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@Hidden Mew But when the school ever important? It was just part of the Melemele setting and an excuse for the cast to be together. As far as I know, graduation was never mentioned.
I just don't see why they'd pick the beginning of PM to showcase other regions if the long-term plan were just about Galar.
I think that they referred to Illima as a Pokemon School graduate when he first appeared, but other than that, I don't think that graduation was mentioned. It wasn't a goal for Ash or any of the cast members like fans speculated. I'm just saying that despite the Pokemon School being the main marketing gimmick for SM when it was first announced, it wasn't all that important in the long run. The world traveling aspect is the main marketing gimmick for PM, but that might eventually change as well, or more likely that they'll stay in one location for a longer period of time as opposed to hopping around multiple regions within a few episodes. Ideally, I would like them to give more focus to Galar than the other regions, but equal amount of focus compared to the other regions could work too.
I think Galar is going to get the same level of focus as the other regions. If Galar promotion was their main focus, they would have called the series "Sword and Shield" and fully embraced it. Honestly at this point I don't ever see them going back to a traditional gym circuit. Ash won a league, and I'm pretty sure from the writer's perspective all the league's are on the same level; he beats one, he might as well have beaten them all. Now they're being super vague about what Ash's goal is, but hopefully we'll get clarification in episode 9. Worst case scenario, Ash's goal remains vague for the whole series while the story just focuses on Gou's Mew quest.
That really doesn't make any sense in regards to Leagues. Just because Ash won a League doesn't mean that there wouldn't be any point in going through a traditional Gym quest again. It's especially strange considering that the Alola League wasn't even really on the same level as a regular League. There is a pretty big difference between winning a tournament that's open to everyone and winning a tournament where only certain strong trainers can qualify for. Beating one League doesn't mean that he's beaten them all. By that logic, he shouldn't have bothered to enter the Johto League since he won the Orange Island League. I really doubt that the writers don't see the Leagues in that way either, mainly because we have seen other characters going off to new journeys after winning Leagues and Grand Festivals too.
I also really hope that they aren't going to keep Ash's goal as vague for the whole series. Ash's goal in SM being so vague was a major problem for me. He loved being in Alola, making new friends and meeting new Pokemon, but I couldn't tell what he was getting out of it that he couldn't from traveling around the region in a more traditional format. Neither the Pokemon School or the Island Challenge were important enough to be considered his main objectives in SM as well. Ash not having a clear objective for PM would probably pose a similar kind of problem. Plus, I'm not sure if Go's Mew quest would be interesting enough to focus on for the entire series.
Beatsy Ray said:I'm pretty sure the pacing of the show will slow down quite a lot after every region has been showcased. I think we'll get small batches of episodes in a given region at a time, similar to the Ula Ula/Poni Island arcs in SM. If they keep this rapid-fire region hopping throughout the series that would get really disorienting and I don't think they would be doing the individual regions any service.
I'd hope that the time spent in a single region would be a bit longer than those arcs, but I think that they'll go in that direction as well. It would give them more time to showcase various regions. Jumping around from different regions within just single episodes will probably get boring after awhile, or at least make it harder to make the regions distinct from each other.