I've started the BW chapter, and one thing I really like is how it really dives into what Team Plasma is proposing about people's relationships with Pokemon (Tula being a dangerous feral Pokemon someone released etc). Just with the games alone, Team Plasma was very much addressing the whole fact you are surface level having animals fight eachother. But Ghetis' speech in pokespe has him actually say "you think Pokemon and humans have a symbiotic relationship but you're wrong". Because this stuff has already been addressed in the manga. Lt. Surge vs the Pokemon Fan Club. Heck, the Yellow arc was basically proto Team Plasma. And unlike in the games, we do actually just see people living regular civilian lives with the one partner Pokemon that helps them or is basically the family pet. N is called cruel for not putting his Pokemon in Pokeballs after Black knocks them out.
So far, I see the BW arc as exploring different way of seeing the relationship between people and Pokemon. N's separatism vs the world's mutualism. Black as a sports coach and his Pokemon as his players. White as a manager as her Pokemon as her employees/"human" capital. So it is way more interesting to have N ask Gigi if she's tired of being nice and wants to go apeshit as opposed to him demonstrating that one of Black's Pokemon doesn't want to be a fighter.
