>>38309516BW was meh, but honestly it wasn't that terrible as everyone else made it out to be. Iris was annoying but it was fun to see her and Ash bicker with one another occasionally, which the episode near the end of the series where they had a fight but made up was kind of adorable. They had the occasional good battles but the way Ash loses to a mumbling idiot was probably way worse compared to other series by a long shot. If they wanted Ash to lose, then just have him at least lose to someone decent like the Eevee guy whatever is name is, but instead they have him loose to a guy who had a riolu who evolved into a lucario just so they could shill the pokemon for the BW2 games where he spawns at. Also Team Plasma was pretty boring and lame.
And finally for SM. While there are a few good episodes and battles, overall the series is a mess. It tries way to hard to be funny to the point it's more annoying than anything, all while degrading Ash where he couldn't even do things anymore to make everyone else around him look better. Ash in past series have been shown to do pretty cool things, but now he can't even jump properly without failing or looking like an idiot. The group is too big to focus on individually, any big plot points were quickly done and were done poorly (poor Necrozma, his arc could have been done way better), and it's mostly just them staying in a single spot without much progress being made. The entire series itself feels more like an unnecessary filler than an actual series to show Ash and other characters' progression and success. Also Guzma should have been introduce much sooner.
(2/2)
