#im still a little annoyed raboots rebellion was just shrugged off as ‘’lol teen angst’’ when it obviously wasnt set up as such

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i know i said before that the show insisting that there’s this ideological divide between battling and catching pokemon was really dumb, but man i do think they had something with goh being so put off by battles. he’s an introverted guy who prefers isolation, and he’s never properly done a trainer battle, he’s got fresh new pokemon who didn’t fight much- and his new friend entered him in this big shot tournament, surrounded by thousands of people, without his knowledge or consent, and so he gets swept by someone with a lot more experience, and so he gets completely and utterly humiliated. you can clearly see how upset he is later on and i think it does make sense for him to resist battling where he can cause he’s afraid of that same humiliation. if he battled in a more private setting with someone on his level, i don’t think he’d have been so resistant after this. and it was interesting to see this part of him clash with scorbunny later on, who got more interested in battling but wasnt allowed to do it as much.

it’s too bad the writers forgot about that though lol

#im still a little annoyed raboots rebellion was just shrugged off as ‘’lol teen angst’’ when it obviously wasnt set up as such #cmon the evolution is prompted when goh resists training her #and then it looks clearly resentful and annoyed when ash fights the electric gym leader that one time #but ough no goh cant have done a bad thing with lasting consequences (on accident) so ha ha its just silly teen angst ig #i know im asking for a level of complexity pkmn doesnt really like to do but come onnnn #ftr im not trying to be like ‘’OUGHHH ash is a bad friend!!’’ either cause i can see where he was coming from #he wasnt like setting goh up to fail he just wanted to show his friend how cool battles were #and i wouldnt be shocked if after all his travels he’s just kinda forgotten what its like to be a beginner #plus hes not introverted and he doesnt really surround himself with people like that #if ash signed iris up for a random tournament behind her back in bw i think iris would like. be a tad annoyed at not being asked #but be SUPER hyped yknow? and i think thats what ash was working off of #idk like. there was something here where like some kids indirectly hurt each other on accident but they learn to grow past it #echoed voice #jn lb