Honestly, even with the worst of fillers, I wouldn’t say we’ve had anything like these 2-in-1 episodes in the entirety of the anime. Really the only one that felt like something that could have been an episode in the past was the Magikarp contest. Every one since that have basically felt like them just doing an overly long bit in which Pokémon is supplanted by Yo-Kai Watch, complete with the characters’ IQ dropping off about 30 points.
Yeah that’s probably one of their many goals, which is cool. But that doesn’t really discredit any of the points I made. Once all of the Pokémon have appeared, then what? The series is forced to an abrupt end? It’s not really any kind of indicator as to the length of the series.
Same applies to the Aeroactyl ep. Dawn teaches Ash spin dodge. She does something.
Hell, between the spin dodge, counter shield and Ice Aqua Jet, you can even see a natural feeling of Ash and Dawn being treated as equals as Ash picks up tricks from Dawn that help him during his Sinnoh journey.
Exactly. What has Goh tought Ash?
Goh certainly has a lot to gain from Ash, and one of the big things being learning to have some empathy for others. Though Ash doesn't learn from Goh like he did from Dawn. Unfortunately I can't really think of much he could even learn from Goh. Also, during Ash focused episodes, Goh still gets to make some pointless capture, though when the focus is on Goh, Ash is often on the sidelines. This is unlike DP where Ash still got to do some kind of training or something with his Pokemon even when he's not the focus.
The only Ash focused episodes where Goh doesn't gain a new dex entery are JN012, JN016, JN027 and JN030.
I’d say that all falls in line with the prospect that the writers have hit such a level of creativity bankruptcy that they don’t even do much as try to have Ash learn in return. After all, doing such would mean developing Ash, something that you can surmise from their interviews stating they don’t know how to further develop Ash that they won’t even attempt to because stagnating someone’s character is much easier.
If that's boomer I must be silent generation 'cause I think it all went downhill after AG.
That's maybe a bit stronger in terms than I'd put it, but yeah. That interview pretty much zeroed my interest in the current series, sadly.
I still think DP has had some of the worst episode this anime has ever had, I'd say even worse than the worst of Pokémon (2019). It really peaks in its last year, but god, early DP had me rolling my eyes further than any other anime of any other franchise ever did. I even saw my brain. It was wild.
I agree. The first year/season was a snore. Like, I get that they were ''building a foundation'' for the next years of the series, but I never felt like the plot was really going forward. But I do think a big difference about the first year of DP and the first year of JN, is that JN didn't really laid down any roots tbh.
