What would the show be like without fillers.

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If the show did not have fillers i would say the anime would be dull and would go by fast. What do you think.
 
Agreed. I don't think there's any other answer. There would be a huge time gap in between episodes then if it were just gym battle eps.
 
The show would be too bland. Fillers can be very enjoyable and give some exposure into the culture of the Pokémon world (even though most of it is lifted straight from Japan or other places). Now, if the show had a reasonable amount of non-formulaic filler, on the other hand...
 
Sleet said:
The show would be too bland. Fillers can be very enjoyable and give some exposure into the culture of the Pokémon world (even though most of it is lifted straight from Japan or other places). Now, if the show had a reasonable amount of non-formulaic filler, on the other hand...
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yea some fillers are can be stupid, they make no sense sometimes. But i love the fillers. With out them, each generation would be so small. i can understand that the Orange Islands was just a huge filler arc b/c to have time for the release of G/S. But why do some people hate fillers so much.
 
well, it'd be either very short, or the writers would have to develop a plot. Something that I think we all want. Kinda like how the Special does it.
 
Franklin93 said:
But why do some people hate fillers so much.
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Because many of them, especially in Johto and some parts of Hoenn, are boring, formulaic and inconsequential. I don't think anyone hates all fillers entirely.
 
well if there were no fillers at all,season fillers or episode fillers, it would be basically the first season over and over.

As far as season fillers go I liked Battle Frontier because it brought back several of ash's old pokemon for battles and characters like Agatha showed up. Orange League on the other hand I hated the only good thing about that season was snorlax.

Episode fillers on the other hand can go either way but I actually liked the Johto fillers especially over the D/P fillers. D/P fillers are all basically either Team galactic or "hey lets do some Training" while Ash and Dawn constantly pat each-others backs far too much. It seems mature but repetitive as hell with far to much of everything we have seen b4 and ash losing at things he shouldn't at this stage.
 
Impossible feat. It's a show of advertisement. They need eps like the filler ones to feature as many Pokemon as they can from the region.
 
Fillers are awesome >D The show would be crap without them!
 
It'd be just like the Indigo season. We would rush to the league, finish it and then have a huge amount of time where there isn't anything to showcase (since gamefreak haven't come up with any new game) and the anime would have to go on a tangent, like the Orange Islands.
 
PDL said:
It'd be just like the Indigo season. We would rush to the league, finish it and then have a huge amount of time where there isn't anything to showcase (since gamefreak haven't come up with any new game) and the anime would have to go on a tangent, like the Orange Islands.
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Or they could bring us back to Johto for the Battle Frontier...

As the others said, it'd be rushed and too quick. I don't like fillers myself, but some fillers are enjoyable.
 
It would suck without fillers. This isn't some manga-based series where fillers can ruin a pre-established plot.
 
Character deveolpment would be much less without fillers, its some of the fillers that some character and pokemon deveolpment happens, some characters would not even appear. Totally suck. No stop action would lead to confusion in how on earth Ash could win Gyms without practising and not knowing how he trains would be worse or how he or anyone else interacts with their pokemon so they can battle with them and be friend with them.

Pikachu would definatly not be seen the same way thats for sure.
 
Fillers are good, its only when there's too many of them and they follow the same generic formula of Ash helping a trainer that they get stale.

I think the bigger problem is having to look forward to something between Ash's Gyms. Kanto and Orange were so short it didn't matter, but once the regions started to be stretched out over 150 episodes, we need some substance or else nobody is going to watch.
 
then the anime would be over in less then 50 episodes. And would be boring. Hurray for fillers! (except for the johto ones, they were boring as hell, which I don't say quickly about Anime/cartoons)
 
There will be no "Do you Hear a Ralts" and "Claydol Big and Tall" and other memorable episodes. It would just be a boring show, some of the most memorable episodes are fillers.
 
I think every show needs fillers. Otherwise the whole Sinnoh league would be 40 episodes total or something really short.
 
I agree that fillers are important.

the show would be to dull, and some of the fillers happen to be really good!
 
Without fillers Pokémon anime would have ended years ago. o_O I mean, there's only 8 gyms in one region, that would be only 8 episodes + a few episodes with the traveling between them (which would include capturing Pokémon). Unless every episode would include capturing a new Pokémon and sending it to the PC, but with this episode amount it would be counted as a filler too.
 
If you were to watch the show and skip the fillers, here is how it would be:

- Watch any episode where the main characters capture or evolve one of their Pokemon

- Watch any Gym episode

- For AG/DP, watch any Contest episode

- Watch the Grand Festival

- Watch the league

- Watch any episode with the villain teams, (whether it be Team Rocket, Team Magma/Aqua, Pokehunter J, or Team Galactic)

- Watch any mini-arc that is related to an important event, like the tag battle arc in DP, or the St. Anne episodes.

- Watch any episode where some character development or backstory happens.

- Watch any episode where the rival of the region appears, such as any Gary/Paul/Barry/Drew/Harley/Zoey/Kenny episode.

- Watch the first ep and last ep of every region.


And...if you were to only watch those eps, the show would probably be only about 150 eps at the most, and this is with every region combined.
 
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