User blog comment:Ellis99/Pokemon News - 14-09-14/@comment-26573805-20171225004055

Since I've searched the wiki's "Pokémon Wiki:" namespace for any policy about inactive commenting and there is none, I'll just state this here as it is quite relevant to the topic.

As for "Has much more episodes than any other season" for the cons, that's not true - the season has 52 episodes, just like any other season. Yes, the wiki's list pretends that season 1 contains a whopping 82, and that the second season is pathetically short, the wiki's list is wrong. In the 4Kids days, all their seasons would be 52 episodes exactly each regardless of opening theme/arc/saga/journey/whatever which the US DVDs and VHS releases release by (you can see the Australian DVDs have the real official seasons thus they contain 52 episodes per disc for 4Kids seasons). Fansites such as Serebii and the mainspace on this wiki do a horrible job and instead confuse and mislead users on this for no apparent reason whatsoever but unfortunately there's not really any users other than me adamant about pushing to get this highly inaccurate "information" fixed. I have pages in my userspace you can read if you want the actual correct information about where seasons begin and end and not false "information" spread by sites like Serebii, Bulbapedia, Wikipedia, this wiki, and so on. (At least Bulb has accurate lists as of April 2015 but they pretend that Viz Media DVDs use seasons which isn't true - Viz Media has to buy the seasons and organize them by titles to release a DVD, same goes for the VHS tapes around two decades ago back when VHS was a modern thing). Do not believe lies of the 90% of fansites, as they are merely telling half the truth of what seasons are. The official site has seasons organized by the season and where they belong in a series (so the last 12 episodes of the Gold and Silver season 5 batch which are season 6 overall episodes are recognized such ways), and season 1 is 52 episodes; no production season has ever exceeded 52. Also, the Australian DVDs and the channels around the world in non-English speaking countries (where breaks actually exist) have seasons laid out this way; which is why a channel aired season 2 and stopped at Charizard Chills and people ridiculously assumed they'd see the Orange League despite the simple fact that it is apart of season 3 and the network never said they'll air season 3. Similar mistakes are seen on the wiki's articles, which are completely wrong and should not be trusted for this type of information. Serebii's forum threads say "the first season of Pokémon" despite the fact that he lists 28 season two episodes and 3 episodes which are not apart of any season to come up with this inflated ridiculous amount. Just that most are from America where season breaks were essentially short or didn't exist at all but you could see if you looked at where 4Kids Saturday morning seasons began (the 2003-2004 season of the Saturday morning shows began on September 13, 2003 so season 6 of Pokémon in other words began with Address Unown). People claimed when season 1 aired that "they stopped in the middle" which clearly isn't true because they stopped at episode 52 which is the final ep of that season (just that they missed one episode due to oversight) but they pretty much stopped at The Breeding Center Secret, not Friends to the End, not Pallet Party Panic, and not Poké Ball Peril and you can go to any other television network's company building and they'll tell you the same thing.

Which is why when CN in March 2010 said they'll air Johto eps to promote HGSS, they aired season 3 Orange eps instead. Apparently someone in there thought what 90% of the fansites lie about (that Season 3 = Johto when Season 3 really equals Orange+Johto) and told them to air season 3 so they did but it was all just 6 Orange eps they aired. I really thank Dogasu for being pretty much the only fansite to get this through (and half thank Bulbapedia but they still falsely claim that region 1 Viz DVDs even use seasons).

4Kids seasons did not always match opening and plots. It's a set-in-stone concept because any TV network, when they said they'd air season 2 they meant "Princess VS Princess" to "Charizard Chills" not the first to last Orange ep. It's also because this is how the show is sold; companies buy seasons and this is how it works.

I just find that telling people they have to go to me to know how the real seasons work is just unacceptable and that the wiki can do better than this to stop spreading lies and false information. I'm not trying to be confrontational about this, I'm just trying to correct people who get confused and spread negative reviews at season 1 releases because of the simple fact that they contain all 52 episodes (and actually aren't missing 30 or however many episodes people claim they're missing, which is funny because they complain about not getting season 2 episodes considering they didn't announce season 2 episodes anyway).