SerGoldenhandtheJust
Deluded Dreamer
.......people in this thread really like to attribute a stretch of episodes between development to mean that the writers had no plans for their characters. Especially with Chloe, she literally is the first companion after Dawn that I feel like they have a VERY concrete plan with and are slowly executing it, it's just slowburn which is made more digestable by the fact she isn't a MC and also since her development is tied to Eevee and exploring it's evolutions as a metaphor for finding her path in life, people don't like it coz Eevee always receives spotlight. Again, just because you don't like a character's execution DOESNT mean there wasn't a plan. Chloe definitely has a plan with her arc slowly being set up in the episodes, claiming otherwise is just plain false.
As for the other companions
The writers definitely had zero plans for Max. Bonnie was a Max well done with more proper bonding episode and then a proper Zygarde arc for her too which I heavily doubt was planned at the start, but worked well with how her character was setup.
Tracey frankly didn't need a plan, he was quite straightforward in what he wanted
Misty and Brock never had plans either related to their developments, receiving half hearted episodes towards that before chronicles improved heavily for Misty. Their character writing was very strong though
May and Dawn definitely were planned better
Iris plans execution was wonky to say the least and in BW she never had a proper endgame for that plan imo
Cilan had no plans at all development wise, but damn was he written well as a character
Serena's plans execution was even more wonky imo but that's all I'm saying lest this thread closes down
Clemont was fine for what he was, his development ended at lumiose and that's fine, his character was still okay and they gave him a Clembot sacrifice for TF which was good.
Same with Lillie, her major development happened really well with end of S1 and while she was less in limelight after that she still slowly had the family and mohn plan being built up for her.
Goal wise the writers never had many concrete plans for the SM characters coz their writing was character based, and on that front they definitely had plans and it showed.
Goh's plan execution is wonky but is still being done better imo with Project Mews introduction
People also really need to stop associating whether writers had a plan with just goal development and take character development into perspective as well. The only ones who felt really irrelevant to me that the writers never even wanted to focus on were Max and Tracey. Rest all received their own share even if the execution was rarely perfect
As for the other companions
The writers definitely had zero plans for Max. Bonnie was a Max well done with more proper bonding episode and then a proper Zygarde arc for her too which I heavily doubt was planned at the start, but worked well with how her character was setup.
Tracey frankly didn't need a plan, he was quite straightforward in what he wanted
Misty and Brock never had plans either related to their developments, receiving half hearted episodes towards that before chronicles improved heavily for Misty. Their character writing was very strong though
May and Dawn definitely were planned better
Iris plans execution was wonky to say the least and in BW she never had a proper endgame for that plan imo
Cilan had no plans at all development wise, but damn was he written well as a character
Serena's plans execution was even more wonky imo but that's all I'm saying lest this thread closes down
Clemont was fine for what he was, his development ended at lumiose and that's fine, his character was still okay and they gave him a Clembot sacrifice for TF which was good.
Same with Lillie, her major development happened really well with end of S1 and while she was less in limelight after that she still slowly had the family and mohn plan being built up for her.
Goal wise the writers never had many concrete plans for the SM characters coz their writing was character based, and on that front they definitely had plans and it showed.
Goh's plan execution is wonky but is still being done better imo with Project Mews introduction
People also really need to stop associating whether writers had a plan with just goal development and take character development into perspective as well. The only ones who felt really irrelevant to me that the writers never even wanted to focus on were Max and Tracey. Rest all received their own share even if the execution was rarely perfect