>>24719546Bidoof was excellent in his episode. Kind of wish he was the partner instead since there was a couple of times I thought 'I'm an alien with amnesia here in a foreign body. I've got way more reason to be afraid, so man up would you?!' Whereas Bidoof's perseverance in spite of not being very good really endeared me, especially when it culminated with facing off against Jirachi.
Gates seems to forget 'show, don't tell' a lot. I'm fine with the 'everyone's a dick, let's stop them from being dicks' story, even if it's kind of a corny set up, but they really aren't showing it to well. Post Town just seems to go how a normal town does - some good guys, some assholes, mostly in between. Doesn't seem like a place that needs to be cheered up all that much. For it to work, they'd pretty much need to make the majority of the population criminals or something like that.
Also, he's just as cute as he is in Pokemon Amie. Too early to judge, but he's like Grovyle if he had a personality.