Only May and Max, especially with your logic here.I think the difference with the last set of Hoso's is the writers had a lack of characters to work with.
Try valid secondary characters that they wanted to explore. Was Ritchie really needed for Oaknapped?and then they had to resort to using bottom of the barrel material
May, May, May, May, May. They can't all be about May. There's Misty, Max, Oak's lab and then there could still be secondary character appearances.Why show Sakura and her Espeon again when they could show May and her Eeveelution? Why show Richie traveling around when they could easily show May in Johto?
(three episodes)I think the reason we saw Richie in so many specials
Apparently, the writers like him. His presence in the last episode can be argued was to create the links between Ash and Silver.is because they wanted to a show a trainer on a journey, but now that we have a more important character on a journey, the writers don't have to resort to using characters most people don't really care about.
Misty was continuing her story but Tracey got the most out of it and he wasn't in Johto!Not to mention a lot of Chronicles was a recap of the previous saga, (that one being Johto), at the time. If we ever get a second series of specials, it'll probably end up being a recap of the events of AG.