>>51309816The original show rocks. I've been rewatching it recently for the first time as an adult and I've been having a blast.
Not every episode is great, but a lot of them are, and the rest are still a fun way to spend half an hour.
I won't defend anything past Hoenn but the original show is just plain good anime.
>>51313729I think the best thing to do to change protagonists would have been to set up Max/Masato as the actual next protagonist post-Hoenn. Give him a shit-ton of character development, have him grow up over the 192 episodes, then pass the baton to him at the end and have him be the protagonist of Sinnoh. Then do something similar again down the line after he's had his spotlight for a while.
