Soniman
Break the Limit
Many people have brought this up but I really feel like this kinda deserve this own topic.
We all know Pokemon isnt the most continuity intensive anime ever but they would never shy away from recognizing their past when it's appropriate. AG was a direct continuation of OS so they didnt feel the need to disconnect. DP was a little more disconnected but still there were refrences to Misty, May and her rivals, the Lt Surge Episode, reserves and what have you.
BW was the first series that couldve easily gotten away with not giving us anything given the "reebooty" direction it took but in the end it ended up having a plethora of refrences to the past, to many to even list but to put it short, every prior saga got brought up.
So im asking, wondering, why on earth is XY less then 10 episodes from ending and we still havent gotten anything beyond a thoraway Piplup refrence, it's not like XY/Gen VI is self contaned, hell if anything its a saga that's RIPE for the picking in terms of refrences but we dont even get a pokgeirl cameo, a decadce old tradition that is seemingly done away with for no reason.
I just want to hear other people reasonings for why this is, because no matter how hard I rack my brain I just cannot really fathom why they're doing this when it only hurts their series and makes it feel more disconnected from everything. When Ash gets to the finals of a Pokemon League with narry a refrence or reserve (something that was consistently brought up by people throughout the League), something is seriously wrong
We all know Pokemon isnt the most continuity intensive anime ever but they would never shy away from recognizing their past when it's appropriate. AG was a direct continuation of OS so they didnt feel the need to disconnect. DP was a little more disconnected but still there were refrences to Misty, May and her rivals, the Lt Surge Episode, reserves and what have you.
BW was the first series that couldve easily gotten away with not giving us anything given the "reebooty" direction it took but in the end it ended up having a plethora of refrences to the past, to many to even list but to put it short, every prior saga got brought up.
So im asking, wondering, why on earth is XY less then 10 episodes from ending and we still havent gotten anything beyond a thoraway Piplup refrence, it's not like XY/Gen VI is self contaned, hell if anything its a saga that's RIPE for the picking in terms of refrences but we dont even get a pokgeirl cameo, a decadce old tradition that is seemingly done away with for no reason.
I just want to hear other people reasonings for why this is, because no matter how hard I rack my brain I just cannot really fathom why they're doing this when it only hurts their series and makes it feel more disconnected from everything. When Ash gets to the finals of a Pokemon League with narry a refrence or reserve (something that was consistently brought up by people throughout the League), something is seriously wrong