>>12806505That is a tragedy for long time fans of the show. Knowing Ash will never succeed, knowing he's just gonna dump all the Pokemon he claims to have a heartfelt friendship for and completely forget about them.
I don't mind the show having a repetitive plot and formula, but would it be better to change protags for every new area? That would probably do a better job of drumming up interest for the games and each new season/area we can have a protagonist with a different personality/attitude. This way all the obvious explanations will make a little more sense if they are actually new trainers.
It's fine if the plots are recycled, the Pokemon game franchise is nothing more then the same plot repurposed over and over with new characters and creatures and features. It's the lack of new characters that bothers me. Enough team rocket, for example, give us some new evil doers to harass the characters.