Locormus
Can we please get the older, old forum back?
So complaints about offscreen progress, inconsistent development pace, imbalanced screentime, episodic narratives are childish backlash while saying a series sucked for doing a concept you dont like isnt childish? Sure.
Not surprised, shitting on SM in a thread made to encourage positivity by contemplating how Journeys can and has the potential to improve on its criticisms. These same people call me a SM fanboy lmao, not my fault you cant stop bringing it up on unrelated stuff, id love to discuss all the other stuff i love about anipoke and Pokemon in general but they just cant stop bringing it up in unrelated stuff.
90% of the criticism is about Goh as a character and his goal - and yes, it's undeserved because people don't like his concept. That's the entire reason why I brought up SM-example. Which by all means was a cynical mirror.
I was simply told not to watch, because apparently I was the problem and the show was fine. Fine. I only watched sporadic episodes. Then I watched the entire series with my kid on Netflix - and I stand by my point. I still don't like it. Different strokes for different blokes, but you didn't see me whine about every little thing. Which by all means, yes, is childish.
There are indeed a few potentially valid criticisms but I don't think there's such an excessive problem to start a fanbased workgroup to try and 'fix' things.
1. - Offscreen progress: I have no issue with this - unless it's something like a capture, evolution or a critical move development (like Gible+DracoMeteor/Scraggy+FocusBlast). I don't care about "missing out" on Ash blasting lower tier battles, because I know how these things work through the racing games that I play.. When I start in a multiplayer season, I can casually jump from rank 16000 to 11000 in one race, because I've got better material/skill. It's the boring part. You need infinitely more time to rank up through top10%, because the material/skill-level curve flattens. That's the part where Ash is currently getting to. But since there's obviously TONS of Goh focus (the mostheared complaint), this MUST mean that Ash screentime is getting screwed and a lot is left unscreen. So this criticism is likely anti-Goh-influenced.
2. - Inconsistent development pace: Is this about Ash's rankjump or Goh catching a Suicune "before Ash caught a Legendary"? Because if so, that's yet again at its core bitterness towards Goh.
3. - Imbalanced screentime: See point one. Goh deserves his screentime at this point moreso then we need to see Ash fighting low-tiered plebs. I'm an Ash-fan. All I want is a bit more from his team, but I'm sure we'll get to it once the more important battles get here.
4. - Episodic narrative: According to Dephender this is an intentional choice, influenced by the timeslot changes. Meaning: Pointless to argue.
Oh, 3 out of 4 can be distilled to the current rampant anti-Goh sentiment.
I never called you a fanboy and I'm not shitting on SM by any means by mentioning one thing I didn't like. Expressing dislike =/= shitting on. The thing I disliked most just happened to be the most visible change from the norm.
Also, you brought up SM in your opening post. If you think it's unrelated, don't bring it up yourself.
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