Speaking of other DP cons one of things i didnt liked is how too many episodes were dedicated to pokemon training and practice with purpose of perfecting techniques for appeal and battling round taking away from focus which could have been used for something more productive or interesting like having more arcs which would include return of older character or focus more on some neglected rivals.
Another negative thing is how underplayed some of Dawn rivals were with Kenny and Nando never being given justice as characters,Not to mention Ursula who had potential to develop fierce and great rivalry with Dawn sadly being introduced too late to domuch with hr.
With Zoey i was more or less satisfied liking her arrogant yet sensible attitude interacting well with Dawn and serving like some sort of mentor from who Dawn manage to learn quite a lot serving as motivation to push hr forward culminating with final clash at Sinnoh Grand Festival with Dawn almost going all way through.
You should read Takeshi Shudo's blogs. He was the head writer for the original series, and he was the person who made the decision to have Misty leave the series because of the Johto sagas reception. They were translated on a Rocketshipping website, entry 2 is mostly about Misty, the 2nd movie, etc:
http://www.freewebs.com/rocketshipper/takeshishudosblogs.htm
And what this has to do with anything?
Most people read those blogs but they just dont care.And why should they?
Opinion from one writer who stopped being in charge of this show long time ago doesnt has any influence of their liking for Misty or other characters.
Misty will always be recognized as first and iconic girl being likable by many because of hr multicolored personality,unique goals and aspirations and sad backstory to which many could relate.
Mr.Shudo not caring for character he wrote not doing it justice is his shame and failure as writer.
Misty was clearly considered as important part of pokemon series,otherwise writers wouldnt keep her for 5 years being longest lived female traveling companion,they wouldnt give her 4 episodes in chronicles making her central character,5 cameo episodes in Hoenn and several references through tokens like fishing lure,appearing in openings in queen of hearts card along with Ash mom Dehlia etc.
I've read that before, I just don't see how it means that she'll never appear again. I can understad not being on the main cast, but I don't understand how it says she'll never appear again.
It doesnt mean anything in reality.Shudo stepped out from position of head writer long,long time ago with Atsuhiro Tomioka doing series construction from Hoenn and onwards.Since new writers are in charge we dont have any idea how thy feel about said character and what are their plans regarding her return in future.
Fact that they were willing to return decade old characters like Gary or Jessibelle in DP shows how it doesnt matter to them how long someone was gone being able to bring him back if they decide to do something with character later on making him relevant to current story.
If someone so minor could return there is no reason why someone more popular and important like Misty couldnt as well.
When and for how long Misty will appear depends solely on them being able to even bring her back as main character again giving her justification and role to play important part in new series as far as they are concerned with no influence on their decisions or any input being present anymore.
Other writers as we get to see probably cared much more for Misty character which can be noticed with several things being improved in her story and development when mr.Shudo stopped doing series construction in mid Johto with Misty focus starting to increase being treated better from Master Quest and onwards.
Also they obviously arent "done with Misty"considering how her story never received closure with many things being left unexplored like her goal of water master for example having room to grow more.
