>>18735430Part of Misty's character in the original was her obsession with things like beauty (she even calls herself beautiful when introducing herself as her catchphrase) and love despite just being a kid, due to being overshadowed by her more feminine sisters all the time.
A lot of the time, she tries to give profound love advice without knowing what she's even talking about, and those scenes where she gets awkward when someone who's actually mature enough to flirt with Ash are there to show her immaturity, not that she has any actual feelings for him. Do you think she loves Brock too just because she cockblocks him all the time?
There's also the fact how you keep clinging to the second movie, when it's well known that everything but the very basics of the movies don't necessarily apply to the canon of the TV series.
