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>tfw you realised for the first time the anime is just one big advert for the games
>tfw Pokemon teaches you the problem of basing TV series on games or other media
I used to watch Pokemon in the 90s as a kid and have only just come back to it and started thinking about the series. After initially being dumbfounded as to why characters like Misty got dropped, storylines like the GS ball dropped, and Pokemon like Pidgeot never got revisited and were dropped, it dawned on me that the anime is just one massive advert for the games (never played them back then). It means the creators consider the integrity of the storyline utterly secondary to whatever makes sense in terms of selling to the game audience and being relevant to the games. That's why Misty would never return (it makes no sense to give her a proper arc of her own when they can just throw in new pokegirls), why Pidgeot will never be revisited (who cares about such an old Pokemon who's not even relevant to new games) or why tying up loose story threads doesn't matter.
I guess it's forever going to suffer from these things. It's a little bitter to swallow I guess when you watched the early seasons again and realise so much is dispensable and I haven't made it to later seasons yet to have had the time to come to accept that fact, but who knows.
