>>16671022>If there was no filler a season would be about 8-10 episodesYeah, if the writers were fucking shitheads.
Hell, just actually incorporating and expanding on more of the storylines of the actual games to accompany the "character of the day has problems with his Pokemon/traveling along generic paths and generic forests" epsiodes would reduce the need for filler by something like two thirds and still keep the same season length.
I should have known Unova was fucked when the ONLY episode to take place in Accumula town was bullshit aobut John George mistaking a black painted Meowth for an Umbreon rather than introducing Team Plasma and N.