DA02 is just as uneventful as, for example, Cottonee In Love or Unrest at the Nursery. Best Wishes is handled badly throughout the entire series. Giving Team Rocket personality improved them without changing the quality of the actual plots.
Serious personality =/= no personality.
I don't really like reading through long topics, especially not with the rants some people go on. :S Anyway, I'd rather see my favourite magenta-head in a contest than a COTD I don't care about. I'd love to see her as a more direct rival if they ever use her for this sort of thing in the future.
Looking over "magenta head"... the solution to her being "out of character" is to make her out of character?
Seriously, I want you to tell me how you reconcile what you want from them with the fact that a brain-dead Coordinator and her brain-dead followers is the farthest thing from what their characters were established as. Takeshi Shudo said once that he wanted the series to appeal to all ages, with Team Rocket being for the older end. Turning them into the most infantile characters on the show wasn't what they were created for.
It's the best evil organisation plot they've adapted. Aqua/Magma were horrible, Team Rocket's OS game-based stories were practically non-existent, and they were terrible in BW. Then Plasma had their goal changed to a generic mind control plot and were shoved in after the league as an after-thought. They're definitely the second best though because the characterisation was pretty faithful.
It's Team Rocket's fault the first Plasma plot is far too dark for the main demographic of the anime, which is younger than that of the games?
I'm also guessing you didn't play Black 2 or White 2, because Team Plasma's anime plan is literally identical to it, just without Kyurem.
When I say they didn't get in the way, I mean they weren't the primary antagonists. They let Galactic keep their role. With BW, Plasma were shoved out of the way so that JJM could talk like robots and have no personality.
Oh yeah, let's start the "no personality robots" thing again. Guess what? I think they're robots now with no personalities, programmed to act like brain-dead idiots.
No, I wouldn't. Galactic, Plasma and what little I remember of Aqua/Magma were always focused on taking Pokémon or artefacts that helped their ultimate goal. BW Rocket had frequent two-parters that were just "let's steal those Pokémon for the boss!" There's a reason why JJM didn't get entire arcs dedicated to grabbing stuff for Giovanni pre-BW; it makes awful stories.
Wrong. "Let's grab these Pokemon for the boss!" was only the goal of two out of five of their arcs.
Every appearance in the black uniform era was leading to the skipped Plasma episodes, and they weren't after any Pokemon, they were after the Meteonite. While we may never know the Meteonite's exact purpose, some images have implied that it had the ability to control the weather, which would directly set up Team Rocket's entire BW arc - weather control was their ultimate goal with Operation Tempest.
The Milos Island arc directly set up the Operation Tempest arc by giving them motivation to make their ultimate goal the Kami Trio.
Operation Tempest was built up by Milos Island and indirectly stated that their goal since then was to find how to control the Kami Trio. It did this by saying that the key they 'were looking for' was in Meloetta's song when they discovered it, and Giovanni came in to take the Kami Trio because they were the Pokemon he needed for his ultimate goal. There is literally no technical difference between that and what Team Galactic did.