Just because Misty is loved by certain obsessive shut-ins, does not mean she is popular to the wide audience composed of 7 year olds who grew up liking Dawn and Piplup.
And yet whenever older character returns there is certain boost in TV ratings with episodes having more viewers due to attention of older fans being catched more.
More viewers means better ratings.
What do they all have in common? They are all related to Team Rocket. Hence they are free to make appearance because TR connects with them.
And Misty,May etc are related to main hero of this show Ash being his friends.
Also characters like Gary,Jasmine etc are in no way related to Tr still appearing.
Misty winning a tournament serves what promotional purpose?
Characters doesnt have to promote new games to be brought in.During her first appearance in Hoenn nothing from Ruby and Sapphire was promoted and speaking of tournaments new water types could have been promoted being showcased through some competition being more interesting than seeing them in some random filler or training based episode.
Also even ex pokemon director stated this could have be one of reasons said character could be brought back for.It doesnt matter if it didnt happened,but it gives us insight in possible actions which may have been taken by writing staff.
As we have seen from Jasmine, gym leaders are quite happy with their very old pokemon.
What kind of argumemnt is that?If you knew anything about Mistys character you would know how much she is passionate about water types being eager when she see new ones wanting them.
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Once again, Gary is directly tied to Oak and he is from Pallet. Misty has no business there besides her single obligatory reunion, but the show moved passed that.[/QUOTE]
Misty wasnt necessary to be at Pallet at start of Battle Frontier either but it didnt stopped writers from having her there.Besides Cerulean is near Pallet and it makes perfect sense when someone wants to visit his old time friend being reason why Misty was there last time.
The writers are short on time and resources, they are not going to waste it on Misty while Iris and Dento (the current promotional campaign) are in need of it.
Another invalid argument,.If older character helps current characters to advance their storylines this is in no way waste of time since plot is being advancd with new characters through help of others overcoming their issuies.
Like May did by helping Dawn during Wallace Cup.
Also even if character doesnt contribute to current plot,if his storyline is advanced more this is not waste either considering he received benefit from it,at same time satisfying audience.
All which are meaningless outside your obsessed and biased mind.
Meaningless to you.
I think title of obsessed and biased can go to someone who actually thought "Dawn will from now on be permanent co-star with Ash".
Too late for that. If they really felt it was necessary Misty would have made an appearance in DP, considering it had a huge stretch of arcs.
As long show is running,its never too late.
They couldn't make time for Misty because she simply did not matter anymore.
And if wanted writers could make her relevant again,like they did with other older characters.
All these characters were brought back for TR.
At same time they werent necessary to be brought back,which explains why during Hoenn,Johto and Batle Frontier there were no signs for alot of them.
For main cast members, it does, as new characters come by every new generation, and older ones doesn't serve the purpose anymore.
Personal opinion doesnt equal being factual.If writers want to bring older maines back,they will again serve purpose so that argument pretty much fails.
You made em' up, if these ideas ever went across writers heads Misty should be here, she isn't, so they are like...useless?
First,water tournament thing was used as example for which Misty could be brought back by Masamitsu Hidaka(ex pokemon director who was after that storyboard artist).Considering he actually worls for pokemon company,his words holds more of credit than fan opinions,actually knowing how writers operate and how things work.
Reason why Misty wasnt brought back is for the same one why May,Dawn etc wont appear later on too.Problem is not in lack of valid reasons to be brought back for because writers can easily create them or use othings unfinished in their stories to create a purpose behind their return,but because there are already too many older characters for all of them to be brought back in one region.
May and Dawn were coordinators it was so ****ing easy, with Misty they have to create certain complicated backstory which affects more than just contests.
We are talking about cartoon for little kids in here.If you want show with complicated and deep story,your following wrong one.
Your forgetting how older characters doesnt have to be in connection with new characters not contributing to their development like May did.Mistys cameo was for purpose of advancing her story.
p.s,.My,my i always get a good laugh when hearing arguments from Misty haters.