>>33058910i only watched one episode of BW, which was the one were team rocket was kidnapping audinos by using mind control soundwaves, i really liked how smart TR was in that episode, they weren't after the main gang, but rather they were minding their own business and being what they are, criminals, once the main gang found them and defeat them instead of just waiting there to get blasted off, they just pulled some jetpacks and flew away.
i've read that they're like this through the entire bw series, which sounds great, after all this time you would expect them to realize that this pikachu is not worth their time.
Now i've been watching SM since the beginning and if it wasn't for the weird artstyle and overuse of silly gags and faces, it would be a totally ok series.
Like, there are some episodes where the gags work, like in one episode where Ash lost his Z crystal and he was scared that kiawe would get mad at him for not having care with something so important, and you see kiawe appears behind ash with this demon like face and it's just funny, but then there's another episodes, like the last one where lana and ash are talking about going for fishing and ash makes like 7 silly faces in less than 5 minutes and it's really cringy bad
overall i still think SM has a lot of potential but they need to seriously tone down the retarded gags