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What's your biggest disappointment in Pokemon?

What's your biggest disappointment in Pokemon?


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CyberCubed

Yeah, ok!
You can vote more than once, but if your biggest disappointment there isn't listed, feel free to just type it.

While the Pokemon anime has been a wonderful and entertaining series, it is highly likely that every single person watching this show has felt a disappointment at one time or another.

What's your biggest disappointment in Pokemon?

BTW, I didn't include Johto on the poll, because that would have definitely had the most amount of votes by being the most disappointing saga of them all. I figured that was a given.
 
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Team Magma/Aqua being handled poorly, Poor character development for Misty and/or Brock, Lack of any true villains in the show, and The show never changing, and continuing to do the same stuff year after year.

Those four are the biggest. And I was disappointed when Misty and May left. But I got over Misty's departure. And May, well...I knew it was coming, so I didn't let myself get all upset over it.

Misty did not really have a role on the show during Johto. Johto was just plain boring, a reason why I didn't watch much of it.
And Brock. Ah jeez, Brock. What can I say about him? He's been on the show for the whole time, and he still has no point on being on it. He does the same thing, cooking, finding directions, and going after every single girl. Too old now.

No real villians. Team Rocket...their never able to steal anything. They always end up working with the twerps at times. Not real villians, I think. Well, especially James.
And Team Magma/Aqua were really boring. Thats all I can say about them.
 

Night Avenger

Rust In Peace
Should add:
Ash releasing almost every single strong pokémon he gets.
 

MidnightScott

Super Gamer
Brock returning for Shinou. Can't that guy just go back to the gym and be the leader? He's officially been around longer than Misty...and I would rather have Misty back than Brock. But two girls never happens for the groups, lol.

Oh well, I still like the show regardless :D

I hate how he never beats a league >_>; - they make him lose too much now...

#1 - Voice Actors Changed...I stopped watching it in English. The voices really lack emotion ~ though I say Brock's voice shows the most emotion (I can't stand James' new voice at all...and I hate Oak's and Meowth's. I watched several episodes and I just couldn't handle it. But that's okay, I already know what they are about since I watched them in Japanese.

~Scott;229;
 
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latino heat

Mexican pride
I would have to say that they do the same old sh!t every season.
 

Satoshi

リーリエの為に戦ってるトレーナー
Oh boy.

The game adaption of Advanced Generation was done so poorly, it's not even funny. :\ Skipping some of the game locations (even those that are IMPORTANT in the games, such as Okuribi Yama), I did NOT like. Though, it's funny that the Devon Corporation was left in the anime (due to the ANNOYING fact that Silph Co. was NEVER EVER referenced ONCE in the ENTIRE anime series. Hmm...another attempt to avoid Rocket Gang disbanding (which should've happened over two times, btw), writers?). Plus the BADLY adapted Battle Frontier facilties (I didn't mind that they put it in Kanto, since it had good potential to look back at the past episodes...WHICH IT ALMOST NEVER DID. The writers screwed with the Battle Frontiers' rules and made them seem like Gym Leaders, only more "powerful" than usual).

Oh yeah, Takeshi being in AG-Shinou is JUST MESSED UP. Don't pull the "he's the cook! He's supposed to be there!" crap on me. In the games, the player you're playing as travels solo. With NO personal chief. He/she's bound to starve. In my opinion, seeing the group starve to death and go through those kinds of hardships when traveling as a trainer would be pretty interesting to see (we get to see what the life of a trainer would be like...WITHOUT a personal chief 8D). With Takeshi, or any character that counteracts any -cons in the group, it makes the group seem very Mary-Gary sue-ish (I mean, they have a PERSONAL CHIEF).

But my biggest disappointment about the Pokemon anime is that it just doesn't even try to be a good adaption of the games anymore (that ended right after the first 80 episodes...granted, the Jouto portion of Pocket Monsters was close to the games somewhat, like the Red Gyarados arc with Rocket Gang, but Satoshi wasn't the one that was supposed to take part in any of them, nor the G/S/C portion of the anime for that matter - when you look at the games' storyline and the anime's storyline - you'd see that they are completely different only holding some similarities, which are only some side plots in the games. Only existing in the anime because of advertising purposes) or try to make a good story while advertising the games (Orange Islands wasn't adapted from the games, but it showed promise by going a path that's more original - like the Gym Badge quest being much more different from the regular and it had good potential for a good story). Seriously, how hard is it to make more story arcs, escaping the usual episode formula? As we've seen from the TV specials and movies, the writers ARE capable of making interesting plots. Also, comparing how many movies there are and how many episodes there are, I hardly think that making (at least) enough sideplots to avoid some horrible amount of fillers between Gym battles is too much to ask...AND it would give the writers a chance to, you know, actually think. But, the only thing that would counter that is if the writers would shaft an interesting plot (taken from the games, of course) for their f*cking advertising. Seriously, did you ever think the Kyogre/Groudon arc could've been MUCH better? Really, they had a chance to STRETCH OUT the saga (to cut down on the fillers, giving us something ENJOYABLE to watch and fill in some space at the same time) AND showcase Mikuri (really, couldn't they have advertised Emerald by JUST putting Adan as the Gym Leader of Rune City (and of course, explaining why Mikuri's no longer the Gym Leader of the town?)? I mean, at least put Mikuri in this arc to advertise both R/S and Emerald. Two in one, writers. Two in one. And on that note, if they were going to advertise their asses off for Emerald, why didn't they put Rayquaza into the arc to spice things up, with it going in to stop the clash between Kyogre and Groudon? It's friggin' ridiculous to shaft an important R/S/E game character (replacing him with an old R/B/G/Y character that SHOULD NOT BE THERE) and shaft a potentially good arc just to advertise Emerald when they're not going to advertise it ALL THE F*CKING WAY). Unfortunately, the arc fell victim to the same bad writing and game adaption the anime has always had.
 
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Maes Hughes

Well-Known Member
MidnightScott said:
#1 - Voice Actors Changed...I stopped watching it in English. The voices really lack emotion ~ though I say Brock's voice shows the most emotion (I can't stand James' new voice at all...and I hate Oak's and Meowth's. I watched several episodes and I just couldn't handle it. But that's okay, I already know what they are about since I watched them in Japanese.

~Scott;229;

I lost my intrest in the anime thanks to them changing voice actors mid-season -_-

also the fact that Zangoose was only seen in one friggin episode. but at least it got an entire episode devoted to him unlike other pokemon XP

but it would've been more intresting for me if ash, brock, or may would've caught a zangoose >_>
 

Juputoru

M-m-m-m-onobear?!
Team Magma/Aqua being handled poorly, lack of game references in the Hoenn region, lack of continuity to Season 1 in Battle Frontier, and the lack of any true villains in the show(don't get me wrong, I love TR, but a true villian WOULD be nice) are my picks, along with the unlisted "lack of E4 members". Kanto gets serious favoritism in the E4 department D: (being the only region with more than one E4 member showing up in the anime...unless you count champions, then Houen barely makes it. And poor Johto only gets Koga(sort of) and Lance(who's also from Kanto!) to its name. Where's my Itsu, dammit? And Karen I guess. I suppose the Houen E4 could fall under lack of game references, but that still irks me(Sidney? Phoebe? Hellloooo?))

And an indirect problem with the anime is its fandom, but I shan't get into that or else I'll be impaled on a stick before the night's through. :(
 

Lil Brother

Just kinda there.
ash won the orange leagues.....

im disappointed cuz....

there arent any emo pokemon.
We've had several emo Pokémon.

Mewtwo's best friend died and led him to subconciously wipe his mind of memories and go into a depression which lead to the deaths of several people. If it weren't for the twerps, he would have killed off humanity and nearly all Pokémon because he despised everyone but clones.

Lucario was frozen in time for centuries and was seemingly abandoned by his best friend. He even said "I don't want any friends" in the dub.

[spoil]The Deoxys in the soon-premiered-outside-of-Japan Deoxys Crisis special was afraid of everything outside of its meteor home which it stayed inside for decades.[/spoil]
 
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