well I give up on Mallow, she was the I guess by design the most interesting character, but it's damn clear she should've never been on the main cast, she's just as filler as this episode was, and I will hate the writers for this nonsense.
Nothing the writers can do to make it up, absolutely no way (in my opinion) to fix her filler character. anything is just nonsense.
I severely underestimated the writer's apathy and overestimated their ability to provide sense. and by this I mean, who in the hell came up with this stupid episode to make if focused on Mallow, shove Oranguru the most nonsense choice (and no her father's past encounter is irrelevant, don't act like that wasn't a plot contrivance) for something that should've been relevant to Mallow. and the only thing she has going for is now a completely random evolution.
fine call me a whiner, and a Mr. complains a lot, but ignoring all that, there is some severe favoritism going and for some serious bias against Mallow. Has to be for this to best they could give to Mallow which is the equivalent of nothing.
I can't even say "Mallow deserves better" because there'd be no point, it's not going to change, for me anyway, anything of value for Mallow is going to be just nonsense for me, absolute nonsense.
The only thing Mallow will have is the perpetual friendly like sidekick who has to rely on other people to have some role in the series, and that's sad.
If you liked this episode, fine, I don't care likewise, you don't need to care about my opinion, ignore it. Not here to tell people to enjoy or not enjoy the series, just expressing me thoughts of sheer disappointment that I feel Mallow will never get anything, and anything she gets will be forced nonsense for them to pretend like Mallow serves a vital role outside of sidekick role (in my opinion)
so I guess it'll be another 21 episodes for an episode to have more heavy focus on Mallow, Steenee's evolution?
well I do admit I was wrong. I never thought the writers would make a heavy Mallow episode involving a random nonsense Pokemon and have nothing of value come of it. sure for those who extremely like Mallow, I do hope it fulfilled your hopes and dreams for the character. It sure wasn't beneficial to me.