User blog comment:Pof203/This has been bugging me for sometime/@comment-50.162.209.191-20150407014905/@comment-209.53.180.16-20150408024736

To be fair, the original anime in Japanese actually made its own ending, as the original manga series was still ongoing. The Plants hadn't even been introduced when the anime had to finish, so the English dub had nothing to do with that. The anime adaption of the manga reduced a lot of backstory for many of the manga characters and took out some of the more controversial side stories (like Horohoro and Apollo). Instead, the anime had a lot of filler to get to the Patch Village and introduced anime only characters, like the Lily Five.

Not that the English dub is a straight-up translation of the Japanese anime. There was censorship and some parts were cut.