Marowak's death scene

[Rentorar]

Now when I heard that Pokemon The Origin was coming to Blu-ray (In Japanese only) I decided to go ahead and buy it because I could watch it on my PS3 without the burden of region blocking. I love how Japan and America have the same Blu-ray coding. Anyway on to the point of this topic. When I saw the scene where Marowak was killed...I was stunned. The death scream was creepy yet sad. It fit the scene well. Then when Cubone meets up with his mother's ghost the reunion was a tear jerker. I had a friend who had managed to make out what Marowak said to her baby when he came running to her. First off I think she said something along the lines of "My Son!" or "My Baby!" Then when she was hugging him she said something along the lines of "Thank goodness" before she passed on. Now..here comes the frustrating part. The dub..and I know people sometimes get tired of hearing people complain, however there is really a good reason to be a bit miffed about these edits. First off they changed Marowak's voice in the death scene. She never talked at that point so why did they feel that they had to waste their time recording a new voice for her? (I'm not sure but I think they changed Cubone's voice as well. I need clarification on that.) The death scream was removed and replaced with some very poorly performed grunts which killed the mood of the scene. Did they really deem the original scream to be too scary for the poor little kiddies? *sarcasm* Someone told me that it would have been one thing if it was airing on TV but the fact that it was on the American Pokemon site should mean it would be okay. If that was the logic and they felt that it was too "violent" to be on TV..then why would they allow the scene in the Zoroark movie, where Kodai was electrocuting Zoroark and she was letting out a very gory scream be uncensored? I still get goosebumps when I see her struggling like that...I don't get TPCi's logic on these stupid edits.

In the dub where Marowak and Cubone meet up again..she says nothing at all like she was supposed to. TPCi just had her growl and grunt in a garbled fashion like some freaking Muppet. It was frustrating to watch.

 

[Hidden Mew]

I think that this would be more fitting as a blog entry rather than its own individual thread.