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Where in the world did Brock (and Dawn) go?

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TheDarkTwins said:
I sometimes get bored and watch an episode. I don't really watch the show anymore ever, but I did catch the first four or five episodes of B/W by pure chance. The issue I had was why did Ash get dumber? He like forgets everything including how to catch a Pokemon, yet he just made the T4 (I think) of the previous Region. To me that makes no freakin' sense. I mean why did he lose all the knowledge he learned from the past 10 years of the show. He has never had an issue knowing how to catch Pokemon and what types to battle save for the first season (which was understandable), but to go back just makes the show completely unwatchable, if it wasn't already that way.

I do understand about Brock not being on the show. They wanted to promote more of B/W in the show. However, not sure that I agree with the choice after seeing those first 5 episodes.

Just my thoughts on it.

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Don't forget to mention that he lost to a LEVEL 5 Snivy (most likely, I mean it was just fresh out of the lab) with a probably LEVEL 90 (at least) Pikachu. :nonono:
 
toxictaipan said:
Don't be silly. Grass types are resistant to electricity!
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Lol. Riiiiiiight. In the anime:

Shock Wave can miss >_>
Pikachu cannot OHKO Snivy with Quick Attack
Pikachu can survive at least three hits from a ground type move
And LOTS more crap

Anyways, back on topic, I think that they will appear eventually... just like May did in... Battle Dimensions?
 
Brock is gone, hanging out with the series episodes that will never be aired here in the USA.......
 
I've been paying attention to the Japanese episodes. I can't believe that they would have (Look in spoiler if you must) travel with Ash.
SPOILER: HIGHLIGHT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Meowth is traveling with Ash, Iris, and Cilan. Not just any Meowth. The Team Rocket one. Really. He got "fired" from Team Rocket and somehow this happened.
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platinumwaiter said:
Don't forget to mention that he lost to a LEVEL 5 Snivy (most likely, I mean it was just fresh out of the lab) with a probably LEVEL 90 (at least) Pikachu. :nonono:
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Wasn't Red's Pikachu something like lv. 85 in Kanto? Ash's Pikachu is supposed to be equivalent, but here we are 4 regions later, while every time near the end, Ash's Pikachu is competing in big, high level tournaments (like against that one Latios, give me a break!), but every time it comes to a new region it is weak and pitiful.

My theory: Between regions, Pikachu visits Mystery Dungeon Land and the Anime staff feeds it a truckfull of doom seeds so that they can have "evenly matched" gym battles and rivals that don't get annihilated by that overtrained rodent.

Not sure how else it could work. (Ash, "Pikachu, Iron Tail that LV.5 Snivy! BAM! snivy's ina nother continent.")
 
AlmightyGoldenGarchomp said:
Wasn't Red's Pikachu something like lv. 85 in Kanto? Ash's Pikachu is supposed to be equivalent, but here we are 4 regions later, while every time near the end, Ash's Pikachu is competing in big, high level tournaments (like against that one Latios, give me a break!), but every time it comes to a new region it is weak and pitiful.

My theory: Between regions, Pikachu visits Mystery Dungeon Land and the Anime staff feeds it a truckfull of doom seeds so that they can have "evenly matched" gym battles and rivals that don't get annihilated by that overtrained rodent.

Not sure how else it could work. (Ash, "Pikachu, Iron Tail that LV.5 Snivy! BAM! snivy's ina nother continent.")
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Yea, exactly. Either that or after each Region the Pokemon levels go up 30. o_O Yes, and that would stop at level 100... But then how will they evolve? xD
 
im confused ash is supposed to be something like 26 brocks supposed to be like 40 and iris is 10 and she calls him a little kid and dawn did she get like kidnapped by brock or something she just dropped off the face of the earth and last but not least officer jenny stop yelling arcanine at your pokemon when it's a GRoulith:lol:
 
According to Wikipedia it seems like Brock will never be returning to the pokemon series. However the next season after pokemon black and white rival destines (Pokemon Pocket masters Best Wishes Season 2) Cynthia the champion of the sinnoh region will be joined by ash and his friends to compete in the upcoming world tournament. Also Ash's old companion Dawn will also join them too.
 
cvmerchanary said:
Ash is really always been in a coma and made up the whole idea of pokemon in his head. All of his adventures were all made up. Notice caterpie is the "caterpillar pokemon" how in the world do they know what a caterpillar is? And what is in those burgers? Tarous? Miltank? And Ash is a big fat liar all the time making all these stupid promises. Coming back for primeape?Meeting the Samurai again. Visiting pidgeot? I loved the old character of Ash cause he made me want to go and get my dreams (I was around 4 when I first watched the show) now this new Ash is still somehow 10 (even though they recognize the anniversary of ash and pikachu meeting in the pichu bros special. Pokemon has so many gaps in the story which makes the TV show really, really annoying.
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Will you shut up about the Ash Ketchum Coma Theory already? It's completely false. Nintendo and Game Freak would've said something about this already If Ash really was in a coma and with the way they made the Anime/Manga series it wasn't even intentional especially on Satoshi Tajiri's part when he made the Pokemon series. It's bad taste when everyone goes out to make the Pokemon Anime look nothing more than a huge conspiracy theory that was devised by the Japanese Government somehow and don't get me started with the whole Lavender Town theory from Generation I.

Thing is the Pokemon franchise wasn't intended to go past Generation II being Johto and with the success of the video games and such Nintendo and Game Freak felt the need to continue the series further despite that the Original Manga series for Pokemon ended after Generation II, so from then on the Anime was mainly used as a marketing tool for the franchise where alot of the same stuff is repeated over and over again hence why people started getting these crazy theories about the Anime and such to the point where they try to ruin people's childhoods of the Anime series growing up.
 
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RandyDragon said:
So supposedly Brock is never coming back but yet Dawn is? Why her? Why not Misty?
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Because Misty is busy at the Cerulean City Gym in Kanto being a Gym Leader considering how lazy her sisters are running the Gym, infact at this point they've already left the Gym to Misty for herself.
 
The real world reason is the writers don't care enough for Misty to have her show up anymore. They gave her the bare minimum of appearances during Hoenn because they were gradually phasing her out at the time and then had her stop appearing altogether after that.

That's also why in the transition from new girls, such as when May left and when Dawn came, or when Dawn left and Iris came...there is NO Misty appearance at Pallet Town anymore. The writers clearly don't want to remind people of Misty when a new girl leaves and is replaced by another one.

At this point of the series Misty really was just a short-lived character in the anime, the show is currently in its 15th year and she was only around for the first 5...so she didn't even make it to the halfway point of the anime. She was also the shortest-lived classic Kanto character of the show, as Ash, Team Rocket and Brock are all in double the amount of episodes she's in.

I really don't understand why people still sit there year after year expecting to see Misty show up. We knew back when Hoenn was airing for the first time all the way back in 2003-2005 that Misty was being phased out of the series entirely...and looking back now in 2012, we were right.
 
precita said:
The real world reason is the writers don't care enough for Misty to have her show up anymore. They gave her the bare minimum of appearances during Hoenn because they were gradually phasing her out at the time and then had her stop appearing altogether after that.

That's also why in the transition from new girls, such as when May left and when Dawn came, or when Dawn left and Iris came...there is NO Misty appearance at Pallet Town anymore. The writers clearly don't want to remind people of Misty when a new girl leaves and is replaced by another one.

At this point of the series Misty really was just a short-lived character in the anime, the show is currently in its 15th year and she was only around for the first 5...so she didn't even make it to the halfway point of the anime. She was also the shortest-lived classic Kanto character of the show, as Ash, Team Rocket and Brock are all in double the amount of episodes she's in.

I really don't understand why people still sit there year after year expecting to see Misty show up. We knew back when Hoenn was airing for the first time all the way back in 2003-2005 that Misty was being phased out of the series entirely...and looking back now in 2012, we were right.
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I don't really think it's because they don't like Misty, more of that it was easier to replace her with a new female character who related to the new generation (and acted as a medium for new viewers who know very little about the series). It's a marketing maneuver plain and simple.

Though I do agree that the chances of her showing up are normally fairly slim. Although they might throw in a cameo depending on how they handle the PWT stuff.
 
Poke Trainer J said:
Will you shut up about the Ash Ketchum Coma Theory already? It's completely false. Nintendo and Game Freak would've said something about this already
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I think simultaneously you misunderstand the point of story-theme theories, and you misunderstand the way PR and story transparency works...
 
TheRolesWePlay said:
I don't really think it's because they don't like Misty, more of that it was easier to replace her with a new female character who related to the new generation (and acted as a medium for new viewers who know very little about the series). It's a marketing maneuver plain and simple.
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Read entry 2 of the Takeshi Shudo blogs:

http://www.freewebs.com/rocketshipper/entry2.htm

Shudo was the main writer of Kanto/Orange and parts of Johto before he stepped down somewhere in the middle. According to him Misty was never intended to be an important character to the series, and he felt she was the, "least justified" main cast member at the time. What's surprising is they were also planning on getting rid of Team Rocket at the end of Johto too, but decided to keep them.
 
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