There's just the 'year gaps' thing you linked to DP. There was only one year gap, and that was because they had to do the Grand Festival, certain key evolutions and captures, rival battles, E4/Brain-battles, Galactic plot finale, the works.. If you take those all out, you only had like perhaps 9 fillers in that entire year? Keeping in mind that there were a few 'promotional'-episodes that were mostly selling Johto for HgSs.. I never felt that there was any stretching in DP, because that arc was just that filled.
Other then that, I agree. Unless it's too complete several arcs and add high level additional battles, I'm inclined to say 6 months tops, but if the former is all added, then I wouldn't object to 8...
Yeah I get that but too many people complained, despite all the non filler, and you know looking back, I actually agree to an extent, no matter how much focus was given on the Pokemon and story plots, nothing was happening in regards to the Pokemon league and gyms.
I do enjoy all the focus and development that was given, but a year really is just too long for that sort of thing.
Which is why 6 months should be the max. A year is about 50 episodes six months is about 25 episodes. I'd really like to see only gaps be only around 25 episodes for gyms. But sure I'll take 8 months only if a lot of interesting things happen like lots of evolutions and development.
But definitely not a year. That's like more than 40 titles with no gym battle in sight. 40 episodes might not seem like a lot but when you equate them to weeks. That's 40 weeks, or 280 days, which is a very long time waiting for something to happen.
That's what I meant, and until we actually get lots of development episodes between long gaps, odds are it will primarily be filler, which is what I don't want.
I'd rather take 3 tournaments 4 episodes a piece for 12 episode plus maybe six episode in between each tournament over some random filler episode that I don't care about.
If there can be a filler that can utilize Ash's underused Pokemon, then great, filler away. If it's only going to involve Pikachu from Ash, whatever from Serena, and whatever from Clemont then no, hell no. I hate those episodes, unless they are action packed like the Subway train two parter, although the 2nd episode was better than the first (and I wasn't even expecting to like that two parter).
So it depends on entirely lots of things. But I definitely don't want pointless episodes, that clearly exist just to make something down the line shorter or rushed.