Magmortar123
Get those Devil Horns up
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I think it's just because they didn't know who to replace him with *shrugs*
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You have to admit, over the last two gens it was strange just to see the female character change but then Brock stay.
I think if they had changed the male companion every arc too, it would have been more refreshing.
I definitly think he should have left by the end of Johto. Even though he didn't do much in Johto, it was still a bit nostalgic for him to return and have the original trio back after Orange Island. But He didn't need to be in AG on.
My theory is that the writers were just too scared to replace him with anyone until recently. His return in Johto was supposedly motivated by Tracey being unpopular and people missing Brock, and I think it just took them a long time to get over the hesitation to try it again.
I think Brock's removal in at the end of DP is to signify the change that we are getting with BW, these are new games that focus on a far away region where none of the old Pokemon can be found. Its nothing personal with Brock, they just wanted to have the feeling that everything was new and different
Its a sad thing seeing so many older characters replaced without closures ending up neglected and some could ask himself how many more will end up like this?
Oh well.
Brock got closure. He became a doctor and will use his nursing/healing/breeding skills there. His brother now runs the Pewter Gym.
The only thing he never got was a girl, but I guess that's part of the running gag.
I don't think it was the best closure, because his dream to become the best Pokemon Breeder, and now he's just studying to be a doctor? Although the two are linked, after 13 years traveling with Ash and his dream it was weird him just changing it quickly - even though he had had that dream since episode 5.
Anyway, back on topic. He was probably kept, because, like others said no-one was really there to take his role, and he was probably liked at the time. Now in BW they found Dento who had that relationship with food so they chose him.
Anyway, just because he was shown to help out sick pokemon doesn't necessarily foreshadow his new dream.
I actually think it was an OK way to send him off now, although I will surely miss him and I hoped he'd stick around.
As much as fans of a character want them to stick around forever, it's rarely what's best for the show and the character itself.
Why did the writers bring Brock back to DP? To close his storyline for good as they did with Misty at the end of the original series.
Apart from DP189, I don't remember this.Brock more and more questionning his place in the latter half of DP = FORESHADOWING.
But not foreshadowing for Brock actually wanting to change his dream. It was rather spontaneous on the moment and an easy way to write him off.That is exactly what foreshadowing is.
The worst thing is, watching both 'departures', they were pretty idendical. I think the writers could have done a bit more with the last one consdiering it was played out quite like the first time he left.
But not foreshadowing for Brock actually wanting to change hsi dream. It was rather spontaneous on the moment and an easy way to write him off.
foreshadowing, the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot.
Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/213447/foreshadowing