It's cool that May and Dawn both went back to the older regions. Dawn'll tear up the Contests in Hoenn because watching a Contest in Hoenn is painful now after the Super Contests in Sinnoh. And I know that it's because the animators figured out how to do it after all these years, but after seeing how awesome Dawn's battle with Zoey was in the Grande Festival...it's just hard to watch May's old Contests in Hoenn now.

And I guess it had to happen, but I always will consider Brock to be the Pewter City Gym Leader. And what's with the sudden onslaught of Legendaries, huh?

Brock's younger brother, Forrest

It was a good special. I liked the Brock one better, I just liked it better. The one thing they special could have used is appearances by some of the D/P rivals. Maybe not Paul as without Ash around it would just be weird. But everyone else especially Barry would be great to see again.

Finally got the chance to watch the subs. Loved these two specials. It's refreshing to see Dawn and Brock without Ash. The only bad part is Dawn looks Ariados up on the Pokedex. Yes this is usually for the viewer, but having Dawn of all people do it is dumb at this point in time. Even though I'm glad he's gone, Brock's episode was a nice goodbye. I miss Dawn even more now.

Also, to clarify earlier posts, Forrest has been the acting Gym Leader since Johto ended, but the PIA never received notification and they assumed that Brock was still the Gym Leader. Even though he has been the acting Gym Leader for a while, Forrest only just became the official Gym Leader in this episode.

I remember Dawn looking up Metagross at least three times in DP

So it's not suprising