>>44849356They had a complete shift in writing in Origins after the first two episodes. It was like they wanted to flesh it out but remembered that it's just a special and gave up because they knew revealing the X-variant mega was endgame.
>B-but Charizard wanking friendship is magic!!Red's Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard all job on screen and Charmeleon even gets it's spotlight stolen by Jolteon in EP 2. Red made good use of his other Pokemon, but the writing for Origins 3-4 is so ass that all of their victories are off screen.
Origin's would have been so much better received if it were 8-ish episodes.
