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It's no more action packed than SM:
Ash met his classmates, battled Team Skull and got the Z-Ring (1)
Ash battled Tapu Koko and performed a Z-Move for the first time (2)
Team Rocket get Mimikyu (3)
Ash catches Rowlet (4)
Ash meets Litten, who he wants to catch but won't because Stoutland (7)
Lillie gets the Vulpix egg and overcomes a part of her fear (8)
Ash fights and beats Totem Gumshoos, gets Normalium Z (9)
Ash fights and beats Hala, gets Electrium Z (10)
Does none of this matter because Ash isn't traveling? I'm having a hard time accepting this logic.
Traveling is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a whole slew of other problems underwater that make it hard to take the plot of this saga too seriously, and the constant "LOL Random Gaaag!" that plagues this saga isn't helping either.
The problem is that there is an overall lack of dynamism and sense of progress in this saga. There isn't any drive that makes it seem that the plot is going forward, causing things to stagnate way too fast and everything to feel so annoyingly static. And if nothing is done fast, these issues will start to be even more apparent and difficult to solve.
Sure, there are some subplots that have some potential, like Litten and Lillie (and Suiren, maybe?), but other than those, the rest is still stuck in one place. I mean, what do we know about the other students, aside from their families? What are their ambitions? Their goals? Their dreams? Their objectives? Are they working on them? How?
We still know squat about them, which make them look shallow and unnecessary.
I'm not looking at Ash and his fancy Island Challenge since so far he is doing stuff out of lazy promotional obligation than anything else, but the others are inexcusable. I'd rather not get a repeat an Iris/Serena with all of them, thank you. After all, those time-wasting pauses worked sooo well with them, did they?