I despise May.
She was rude and unpleasant, but was never called out on it. She rarely ever lost a contest. Her flaws were never played up, and she was often treated as infallible except for that one time her asshole-ish-ness caused Max to run away. She got everything because she was an 8 year old in the body of a 14 year old girl.
I did not like May. I still don't like May. Her design is nothing special, her attitude makes me wonder why people find her charming, and she won contests using tactics that caused Dawn to lose in DP.
It's fine if you love AG, May, and Gen 3. I can't stop you, and I won't try to stop you.
But it won't stop me from loathing the character completely.

Best Wishes is regarded as better than previous Pokemon series. Why'd you stop?
I'd take Iris and what's his name over Bianca and Cheren any day of the week :lol

Sinnoh is probably my favorite section of the Pokemon anime, mostly due to Paul. I view him as the perfect rival; Ash's opposite in every way and a ruthless trainer. Plus the fact that Ash had assembled a REALLY impressive Pokemon team by the League makes Sinnoh worth it to me.

I utterly HATED "Best Wishes." I felt Ash took a massive step backwards in terms of character and intelligence, and the Unova League displays this more than anything else when Ash's main rival this time turned out to be a complete and utter moron who didn't even know the number necessary for a full Pokemon battle!

I liked Paul too. He was fun.

That's fair enough.

I thought May was ten.

Except he was not Ash's main rival during BW. He was the person Ash makes friends before the league and then loses to. It has happened in every series except D/P.

"Main" or otherwise, that doesn't diminish the fact that Cameron was an absolute idiot and probably should have been kicked out of the tournament for not following the rules for Full Battles. It only serves to highlight how stupid BW made Ash when he had to lose the league to someone even stupider.

She was. That was the point. She acted nowhere near that age in a body that was far too developed to be at that age.

I agree with the Paul thing, as boring as Sinnoh was he was a complete badass.

Ash's main rival in BW was the guy who took photos everywhere but for the life of me i can't remember hi's name.

I do agree with you he was an idiot and was highly annoying.

I sometimes question if the character designers even know what 10 year olds look like.

So I'm watching the opening episode of XY now.

Hell yeah Mega Blaziken in the opening few minutes!

Maybe it's just because I grew up with it, but as far as quality goes this dub ain't half bad. That still didn't stop Ash from being insanely fucking annoying. As such, I was pretty much ready to turn this off, but the second half of the episode was pure action and genuinely really good action so I actually had quite a lot of fun.