The only time red and blue(the rival) had their correct starters was pokemon evolutions where red has Charizard and blue has Venusaur(they traded, also i personally like origins and what the anime did more then the manga)
Man I still remember the struggle of finding the spots to trigger the XTranreceiver calls with Yancy when I was kid. It was worth the long hours searching as a kid though.
Some of these plots twists would hit ever harder if we had voice acting for the cut scenes instead of reading the dialogue. Imagine that Volo line booming through the speaker, "Giratina, strike him down!"
18:18 that is simply not true. This professo'rs timeline don't match ours if we were to follow the A0 journals. And us giving away the book that has been givien to us because Arven had also would't make sense. If they wanted a paradox they failed badly because it just fails in too much points.