Serena's goal choice is probably the worst thing the writers could have ever come up with. Instead of having her as a Pokemon racer which would have been new and exciting, they're just passing off Contest appeals as some new type of goal. The fact that Serena's goal has no battling means we'll virtually never get to see Serena in any great battles either, since she doesn't battle in filler episodes either aside from TR.
Because Pokémon Racing's final round includes a battle-royale between the competitors, right?
OK, about unpopular opinions:
- I don't care about Ash ... at all, he's been dragged along for too much time and needs to leave, his team, on the other hand, are really really cool
- I don't want to see Serena and Clemont interacting for shipping purposes, I want to see them interacting because they are FREAKING COMPANIONS, they don't reach the akward levels DP companions reached, but some talking about themselves wouldn't kill them
- Serena bashing is reaching ridiculous levels, we're reaching a point where almost everything she does will get a lot of critics, and I mean ANYTHING, she races Rhyhorns, WRONG, she bakes macaroons, WRONG, she likes performing, WRONG, she catches a Pancham, WRONG, yeah, most of them are trolling, but it's really getting annoying
- Ash won't get a keystone, and I don't think we'll see more than one Mega in the League
- I don't want Charizard to come back