Haunter ゴースト
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Hey everyone,
I'm pretty sure i can vouch for many that there were a tonne of storylines and episode ideas that could have been great development wise in Best Wishes, but not only this but that there were a variety of things that ended up never getting expanded on or mentioned again. I'm not going to list everything as the list would be huge, but i will list a majority of the most annoying missed opportunities the writers could have dealt with:
-Ash and Zekrom: In BW001 the impression was given that Zekrom would relate to Ash in some way. Episode N was the perfect opportunity to have this mean something, but instead it was completely dismissed and only looked over by N for 10 seconds. I'd have loved Ash and Zekrom vs N and Reshiram.
-Krookodile's Sunglasses: So we all know Krookodile was fond of it's glasses, particularly so much that it lost it's battle against Swoobat. Surely this is a major problem that needed training to overcome? It's not like Krookodile wouldn't be able to wear them anymore, I just feel some development on the Sunglasses preventing it battling needed to take place, i'd have liked to see it train so that if it lost them mid-battle it could continue fighting.
-Snivy's Past Trainer?: It would have been nice to see some backstory here, i know the chances of Ash and Co. meeting Snivy's past trainer should be 0.01%, and it happened with Tepig, but the writers made all the unlikely things happen in BW (meeting Dawn, Ash vs Trip, Stephan and Cameron at the League etc.) that it feels like Snivy drew the short straw.
-Cilan's Purrloin Fear: That's it everyone, just like Brock's sadness to Professor Ivy, we will never know why. It annoys me, what's the point in adding these moments if we'll never know what caused them? A bonding episode for Cilan and Purrloin would have been great, hell i'd have loved him to catch one over the fear.
-Team Rocket vs Team Plasma + other stories involving this clash: Yes, I understand the postponing wasn't the writers fault, but they had the opportunity to divert the story and recover it. A retcon would have been fine so long as it still happened. The one episode in Episode N wasn't good enough.
A personal want of mine which I full heartedly thought was a possibility before the postponing was that Giovanni, Team Rocket, Team Plasma, Original Mewtwo and Genesect were all going to clash at some point during the anime (which very well could have been the intention for Movie 16 before the postponing). However it didn't happen.
General Pokemon Development (Training and Evolutions): Pretty much this. A lot of chances for development were in the saga, Oshawott trained to not use his shell but it didn't even work. Another episode could have shown that eventually he learned not to need his shell to fight.
Scraggy and Axew's Friendship: Anybody else disappointed nothing come from this? I'm surprised they didn't even get to say goodbye to each other. I'd have liked to have seen Axew and Scraggy evolve together which leads to my next annoyed moment:
Axew's Training: BW006, Axew shows he wants to evolve. Yeah nothing confirmed he would evolve, but it seems such a shame that he didn't evolve at all. I'd have rather he not dreamed of evolving so we could just assume it would evolve whenever it would evolve.
Iris becoming a Gym Leader: The foreshadowing was there and it blatantly stated that she could one day become one. Okay okay you could argue that she is pursuing this by going to see Claire and train, i'm just surprised it was only properly mentioned in that one episode with Drayden. Note this is my most picky point.
Roxie and Koffing - TR James Mention: Considering the debut of Roxie and particularly Koffing was a big moment in Best Wishes as it was the first time we had properly seen an older Gen Pokemon appear, I would have liked James to have peered through the window and mentioned his own Koffing to Jessie and Meowth.
The Rivals and no closure (semi-excluding Trip): No closure for the rivals was given, only partly to Trip. Regardless though Trip's appearances and development with Ash was so poorly done it shouldn't be allowed to be called closure on anything. Cilan should have made ammends with Cabernet and Iris should have beaten Georgia properly which again leads me to another point:
Iris and her fear of Ice: Yeah so she never got over it. The perfect opportunity here was to give her an Ice Type. Who? Lapras, considering it would have helped represent her B2/W2 in-game team.
Snivy and Emolga's Rivalry: Nothing too important, it just would have been nice to see an episode which properly focused on their rivalry and maybe even resolved it fully would have been good instead of small arguments in select amount of episodes.
Butterfree DA Episode: Why have new Butterfree when it was the perfect opportunity/setup for his old Butterfree to re-appear?
Kyurem: Third mascot legendaries never really get a special episode in the anime, still it would have been nice in DA! if a Kyurem centric plot was brought in for an episode or two. It was hinted by Team Plasma after all.
DA! Filler Arc: The final point. DA. This arc could have easily introduced some form of sub plot. Another Orange Islands styled thing would have been good, hell even a tournament which Ash was heading too. DA! Is the first proper arc were nothing was relevant other than killing time for XY. Ash could have gotten his glorification in this arc, some form of strong win which redeemed what he lost in the rest of BW.
So, what are your wishes, wants and disappointments for storylines that never came to be in BW? Anything you wanted to see or explained list it below
I'm pretty sure i can vouch for many that there were a tonne of storylines and episode ideas that could have been great development wise in Best Wishes, but not only this but that there were a variety of things that ended up never getting expanded on or mentioned again. I'm not going to list everything as the list would be huge, but i will list a majority of the most annoying missed opportunities the writers could have dealt with:
-Ash and Zekrom: In BW001 the impression was given that Zekrom would relate to Ash in some way. Episode N was the perfect opportunity to have this mean something, but instead it was completely dismissed and only looked over by N for 10 seconds. I'd have loved Ash and Zekrom vs N and Reshiram.
-Krookodile's Sunglasses: So we all know Krookodile was fond of it's glasses, particularly so much that it lost it's battle against Swoobat. Surely this is a major problem that needed training to overcome? It's not like Krookodile wouldn't be able to wear them anymore, I just feel some development on the Sunglasses preventing it battling needed to take place, i'd have liked to see it train so that if it lost them mid-battle it could continue fighting.
-Snivy's Past Trainer?: It would have been nice to see some backstory here, i know the chances of Ash and Co. meeting Snivy's past trainer should be 0.01%, and it happened with Tepig, but the writers made all the unlikely things happen in BW (meeting Dawn, Ash vs Trip, Stephan and Cameron at the League etc.) that it feels like Snivy drew the short straw.
-Cilan's Purrloin Fear: That's it everyone, just like Brock's sadness to Professor Ivy, we will never know why. It annoys me, what's the point in adding these moments if we'll never know what caused them? A bonding episode for Cilan and Purrloin would have been great, hell i'd have loved him to catch one over the fear.
-Team Rocket vs Team Plasma + other stories involving this clash: Yes, I understand the postponing wasn't the writers fault, but they had the opportunity to divert the story and recover it. A retcon would have been fine so long as it still happened. The one episode in Episode N wasn't good enough.
A personal want of mine which I full heartedly thought was a possibility before the postponing was that Giovanni, Team Rocket, Team Plasma, Original Mewtwo and Genesect were all going to clash at some point during the anime (which very well could have been the intention for Movie 16 before the postponing). However it didn't happen.
General Pokemon Development (Training and Evolutions): Pretty much this. A lot of chances for development were in the saga, Oshawott trained to not use his shell but it didn't even work. Another episode could have shown that eventually he learned not to need his shell to fight.
Scraggy and Axew's Friendship: Anybody else disappointed nothing come from this? I'm surprised they didn't even get to say goodbye to each other. I'd have liked to have seen Axew and Scraggy evolve together which leads to my next annoyed moment:
Axew's Training: BW006, Axew shows he wants to evolve. Yeah nothing confirmed he would evolve, but it seems such a shame that he didn't evolve at all. I'd have rather he not dreamed of evolving so we could just assume it would evolve whenever it would evolve.
Iris becoming a Gym Leader: The foreshadowing was there and it blatantly stated that she could one day become one. Okay okay you could argue that she is pursuing this by going to see Claire and train, i'm just surprised it was only properly mentioned in that one episode with Drayden. Note this is my most picky point.
Roxie and Koffing - TR James Mention: Considering the debut of Roxie and particularly Koffing was a big moment in Best Wishes as it was the first time we had properly seen an older Gen Pokemon appear, I would have liked James to have peered through the window and mentioned his own Koffing to Jessie and Meowth.
The Rivals and no closure (semi-excluding Trip): No closure for the rivals was given, only partly to Trip. Regardless though Trip's appearances and development with Ash was so poorly done it shouldn't be allowed to be called closure on anything. Cilan should have made ammends with Cabernet and Iris should have beaten Georgia properly which again leads me to another point:
Iris and her fear of Ice: Yeah so she never got over it. The perfect opportunity here was to give her an Ice Type. Who? Lapras, considering it would have helped represent her B2/W2 in-game team.
Snivy and Emolga's Rivalry: Nothing too important, it just would have been nice to see an episode which properly focused on their rivalry and maybe even resolved it fully would have been good instead of small arguments in select amount of episodes.
Butterfree DA Episode: Why have new Butterfree when it was the perfect opportunity/setup for his old Butterfree to re-appear?
Kyurem: Third mascot legendaries never really get a special episode in the anime, still it would have been nice in DA! if a Kyurem centric plot was brought in for an episode or two. It was hinted by Team Plasma after all.
DA! Filler Arc: The final point. DA. This arc could have easily introduced some form of sub plot. Another Orange Islands styled thing would have been good, hell even a tournament which Ash was heading too. DA! Is the first proper arc were nothing was relevant other than killing time for XY. Ash could have gotten his glorification in this arc, some form of strong win which redeemed what he lost in the rest of BW.
So, what are your wishes, wants and disappointments for storylines that never came to be in BW? Anything you wanted to see or explained list it below
