>>45995413SM foregoing bringing her back for a bad sentai reference along with them bumblefucking my favorite legendary ultra necrozma is what really made me despise SM. I just found it boring and disappointing before that, but foregoing a character with an attachment to Ash, relevance to the ultra beasts, and an actually interesting arc. But no, why be good when you can have le funny faces and Sentai references! I feel like this was their concession that they had no intention of being good and I'm glad I skipped out on most of it.
Just in case I get swarmed with "SM is good because muh gay lillie ship" I just want to say. Remember when you lot thought just like in the game Lillie would be the Moon to Ash's sun? and then the arc had Gladion take that role as a green/black ranger and then he got to have more physical contact with Ash than Lillie ever will in canon? If Aurelia isn't just a really desperately cobbled together amour counter ship then you guys should understand.