Weedle, although I don't agree with you on everything, I have to admit that Pokemon lacks a female that isn't a butch lesbian like Nozomi nor a girly girl like Hikari. With the new girl, I hate how she replaced the only other tomboyish yet not butch heroine in the series. I also heard that she Kotone (the new HGSS girl) may do contests and that makes me mad how they make every girl do contests.
I don't know why having a girl like Misty would be so hard for them.
Yeah, I agree. I mean, there are quite a few girls who don't like that image of Girls (Heck, Ariel, the Little Mermaid, was popular and almost legendary due to the fact that she was the first Disney Princess to not be that kind of stereotypical girl. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for her OR her movie, Disney would have shut down.). Unfortunately, some people (IE, Piplup from BMGf) seem to be under the delusion that in order for a female character to even be considered remotely popular to the target audience, the girls HAVE to be that overly girly. Even when I or Pokemon Fan 132 tried to supply anything to the contrary, he still seems to believe it, and in my case, he mocks me/us.
BTW, this doesn't exactly relate to Misty in any way other than what may end up happening if she doesn't return, but...
On SPPf, someone had apparantly "found" evidence that there "may" be an episode where Dawn is "nude", and the Pokemon Contest is "held" at a "Hot Spring", and supplying a "magazine scan" that apparantly "confirmed" it.
Of course, soon thereafter, it ended up being dismissed as a hoax (and it took a while before Serebii caught on and removed the title on the site). Initially, I was glad that it was resolved as a Hoax, but then I realized that we probably haven't completely confirmed it (not yet, anyways), and that, for all I know, that may end up being ironically true (ironic in the sense that what was originally made like a hoax actually ended up being legit in the end), so I'm waiting for TVTokyo (or whatever the Japanese version of TVguide is) to announce the new DP147 title before I can completely dismiss it as a hoax.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I DO want it to be a Hoax, and I'm hoping that it is one, but on the other hand, considering how Pokemon is getting more risque by the minute (I mean, we had May posing in a LOT of bathing suits, not to mention being tied with Marina for having the largest boobs on a ten year old, her even stripping into a swimsuit in Brave the Wave [not to mention some shots of Brock staring at May's "assets"], Dawn showing off outfits that DEFINITELY would not be acceptable wear (like the cheerleading/maid/loli outfits. Plus Jessie [kinda] appearing naked and a near-viewing of Giovanni's butt (cringes at the thought) in "Hot-springing a leak", so it would only be a matter of time before they actually do end up going through an episode like the hoax described, DP147 or not, and whether I like it or not.).
I can't really give you SPPf's version of the thread, but I can at LEAST give you the BMGf version of the thread so you can see what I'm talking about:
https://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=43447
It's closed, but you can still see what happened.
EDIT: You know, call me paranoid, but I think I need to make absolute certain the plotline/title/scan is a hoax even IF the title isn't the same (meaning, I'm gonna have to wait until the episode actually airs). I mean, with pre-summaries, they sometimes leave very important parts of the episode out (tied to the main plot, I mean). For example, when the Hippowdon episode was first unveiled with the summary, they didn't mention the fact that Butch and Cassidy would be appearing in the episode and be the main antagonists. I also cannot trust previews due to the fact that they are misleading (like the Buizel capture episode, where it was made in such a way that made it seem like Ash was the one who captured it instead of Dawn), and if there is a Hotspring, she isn't shown to be nude in any way (she can wear a towel, but that's it).
EDIT2: Unfortunately, it seems the "Hoax" episode actually is the actual DP147. Not only did the October Calendar confirm it, they even gave the date that it was expected to air, as evidenced by this conversation:
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/User_talk:Kenji-girl#DP147_.21.21.21