Filler Saga in Unova?

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    As I am sure many of you have noticed Best Wishes/Black & White have been going by pretty fast, even those who watch Dubs only could tell the it is going by at a fast pace.

    So will they have a filler saga like Battle Frontier? Or will they start adding fillers here and there to slow down the story.

    And before you ask what I constitute as filler I would say.

    Pokemon Capture
    Gym Battle
    Rival Battle
    Pokemon Learns a new move
    New Pokemon Added to the Group
    Or a new reoccurring Character is introduced

    These are the episodes thus far that seem to be filler to me. Which is not much.
    BW08
    BW12 (only thing that would make it non filler is he received the egg)
    BW21
    BW28
    BW29

    Seems like the story has slowed down a bit after the battle with Burgh. I got a feeling they will wonder around the Desert a bit before they actually get to Nimbasa City, maybe visit the construction areas, the beach in the south eastern part(that could have been the fishing competition), and at some point maybe not now visit Desert Resort. I don't know how much of a Frontier saga we would have since all Unova has is battle Subway. Maybe they will focus on Cilan Connoisseur activities and Iris ambition to be a Dragon master to slow down the story, thus far it has been far Ash centric and progression driven.
     
    I think their "Battle Frontier" type saga will be the East part of Unova, where'll wonder around, rack up a bunch of filler's, maybe meet Cynthia again, and an Elite 4 member perhaps (Caitlin visit's the house Cynthia goes to) The battle subway will have it's own episode during the Nimbasa episodes.
     
    Didn't Johto have a lot of filler episodes? Either then that so far the filler episodes in BW have been actually pretty good and entertaining to watch. I think there was only a few filler episodes in BW that I didn't like but Ash meeting up with Cynthia in one of the filler episodes would be interesting to see. I hope we get more filler episodes on Cilan. Most of them are starting to focus on Cilan or Iris now which is pretty good.
     
    I think now that the trio is getting into the parts of Unova that are bigger, there will be more time taken to explore the region. I don't see it being ridiculously stretched out like Johto was, but maybe a fair amount of fillers. I don't have much of a problem with that though because the fillers have been rather good so far.

    I don't see there being a time where the anime is almost purely filler.
     
    I think they'll put in filler episodes between gym battles here and there, considering that some people complained about the B/W games' shortness. If Gen VI isn't out yet, they'll probably do the Battle Frontier in Unova's eastern half, with the Pt/HG/SS Frontier Brains.
     
    I wouldn't mind a filler saga at to be honest, it really shows the writers and producers creativity and gives you something you won't see coming as they aren't in the games. (Although the BF was in Emerald, the anime set it in kanto) I think the whirl cup could be a perfect example of this also...

    But yeah, if they were to do one then it would have to be between routes 11 - 15 (which would promote white forest/black city also...
     
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    How about something with N and Team Plasma. About 10 -20 episodes. But yeah, a Battle Frontier type thing will be good too. Don't know how they'll do it since it ought to be in conjunction with the Battle Subway which is based in Nimbasa. I guess the other facilities will be scattered around Unova.
     
    I was thinking they'd do some thing after the series ends and allow Ash/Dento/Iris travel around a bit more together.
     
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