Should the Anime have full half-hour episodes AND two segement epiwsodes?

[matt0044]

I saw the thread about the Pokemon Anime having one hour episodes and I saw a post saying that it'd be good if there were episodes that were split into two segments like some Anime for kids (SGT Frog, PPGZ and others) and most American cartoons.

I agree with the latter. Some episodes of Pokemon feel like they drag with unneeded padding such as Team Rocket prior to BW. So if some episodes had two segments and some episodes that were special (like Gym Battles) had a full half-hour feature, I'd think the problem of padding would be somewhat solved. Though I hope it doesn't lead to rushed storytelling but whatever...

What do you think? Should this have happened and if so, how should it happen?

 

[Eitarou]

I'd rather have useless padding than quickly resolved plots.....

 

[Jukain]

What do you mean? Like what they did in early BW with showing the TR doings alongside Ash and co.? Well, I held little problems with that setup except some of them just had TR lurking around and not doing much. They would have to have more substance, like with the ones where TR was doing more. I'm not sure if those eps were anywhere close to 50/50, but there was a fair balance there at least in content. However, I will also stress that the TR plot would have to lead somewhere.