>>50719297>The fact that you don't even pretend to care about Ash vs. Alain's impact on the narrativeNONE of the matchups alone have impact on the "narrative", you obtuse little shit, because they all are just means to the end that is getting Ash to fight Leon. Every possible permutation that doesn't have Ash and Leon fighting in the first or the second round has the same impact on the overall PM "narrative" because the single overall thread the Masters 8 has is Ash and Leon eventually fighting (and possibly an Ash vs Iris rematch).
With the individual matchups themselves being weightless as far as the overall story of PM, nobody is emotionally invested in any of the matchups beyond the fanservice aspect. Nobody cares about Lance vs Diantha unless they have a preference for one of those characters, preference which necessarily came from outside PM.
In fact, since the matchups overall DON'T MATTER for PM's narrative, the only reasons to care about them come from OUTSIDE PM: whether you like or not a given champion, whether the champions have this or that thematic conflict, the extra-series baggage a character has, whatever. Nobody particularly cares about Alain as a character and he has literally no other baggage beyond the unfinished business in Kalos, so people are literally justified in expecting that being addressed by PM and just as justified in being completely baffled when the show just has him job to Leon.
Again: you are a goddamn fucking retard. Possibly the dumbest poster on the whole of /padt/, and that is quite a feat considering the quality of retardation that infests this cesspool.