>>43697746You say Shudo should be respected because "he had an actual direction" but that direction is garbage that's only a old man's whiny believes in the world.
And yes, I'd rather have those series over that ending, because it introduced so many good characters, because Ash himself wasn't "constatly reset" (which is just a blatant lie that rose from the controversial BW anime) and because the latter series felt more like the actual Pokémon games than anything in OS like characters not using their game designs, presence of real-life animals, Ash not actually winning most of his badges, "Aim for the horn", the Pokémon League going to hell because of Team Rocket but let's blame Ash because yolo, and so many other stupid things. None of those were good writing, and the ending wouldn't have been any better.
Let's go even further than that: endings don't mean jack shit. Do you have any idea of how many awful stories and arcs with endings exist out there? Let me just cite the Zamasu arc from Dragon Ball as an example: it's an awful story, there's no respect towards power scaling, it has asspulled techniques and the whole time travel issue is just outright impossible to properly explain. That thing had an ending, because it's awful, just like the rest of the story, and even if it were any better, it wouldn't have fixed the core issues with the story. It's very easy to pretend that endings automatically lead to good writing, but reality is: a story's quality isn't defined by them.
>He honestly had some questionable ideas but that doesn't erase the fact he also left behind memorable ideas and conceptsMemorable they were indeed, because of how ridiculous they were. "Let's throw a dinosaur skeleton for movie 3!"
