh, the layout worked, I supposed.

 

[Darkstorm16]

Meh, they probably thought it would be good to start at the Battle Factory anyways. I wanna know this, how come it took them so fast to get close to Cerulean this time than the first journey it took a while?

 

[Juputoru]

I wanna know this, how come it took them so fast to get close to Cerulean this time than the first journey it took a while?

Most of the time spent getting the Cerulean the first time around was just getting to Pewter - it only took an episode to get to Cerulean from there. Bear in mind that Ash wasn't getting sidetracked by angry Spearow, an injured Pikachu, his first(and second, and third) encounters with Team Rocket, and the whole "evolve Caterpie into Butterfree really really fast!" deal this time around.

My guess is that starting at the Factory let them do a nice loop around Kanto, with something in between the Battle Palace and the Pyramid instead of A)nothingness or B)more filler. Plus they wanted to smash our hopes of the facilities keeping in game rules early and decisively, which is easiest to do with the Factory, since its gimmick(randomly-chosen rental Pokes only) is undoubtedly the hardest to ignore.

 

[Darkstorm16]

Ok that makes sense...thanks for clearing that up. My only question is that how many more filler towns will they have? I think if you add them all up, the towns would be almost side-by-side.

 

[V Faction]

That, my dear chum, we cannot answer. We have no influence on the way the show is written nor are we able to mentally link our minds with those of the Japanese writing this show to determine the outcome. It could be one more; it could be one thousand more. We shall wait and see.

 

[Darkstorm16]

Hmmm........no one will ever know until the series is done and over with.

 

[V Faction]

That's right. But, as a professor in "Make-stuff-up-ology," I declare that we will see a bundle of new, miscellaneous towns pop up in great numbers.

 

[Darkstorm16]

I just don't want too much filler towns.