If they have a new lead girl, I hope she has some attitude, maybe even someone that not afraid to break a few rules.
You mean like Green from the "Pokemon Adventures" manga? I doubt the show would be able to correctly handle someone like her.
I thought the original cast had the best chemistry, and when I say the original cast I mean the whole cast including Team Rocket.
QFT. Back in the first series, Ash and Pikachu had a touching bond, Ash Misty and Brock had fun interactions, and Team Rocket gradually became more "friendly enemies" to the group. I just don't get any of that with the current show. Ash is a boring hero who's only interested in battles, Brock never has anything interesting to say to anyone, I cannot buy Ash and Brock being good friends with Dawn at all, and Team Rocket are just annoying bad guys now.
Misty was not a foil for Ash, but also a foil for Team Rocket and especially Jessie. She has called Jessie an old lady, old hag, witch, etc. I find the Misty vs Jessie episodes more entertating than the contest tournaments in which May and Dawn competted against one of Jessie's alto ego.
Agreed. Probably because Misty and Jessie didn't feel the need to be coordinators. They were good rivals on their own. But of course, this was before the show decided that being a coordinator is all a major female character is good for, Jessie included.
One thing I liked about Advanced was there was a 4th traveling companion (even if some people hated Max, 4 characters offered a bit more interesting dynamic in my eyes
The thing about Max I'll always defend is that he gave May someone close to interact with. Currently it's just Ash, Brock, and Dawn and Dawn alone interacting with the bland Ash and Brock makes Dawn blander herself. May and Max's freshness could actually balance out Ash and Brocks' staleness while they were around.
Regarding Max I enjoyed him in Hoenn, but not in Battle Frontier. In Hoenn he had quite a number of episodes, and he used to make fun of Ash and argue with his sister. Granted he did become useless as time went on, but you can't say the writers didn't give him some eps, as well as the 6th movie.
Max got more and more useless as AG went on; Battle Frontier was when he just stopped being all that interesting. Shame, since there was potential in him back in his earliest episodes.
I was watching a rerun from Jhoto the other day on Boomerang, and they had a character of the week (she did return in an episode the following seasons) named Cassey. She was tomboyish, and tough. But clearly younger than Ash, so Ash could be more of a mentor of big brother to this type of character. That is the type of girl would be perfect for the new female lead.
I remember Casey. She was set up as one of the more "major" minor characters yet she never showed up at the Silver Conference. A similar character was there instead, filling the spot that had obviously been intended for Casey before she got dropped for some reason or other. One of the earlier examples of wasted potential the anime did.
The only thing that keeps the show fresh is the new characters. Since Dawn and her rivals are likely leaving, and so is Paul and Barry I gather, it seems like all the new DP characters are on their way out.
Correct on the new characters thing. Even though I haven't liked some of the new characters in Sinnoh (like Kenny or Paul or even Barry), they're much more worthwhile to me than the characters who've been here for ages and do the same ol, same ol. They "liven up a dead show" as I like to say. (Though none did so as much as Harley. I still miss him.
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I hope Brock finally kicks the bucket. I actually think I got banned for 2 days on another forum for saying how Brock was useless.
Woah, you wish Brock were dead? And why should you have gotten banned for saying Brock was useless? That should be common knowledge! Why are there still so many people willing to defend Brock when he does
nothing?
