>>50662263A. this entire series is blatant fan service.
B. it's not fanservice, It's correcting a wrong
C. Bringing a character back and setting up the obvious expectation of a rematch only to deliver on something with no substance what so ever, is actual bad writing.
>>50662265Because bringing back the frog and talking about Ash-Greninja and then bringing back Alain when there was plenty of suitable candidates set up the obvious premise that everyone INSTANTLY got excited for. Don't you fucking act like this thread wasn't on fire with the hype for a rematch, let alone the rest of the community begging and screaming for it. The writing choices they went with set up a premise for the audience that they got excited for, which then wasn't delivered on. Either they knew what they were doing, in which case it's false advertising, or they didn't know what they were doing and they're so incompetent they couldn't see the obvious implications of their own writing.
