In
this thread by
@Ignition I summed up my feelings about BW quite well. And yes, I do still feel the same way about it. Even though it's my least favorite saga, because I like Pokémon so much I like it much much more than most things from most other shows. Here are the 16 things I listed off in that thread as things I like about BW even though it's my least favorite saga:
BW:
1. It's evaluation time!
2. Cilan was a breath of fresh air after Brock had become stale. I liked the episodes where they were like bros like the double battle episode.
3. Episode N
4. how Da! had a lot of callbacks to the past
5. Alexa debuting and debuting Gen VI Pokémon. It was nice to see after I thought they had stopped that tradition in the DP-BW transition.
6. Competent TR - Giovanni actually showing up in Unova and battling Ash - being the main villain arc for once
7. the Meowth arc
8. the origin of the Dunsparce meme
9. The Team Plasma arc having a 6-part finale, still the most episodes in a villain finale
10. all the tournament arcs
11. All main characters actually being active battlers (largely because of the tournament arcs)
12. Ash having a female rival for once
13. the Bianca gag where she got Ash wet
14. all main characters having rivals for once
15. Dawn and Cynthia returning
16. TR stopping appearing in every episode
Don George's training facility was a wasted opportunity, with one exception (when Ash was training for a Gym rematch against Lenora), Don George's training facilities were completely wasted only really being used for tournament arcs, I honestly would've preferred seeing Ash train in anyone of them over seeing over 100+ episodes of filler.
Yup i agree. But it was used one other time you forgot about in Astilbe town when he had a double battle with Tepig and Snivy against Emboar and Heatmor who were owned by Tepig's original trainer.
Trip is a lame, watered-down version of Paul. I hate how they threw away all of his Pokemon that weren't Serperior. Frillish and Vanillite? Never seen after their first appearance. Tranquill? Showed up twice and then never again. Timburr? All it did was lose.
Don't forget about Lampent!
How many times did Georgia and Iris fight again? Not counting Georgia's debut episode.
just once, at the WTJC, which Iris won only due to Dragonite's disobedience smh
I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up with Bianca. "A female Rival for Ash? How cool! Can't wait to see her get a cool battle with Ash at the Lea-oh, she lost to Cameron?" - Me
Well I don't think this had much to do with her being a girl. It seems to be a recent trend that they pit secondary rivals against more main rivals to eliminate them early in leagues, presumably to supposedly hype up the winner of that battle even more: Barry, Trevor, and Tierno have all also lost this way.
Steven is the only good Rival in this show. Guy felt like an actual fleshed out character. Getting focus in the Clubspolosion helped. You did good a job, Stephanie.
You did good here.. I giggled.
He didn't even have a Sylveon, the new Pokemon at the time. Why?
Eevee evolving into Sylveon to beat Cameron's Hydreigon or Dino's Druddigon should have been exactly what happened.
And in a show about Ash trying to compete in a tournament, having three other tournaments just makes the League less exciting to wait for.
yeah and then the final battle with his "main" rival ended up being formatted like those other tournaments: 1v1!
Why was Ash's last Gym battle rushed? Why did he need the final Badge before Season 2 started? And for that matter, why did we need a Season 2? Nothing really changed outside of old Pokemon coming back to justify the name change.
yeah and not to mention, they oddly put NEXT TIME A NEW BEGINNING at the end of the Roxie gym battle, only to
not even put next time a new beginning on the screen at the end of xy OR xyz.
What a thoughtless question! Ash need to govern Arizona of course he's needed! Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar it don't matter at all. Arizona is the highest priority!
Oh so ASH was the King of Arizona whom Esmé Gigi Genevieve Squalor, the city's sixth most important financial advisor, was going to meet! It all makes sense now
HA I still remember the lack of Ash/Trip interactions compared to his other rivals, that was just sad. Even in those tournaments every none Ash character defeated Trip oh man.
better than Gary
Bit late, but he didn't have it because it didn't exist. Virgil was introduced during a rather extensive Eievui marketing campaign than ran for a good number of months and eventually culminated in the announcement of the "Pikachu and its Eievui Friends" halfway into the league. Nymphia was revealed a couple months later as a new Pokemon appearing in this short, but that was after Virgil had left the show.
But yeah, him being a walking ad for that specific evolutionary line made a lot of sense at the time. He didn't exist in a vacuum.
yeah but what happened to the days of just debuting a Pokémon in the anime with no prior appearance in any media? Didn't Blaziken debut that way?