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I don't know, but I don't like it either. I'm not even the biggest Misty and/or Brock fan, I'm even apathetic towards them, it's just that we've grown up with the series and of course watching these two being Ash's companions was a part of our childhood. Nostalgia playing a trick on this movie as well, I do wonder what was the train of thought here.
You can cry as much as you want about the new characters being somehow necessary for the newer generation and the newer generation no longer acknowledging either Misty and/or Brock or not wanting to learn more about them, but would re-introducing them again really make the movie worse in any way? Or maybe they're trying to retcon them as companions in order to age them further (like GS old) so Ash faces against them while still having the new companions.
Fuck if I know. I'm not liking the Chipmunk face syndrome either, it's slowly consuming and taking hold of several characters' designs. And even the pokemon they own have already been overused in previous movies and seasons. Why showcase them again? They could have given them interesting new picks but no, just have them have the popular mons from the fourth generation. Again. Dawn already had Piplup, which we already plenty of in the entire DP seasons plus more Piplups that appeared along the way. Maylene had Lucario. Sir Aaron had Lucario. Cameron had a Riolu which evolved into Lucario. Korrina had Lucario.
Seriously, we have over eight hundred pokemon and Game Freak still insists on using these particularly specific pokemon for further shilling, even though they already have so much popularity.
