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And imagine not understanding the linear progress of time in story telling and development. BW was an aberration from the series up till then, yes, but XY simply continues where DP had built up from, which built up from where BF built up from. XY stands alone only in that it never references the previous series like others did, which is a fair choice on the writers part. However, pretending that XY doesn't stand on DP's shoulders is utterly delusional. OS Ash could never pull off a move as ingenious as using Pikachu as a metronome in order to time Olympia's Future Sight, but if you told me that's something Ash did after DP, then I could believe it.
XYchads and DPchads should be bros and acknowledge each other as important parts of Ash's journey leading to JN, pretending otherwise is just delusional cope.
