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Super Contests

uber gon

Accept Change
Why do you think the writers decided to use the old elements of contests instead of the "newer" elements?
 

morefirepokemon

Fire Master
who knows maybe they didnt want to add the dancing part
 

YellowHat

The Anticool
Because dancing would make theses new episodes lamer than they already are. And dressing up the pokemon? No.
 

Geostomp

Well-Known Member
Because dancing would make theses new episodes lamer than they already are. And dressing up the pokemon? No.

The new episodes have been almost universally praised for jumping up in quality after the writers little "we're not even trying anymore" stint in Hoenn.

As for the rest of it, I agree that dancing and dress-up would be very lame.

They, instead, used May's Contests as a base, but replaced some of the worse elements (off-screen battles) and added a meter that isn't inconsistent.
 

Reign G

Roggen and Rolan
Oh, geeze...Another Kanto elitist. If you hate the show so much, stop watching it.

As for the Contests...Dressing up their Pokemon would be stupid, but no more stupid then the Coordinators dressing up. Also, dancing Pokemon would rock.

*Imagines the Mukku.CONGA from "Pikachu's In Charge!"
 

Prio

Well-Known Member
The contests are already overglorified already, they don't need to add **** that will make them lammer.
 

May Ketchum

Dawn IS my world....
Hey, at least I like these episodes, true Dawn overdoes it, dresses in these fancy dresses that should be for proms and not contest. They should simple not so elaborate and fancy (like Dawn dressing up as Ash, simple but wierd as well, but hey at least it's simple)
 

Prio

Well-Known Member
Hey, at least I like these episodes, true Dawn overdoes it, dresses in these fancy dresses that should be for proms and not contest. They should simple not so elaborate and fancy (like Dawn dressing up as Ash, simple but wierd as well, but hey at least it's simple)

The contests were unnecessary from the start when May was added.
 

Geostomp

Well-Known Member
May's Contests were, in my opinion, the worst part of her stay.

They had dozens of nameless people entering, but somehow, May's worst appeals were more impressive than 90% of all of their's to the Judges.

Despite the fact that she had just learned to battle and used weak pokemon, she managed to beat all of them in battles that we don't get to see.

In the end, it's always May, her rival-of-the-day, and Jessie in a poor disguise in the finals. Their battles are usually full of crap worse than anything that other battlers get accused of constantly.

That bar bounced up and down randomly and the time limit usually gave out just when May was winning.

They were so messed up that nobody could take them as real competitions. Dawn's have already proven better than almost any of May's.
 

CyberCubed

Yeah, ok!
They had dozens of nameless people entering, but somehow, May's worst appeals were more impressive than 90% of all of their's to the Judges.

There are usually 8 people making it past the appeals, and we never get to see all the other appeals. Only May's early appeals were unimpressive, how were the laters not?

Despite the fact that she had just learned to battle and used weak pokemon, she managed to beat all of them in battles that we don't get to see.

This is false, May did horribly in her first Contest. After that the writers gradually showed her get stronger between each Contest via fillers, etc.

In the end, it's always May, her rival-of-the-day, and Jessie in a poor disguise in the finals. Their battles are usually full of crap worse than anything that other battlers get accused of constantly.

Again, false. A good chunk of May's battles are considered the best battles of the last couple of years.

What exactly was wrong with Beautifly Vs. Medicham? Combusken Vs, Grumpig? Bulbasaur Vs. Cacturne? Skitty Vs. Jynx? Combusken Vs. Vibrava? Combusken Vs. Venusaur? Blaziken Vs. Sceptile?

Do you even know what you're talking about?

They were so messed up that nobody could take them as real competitions.

Nobody could take them as real competitions? Where are you getting this garbage from? Have you actually read any reviews from people when the Contest eps have been airing?

Hello? Go to the episode review threads in the anime section, and go click on each episode and read peoples comments about the Contests. Almost all the Contests got excellent reviews from the fandom, with the exception of some, (like the Dusclops one, Ariados among others), and everyone considered them just as good or better than some of Ash's Gym battles.

Contests were generally considered the best new part of the series when AG began, and they've done so successfully that the writers decided to give them a third round now in D/P.

I honestly feel sorry for you that you couldn't enjoy what were essentially some of the best written episodes of the series. And you "pretending" that the Contests were written badly just shows how much at odds end you are with everyone else when you read the episode reviews in the episode discussion forum.
 
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