Assuming TR and Ash are going to Paldea properly, what I'd love to see is TR posing as teachers through the whole series so they can spy on ash, with of course Ash not recognizing that two or three of his teachers are actually his foes.
Still watching through Johto, random observations:
Love that Jessie and meowth have just stopped even trying to snap James out of it when the bottlecap obsession kicks in. They just shrug and go, "Yep, James's brain is Bottlecap Mode (TM), cannot be manually disengaged".
Jessie turning into the human incarnation of my ADD whenever hotsprings come up
The fact that they animated all of the kids hair when they're sliding down the mountain, but James's just kind of sticks out behind him and doesn't move. Did he borrow Jessie's hairspray?
Didn't Ash see Articuno in the second movie? Am I just really mixed up? Did I somehow manage to watch everything out of order? Movie 2 is Orange Islands though? I'm so confused.
Love that the kids falling into a canyon is a huge deal and Articuno needs to stop them from falling while they're halfway down and even then they're implied to black out for a bit. Meanwhile Team Rocket falls off the same canyon with no help at all, makes a big hole in the ground and just pops back up like it's nothing
Speaking of which, ASH KETCHUM, YOU NEED TO STOP FALLING OFF OF CLIFFS AND SUCH THIS INSTANT, THAT CANNOT BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH YOUNG MAN
Brock activating Big Brother mode always makes me smile
Did Benny just train wobbuffet really well before he traded him or is Wobbuffet just naturally gifted? Holy moly, Wobbuffet!