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jingleheimerschitt t1_ja7tuax wrote

Reply to “ Prime Video's The Consultant Is a Little Weird, a Little Unsettling, and Mostly Mediocre.” by Hidethegoodbiscuits

I absolutely loved it. It’s not so much a mystery as it is a story about a mysterious person, and the loose threads/remaining questions are supposed to be for you to answer for yourself, as with any good piece of literature. I can’t stop thinking about the big reveal and I’m planning to rewatch it soon so I can see how that reveal was hinted and teased earlier.

If you want to see what he’s made of…

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jubbergun t1_ja7suu0 wrote

Reply to comment by Hidethegoodbiscuits in “ Prime Video's The Consultant Is a Little Weird, a Little Unsettling, and Mostly Mediocre.” by Hidethegoodbiscuits

I don't know about that. I haven't finished watching it yet but I've liked Brittany O'Grady's acting so far. Maybe not on par with Waltz, but that's not a fair comparison if you think about it. These are younger actors at the beginning of their careers being compared to a popular Academy Award winner.

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Away_Ad8907 t1_ja7q8xn wrote

Reply to What flawed show you just can't leave because it's really that good in certain parts despite its wrongs? by eidbio

The Handmaid's Tale. It's indulgent, more and more often shallow and dull, and spins its wheels ad infinitum. It has a tenuous handle on its own inconsistent worldbuilding. It undermines key thematic underpinnings of the text with oversimplification, contrived shuffling of plot-armoured characters across the chess board and undercooked efforts to appear intersectional or relevant. Arcs and plots have remained static and stale for some time now.

But it still delivers a few truly excellent scenes a season, the best of those being the ones that contain a compelling or cathartic character beat expertly performed by its talented ensemble, opposed to the jaw-dropping traumas it's known for. And for as much of a traumatic slog as it can be, it mines a surprising amount of comedy out of June and Serena's completely fucked up dynamic, and I'm essentially only still watching to see those two characters interact. Strahovski and Moss pull the best performances out of each other, too.

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res30stupid t1_ja7q5cl wrote

Reply to Has any other TV show dipped in quality and fandom as much as New York Undercover? by stevenw84

Exclusive for a dub of a show, but the original DiC production of Sailor Moon ended up suffering a loss of quality rather rapidly with even the original English dub's voice actors outright stating that they agreed with fans that the dub was completely rubbish. In fact, the show's second voice actress for Setsuna/Trisha/Sailor Pluto, Susan Aceron, even said that it was a mistake that she was cast to be in that series at all.

There's actually a known and stated reason for this, however, as given by Roland Parliament who was the voice of Umino/Melvin and the show's second ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) director in his autobiography Sailor Moon Reflections.

In short, the first voice of Sailor Moon, Tracey Moore, was also the show's first ADR director but was so heavily overworked that she suffered from burnout and quit thirteen episodes into the show's production (episodes 1-11, 15 and 21), so when she quit she was replaced with Roland.

They tried to keep her in the role by replacing her as ADR director with castmates who had smaller roles in the show. But because of clashes with a producer at Optimum Productions, Nicole Thuault who also heavily clashed with Moore while she was the ADR director, Parliament was fired from the role as ADR director as well as his replacement John Stocker, who played Rei's grandfather in the dub.

When Optimum completed their original recording sessions for the show, DiC decided to stop licensing the show and left them stranded. But Cartoon Network and YTV wanted more episodes dubbed so they paid for it themselves and ordered the adaptations directly. All 77 remaining episodes... in four months. Optimum couldn't get most of the original cast for a number of reasons - some of the voice actors hated the conditions and refused to come back while at least one of them outright couldn't due to being on maternity leave.

After this, Thuault decided that she might as well take on the role as the show's ADR director instead. This was despite the fact that despite being a producer on the show's English dub, she didn't fucking speak English and in fact needed a translator on-site to help her communicate with the cast and crew. By the way, did I mention that Optimum was based out of Ontario?

So, the ADR director wasn't able to properly quality control the recording, they had to adapt 77 episodes of the show in four months and most of the original cast was gone. They only had four hours to record each episode and took were only allowed to do two takes for each scene/episode and decided to use the one that wasn't shit. Quality dropped immensely, the seasons adapted were widely hated until the entire series was re-dubbed by Viz and it proved to be such an old shame that the DiC dub will never be rereleased again.

And for added hilarity, when they were doing the translation of the scripts into English, because of a stupid term of the contract that they were using, they weren't adapting the original Japanese scripts of the show but the earlier French dub produced in Paris.

Oh, and here's something funny I wanted to bring up as well. They had to make some changes to the show to appease US censors, mainly because the show could actually get somewhat violent for US audiences. One pair of junior high school students were expressly a pair of lesbians in the original Japanese version which was turned into them being cousins in the English dub... but they didn't fully remove all of the pretext, so it made them look like teenage incestuous lesbians instead.

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