Thread: What did you think of the group dynamics of the DP trio?

Its funny because when Barry was traveling with the DP trio for those few episodes, the group instantly got better.

Too bad Barry couldn't always stick around. :/

Barry livened up the entire group. Even Dawn had good interactions with Barry in the few times they interacted.

Going back to a trio for DP, without characters that play off each other (like the BW trio), was a bad idea.

If they had to keep Brock, then DP should have been Ash/Dawn/Brock/Barry. That would have been much better.

Originally Posted by martianmister

His interaction with Hikari is nothing more than few scenes, and I don't remember any interaction between Takeshi and him.

Dawn grabbed his Poketch watch, she fell on his ass in the Iron Island episodes, and in general they're both hyperactive people.

Barry should have also been Dawn's childhood friend instead of Kenny.

It was good it not like BW's which made me angry. Ash and Dawn felt really close and Dawn actually served a purpose in the core battling episodes. There was no arguing but it's better then the faux deepness of Cilan vs Iris. If the had a better threat in the filler episodes to make up for the lack of tension in the group It would have been perfect as it could be.

The Ash and Dawn friendship was fine, even if it really was just a slightly altered version of the Ash and May friendship with high fives thrown in. But two people alone do not make a group.

The DP trio ended almost a year and a half ago now and it feels like aside from comparison threads like this one it's all but forgotten. If the show ever ends someday, I don't see the DP trio being brought up as much as all the others.

Oddly enough, even though I sat down and watched all 191 episodes of DP, some multiple times even, I don't really have any nostalgia for the DP trio AT ALL. :/

While I did like some things Dawn herself did, the whole trio itself is like a massive blur to me now.

There really was very little memorable about it.

I think the group worked for what it was supposed to do: provide an ease to the tention provided by pretty much everything else within the show. Yes, they got along all fine all the time and there could have been more interactions between Hikari and Takeshi but overall it served it's purpose. With all the things we got in DP (Shinji, Hunter J, depression arcs,), I think that the group dynamic worked well enough.

That said, during the contest episodes, I think that a better group dynamic could have helped since Hikari's rivals were a bit pathetic. On the other hand, I wouldn't have liked anything to distract from Candy Musashi and better rivals would have been a better pay off.