Um, yay, but I brought up Lapras because Ash and co. knew that Lapras was looking for its pod and so Ash decided to catch it until they can find its pod and release it. Ash never attended to release Charizard, Primeape, Butterfree, Squirtle, Pidgeot, Bulbasaur, and etc. until an event occured and him or that Pokemon made the decision to be released. However, Ash knew from the start that he was going to release Lapras before he caught it.