You're from Australia too?

Anyway, I see what you mean....there's plenty of things they can do to make the cartoon more interesting. They introduced many characters in the games so why not the show??? I always thought Johto would be about Hiro and Kamon, and then I thought Advanced Generation would be about Brendan and May, but still Ash...those must only be Game characters.

And why isn't Ash catching anything when he gets the chance? Not only that, he's also giving away his Pokemon! Look at Primeape for example! Wouldn't he rather decline and leave 'em with Oak? THe probelm is he gets too involved in situations, which forces him to give them away...like the Butterfree mating and the Charicific Valley...