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>Writers trying to salvage the series with funny faces, thinking it'll keep the children around for much longer
I'm sorry, but I think maybe children just want to see some pokemon battles rather than seeing Ash or any human character for that matter do some obnoxious/unsettling/shocking face towards a not-so-common situation for the seventh time.
It's already enough to have Ash not look like he's matured at all despite all these seasons, but the writers still have this undying need to make the audience care about Ash even though we've already seen over and over the non-existent payoff that there will be after every season, which makes one care even less about him. If you're gonna do that shit to him every time Game Freak shits out a new game and a new season is born, at least make the pokemon battles more prominent. Adding the school shit was simply adding more insult to injury. The only people that care about the human characters are rabid shippers and loli fuckers at this point.
