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.
Drew
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:
Don't be silly. Grass types are resistant to electricity!
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.
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:
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.")
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.
RandyDragon said:So supposedly Brock is never coming back but yet Dawn is? Why her? Why not Misty?
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.
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
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.