I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the new pokémon series are SO DAMN REPETATIVE!
In the old (first) series, there was a real storyline thing and team rocket popped up occasionaly (each 2 eps or so)
In all of the new series, each episode is exactly the same!:
- Ash going to a new town, getting to know someone
- the "someone"'s pokemon is taken away by people in weird clothes
- ash follows them
[optional] they catch ash or his pokemon
- the ppl with weird clothes, throw their clothes off and say that they are team rocket.
- ash or his friends defeat them
- they leave to the next town...
I think its that back in the first series everything was original. Now, they are using tired, old concepts from the first series that really make it hard to want to watch it. I'll suffer through though, because I love Dawn, but yeah...It just doesn't seem original anymore...