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So I just watched the first two episodes of X/Y and so far, I'm impressed. Not only did Ash state, 'I want to win the league, THIS TIME.', which implies implications, he didn't magically forget the various Pokemon of other regions... the way he battled Clemont was pretty good too.
I also noticed how there was a lot of destruction in the first two episodes... which leads me to believe this is going to be a very action oriented saga. Furthermore, the fact they're using destruction so early seems to imply that they want to avoid another Earthquake related episode cancellation... by that I mean:
>nature related catastrophe
>'You need to cancel the upcoming episode with action and awesome and boom booms.'
>'Oh, what's the big deal? X/Y already had destruction of buildings (X/Y Ep2+) and no one had any issues then.'
>'That's a good point, never mind then.'
I think they canceled the Plasma ones because that was the first time B/W was entering that territory. Now that it's already out of the way and can be referenced like above, I think the writers have a lot more in store to make this saga exciting and full of 'danger'.