User blog comment:FailureAsh/The Big Problem with the Pokémon Anime/@comment-32781169-20190316003824

I see... Though I do kind of agree with your article and the arguments made, you kind of went overkill (that's not a bad thing). I mean, I've watched a lot of the anime, and it started to get predictable by Gen 4. Ash lost 1 big Pokémon League in the first anime, which was OK. It's good to teach kids that losing is not a failure thing. He lost his 2nd one in Johto which felt weird, but it was still a good lesson. In Hoenn, it just got reused again and it felt fishy. By Sinnoh, I knew that they were gonna use the same formula because you can't do that for just that many times. Sure, Ash has had a LOT of memorable moments, but I feel the writers and just taking down his work. He trained pre-evolved Pokémon to show they were stronger than their evolved forms. Still lost. He trained a new alternate-form of a Pokémon that was never discovered. Still lost. I'm also assuming that his first Mythical Pokémon (Meltan) might either evolve or not, but will share a strong bond with him, yet to lose to the people at the Pokémon League. Ash is kind of going in circles and it starts to get boring. Even if every episode comes up with some great plot or it has a really touching or sad moment, we all know it's just filler for Ash to slowly lose the great finale. This is mostly why I stopped watching by Gen 5. The anime isn't entirely bad, but geez, the writers need something original. I mostly only still watch the anime because of the backstories of the secondary characters or Ash's buddies.