If I remember right, that entire plot thread allegedly would have ended with a whole humans vs Pokemon war, with Ash and Pikachu earnestly trying to kill each other. I'd take that with a grain of salt, though, because the person who said this ragequit the show after the other writers retconned Molly's mom being dead in the third movie.
They did mention the great war as early as the first episode. Thought it was a nod to ww2 since its a japanese show and they did get nuked twice. Wasn’t uncommon for most powerful pokemon to have that kind of capability early on in the series where anyone with hyperbeam could easily level a forest or recreate cinnabar island.
I’m glad the little fucker has finally grown up
Looks like Ash is finally waking up from that coma.
I never thought I'd see the actual day when this would happen. They clearly had no idea what a Pokemon "Master" was and kept him chugging along while also refusing to age him at that. He should've been ditched when the Gen 3 anime started along with Misty and Brock. The games and manga were not afraid to switch characters up so IDK why the mainline anime was an exception. It's a shame that we'll never see how the previous game protagonists (Brendan, Lucas, Hilbert/Hilda, etc) would've been like if they were properly adapted into the anime instead of shoehorning Ash in every generation until now. I remembered watching the OR/AS trailer and being quite intrigued with how they characterized Brendan in such a short clip.
I think the rational is that these anime only places serve to pad out the 3-4 year run-time until the next generation. So that's why they're not "canon" or ever mentioned outside of that one-off episode. But I agree. Many anime-exlusive places were very interesting.
Also I stopped keeping up with the anime back when Ash and the gang were at the Orange Islands with that GS Ball for some reason.Bulbapedia on GS Ball said:
Because of that "the 2010s were a blur" thing, the GS ball stuff may not feel too long ago. Like maybe around a decade or so?
Sounds like this guy had multiple plotlines in mind for this arc that were 'unjustly' suppressed for reasons like it being "too grim" and "completely and utterly against the message of the show, you psychopath".
*throws himself on the floor*
The purpose behind two games releasing is because one game will have things the other won't. This is supposed to encourage players working together to obtain things for each other. If you're wanting to pick up just a singular Pokemon game, you just look at the exclusives on both and pick the game you think has the cooler exclusives.
Pokemon Emerald, obviously
Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire are the easiest games. That's not worth a whole lot when the series is fairly easy overall. But there you go.
It encourages people to trade with each other, which also means people talking about the game at lunch tables and recesses across the country as free advertising.
Um akschually sweaty Crystal was Gen 2.
I thought it was but it just didn't make sense as a follow-up to gold/silver. Let me guess, platinum is the gen 3 remix then? Shit makes no sense...