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Anonymous commented at 2014-06-15 22:28:34 » #1552519
Ash never noticed any of the previous "quality girlfriends" but they never noticed him either. The girl actually having a real crush on Ash is already breaking the 15-year-old pattern, who's to say more patterns won't be broken?
Not saying it will be permanent, but literally having Ash never know about her until she leaves would be pretty mean-spirited.
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Ash never noticed any of the previous "quality girlfriends" but they never noticed him either. The girl actually having a real crush on Ash is already breaking the 15-year-old pattern, who's to say more patterns won't be broken?
Not saying it will be permanent, but literally having Ash never know about her until she leaves would be pretty mean-spirited.
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Anonymous commented at 2014-06-16 14:00:04 » #1552870
@anon7
Nothing was done to Misty (or May/Dawn/Iris) that wasn't also done to Brock, Tracey and Cilan. The idea of the previous girls leaving the group carrying any more weight than the guys leaving the group is based on shipping-goggle-influenced ideas about the romantic interest that they didn't actually have.
If you want to have letting Serena's actual feelings for Ash plodding along all season with no resolution be compared to previous anime events, the GS Ball is the best analogy. It would be like that; straight-up dropping an actual foreshadowed plot point, whereas with Misty/May/Dawn/Iris the writers can only be accused of disappointing shippers.
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@anon7
Nothing was done to Misty (or May/Dawn/Iris) that wasn't also done to Brock, Tracey and Cilan. The idea of the previous girls leaving the group carrying any more weight than the guys leaving the group is based on shipping-goggle-influenced ideas about the romantic interest that they didn't actually have.
If you want to have letting Serena's actual feelings for Ash plodding along all season with no resolution be compared to previous anime events, the GS Ball is the best analogy. It would be like that; straight-up dropping an actual foreshadowed plot point, whereas with Misty/May/Dawn/Iris the writers can only be accused of disappointing shippers.
17 Points Flag
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