I forgot about the entire Porygon line, though I at least get why they don't. TBH Porygon at least got an episode, which is fine by me seeing as I've only ever liked Porygon 1.0 over the others. :P
As for the above conversation, it kind of reminded me that there was once a time when Pokemon weren't on the show to either fight or be eye candy.
Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember when I stopped watching around mid Advanced Generation, the Pokemon of the Day was usually introduced in the blandest of the bland scenarios compared to the first season. That's not even a rose tinted glasses thing. If anything, that's more of an early installment weirdness thing, where they experimented a heck of a lot more before they settled into a comfortable mediocrity and formula.
Has any other Pokemon had quite the same introduction as the Squirtle Squad?
Maybe Treecko. Even then, that was still different, but at least the last interesting Pokemon story I can think of up until the PMD special. Caterpie's whole backstory was pretty interesting, too. Let's not even forget the first episode itself. They made sure to create a real bond between Ash and Pikachu from the get go. Island of the Giant Pokemon, Tentacool and Tentacruel, Ghost of Maiden's Peak, The Song of Jigglypuff, that one episode where Ivysaur and Venusaur were beating Ash's Bulbasaur (or something) because he wouldn't conform...
I would like more of those, less:
I am a Pokemon. I might be part of a non too stimulating but uniterestingly feral pack, I don't want to offend anybody. I might be a loner, and I might just play up tired archtypes that are dialied down to lukewarm. I might even be a little silly but not too much because I want to keep my cute eye candy composure. Oh look, Team Rocket. D'oh, they got me. Blah blah blah the end
It's almost as if some unheard of organization installed chips into every last Pokemon in the show which shocks them if they have too much fun or show too much emotion. Ugh, I'm getting worked up over this fluff. I'm too old for this. >_<