>>14158709Because some of us feel that it's a touch antithetical to the entire premise of the series to show something like this and shrug it off as "oop, a Pokemon center will heal it" in a battle that's with some bratty kid and not a ruthless crime syndicate?
I mean, if a 10-year old had his pet mangled as badly as the scene implies, I'd expect for both sides to be fairly startled over everything. If a kid can't keep his mon from causing some other kid's mon from bleeding out over a battle for lunch money, there's probably some serious evaluation as to whether or not the little incompetent should even trusted with the privilege of training a mon.
If you're going to show a scene with that kind of gravity, deal with the aftereffects in a way that isn't completely trite.
Most animals are sane enough to try and stay away from things that they knew tried to kill them once, how is that little newt going to be coaxed into thinking that it can even the odds next time and not get another chunk taken out of its neck? Isn't it remotely intimidated of the thing that dug into it like that in future encounters? Is it a vengeful SOB that wants to settle the score? Why isn't Red bitching loud and hard at Oak for what happened? How is Blue reacting to this? I mean, someone with little to no experience caring for a superpowered animal seeing what's supposed to be your best buddy do something like that when you're not even in middle school would presumably provoke SOME sort of reaction.
It wasn't an inherently bad scene, but the way it was handled left a really bad taste in my mouth and felt like it ran completely counter to everything that we've been told about this franchise since Red and Blue. That said, at least it wasn't as retarded as killing off a Ground-type with a electroshock prod.
