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benking27

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How far ahead do the writers plan the saga? Did they know, back in Kanto GF, that one day Ambipom would be released? With the recent debacles happening, I've been wondering if the writers have a set plan for the saga. Each episode takes months to create, so it stands to reason that they could have Sinnoh all planned out. However, I'm just wondering what y'all think. Cuz I'm sure ratings have to play a part in that too.

Discuss.
 
It's not that far anymore trust me. The Snowpoint-Sunnyshore gap is almost over. Probably 2 or 3 episodes after the contest. They really can't make it any longer than that. 2-3 episodes after the gym is the GF, 2-3 after that is the league. The GF should be 4-5 and the league 7-9.
 
Thats nto what I was asking. I'm asking how far ahead do the writers plan the whole saga.
 
I wouldn't imagine that far, maybe about a few months or maybe even weeks, someone walks into the office and says "here's an idea, let's realese Gilscor and replace it with Gible", not long afterwards it takes place, I doubt they planned to release Aipom half way into generation 4.
 
I heard it was about 6 months. I remember we got the title for DP116 before DP106 even aired. They're probably writing the beginning of the filler arc as we speak.
 
Well, the only reason that Ash caught Aipom back in the Kanto Battle Frontier saga was to showcase Ambipom when Sinnoh came out, so it's clear that the writers plan things out quite a ways ahead of time.
 
They probably plan out 6 months to a year ahead of wherever they are.

There were rumors that Misty was going to leave Pokemon way back when the Whirl Cup arc was airing, and that's because around that time the writers were already starting the Hoenn arc, and it turned out to be right.

They probably decide which Pokemon the main characters will catch ahead of time though, like near the start of a saga.
 
Honestly?

They probably have a very rough plan of how the series will pan out, for Gym Battles and Contests. Sometimes it's incredibly obvious that the writers have had to abandon earlier plans because a new game is coming out, however.

Johto is the worst example. Incredibly drawn out and then rushed right at the end. Advanced Generation also suffered this fate for some reason, having a disgustingly rushed League despite Battle Frontier being the only thing awaiting the group.

By rushed I'm refering to the horribly rushed battles of the second half of the League. No one can tell me that sat down and thought that quick, hap dash OHKO battles would be a good idea or that it was planned.
 
I wonder about this too- surely they must map out what pokemon each trainer will have. But Paul, Zoey and Kenny seem to just acquire new pokemon out of nowhere with little rhyme or reason, and don't even got me started on the while Gligar/Gliscor thing!
 
I agree with Alfonso. I wish they would have spent more time on the League. In Johto they really had no choice, they had to wrap up the series and begin AG. There's no excuse for Hoenn though. I would have rather seen good, long League battles and a shorter filler arc then what we got. Episodes like the one with the giant Caterpie and the Mr Mime chef could have been skipped any way. Then there was the fighting dojo filler, the Psydck filler, and the ghost pokemon filler. Those are 5 episodes that would have been better spent in at the League/Grand Festival IMO.
 
They know main ideas. Such as Ash captures X. Train. Evolve. Dawn's X learns X. etc. Stuff like this are done probably 6 months-1 year in advance.

Deatails such as how a pokemon learns a move/is released, COTD's name/appearence, episode number, etc are usually decided closer the release of the episode.


At least this is how I've always believed it.
 
That fighting dojo ep in BF was awesome.

They also work on the movies a year in advance, so obviously they know what the main characters have on their teams a year from now.
 
The Valley of Onix/Geodude episode...

I remember watching that, along with hearing that terrible 'wacky' chase music and thinking "Why the hell did they rush through the League for this".
 
ijea4444 said:
They know main ideas. Such as Ash captures X. Train. Evolve. Dawn's X learns X. etc. Stuff like this are done probably 6 months-1 year in advance.

Deatails such as how a pokemon learns a move/is released, COTD's name/appearence, episode number, etc are usually decided closer the release of the episode.


At least this is how I've always believed it.
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I've always thought it to be like this. They make the main idea's, and add details closer to release.
 
CyberCubed said:
That fighting dojo ep in BF was awesome.

They also work on the movies a year in advance, so obviously they know what the main characters have on their teams a year from now.
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Which was why they teased us a bit with that Infernape Clip(I know its from an Opening) but kinda strange they put an Infernape. The first they put a random Starter in an Opening(not counting the Kanto Starters since it wasn't a battle scene)- in either The first Japanese Opening or the second Advance Generation Opening.
 
They have evolutions and captures set up to match what Pokemon appear in the movie, like Happiny hatched 2 episodes before the 10th Movie came out. They probably have where they're going after the main region planned out in advanced as well.

From there, things probably get changed, like maybe the original plan was for Ash to catch Aipom, trade it to the female protagonist of DP, and have it evolve. The "releasing" thing probably came later when they decided to have Dawn catch Swinb and evolve it into Mamoswine, and maybe they didn't want to have a full team of six since they still can't handle screentime for Ash's 6/7 Pokemon all that well (they're better but its still not perfect).

I guess next year at this time, we'll be in the filler arc, and by then I guess the writers will have the end of Sinnoh already mapped out and the first few dozen episodes of the 5th Gen ready for Fall 2011 to coincide with the new handheld, which will probably be released with the 5th Gen games.
 
I'm pretty pleased. only from the time of the gap between Suiren and Sunyshore i'm not, but we're almost finished with it, so it's not so bad.
 
I'd assume that they plan each region a couple of months in advance. Ir' like how we knew about DP116 a lot of months before it aired in Japan and same for DP160. Besides, how else would they get a preview for the next episode? I guess that maybe they already have all or most of the future Japanese and dub titles already though up but wont reveal more until later. That's what I think is usually happening.
 
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