Umino wrote:Cloverways hands down.
Cloverway was 1000 times better. Having the original music is a huge plus.
I agree retaining the original BGM was a huge plus. For that reason I would rather watch a crappy Cloverway episode then a mediocre Dic episode.
Umino wrote:Not only that, but they dubbed most of the insert songs too. With the exception of Ainosenshi, the songs came out great.
Even Tear Our Hearts in Two (Dub Ai No Senshi) was better than most of the DiC songs. And Cloverway's other two songs You'll be in my heart and Let's Fight I actually kinda like better than their Japanese counterpart. (Though I get a kick out of Sailor Senshi No Theme going MAKE-UP!)
Umino wrote:Of course Cloverway does have it's flaws. The Sailor Moon S dub was one big flaw. It had potential, and some of the episodes came out great. But overall, it was bad.
I wouldn't say bad just all over the place. Sailor Moon S had a number of problems that caused it to have low quality 1.Lisa Lumby Richards 2.Cartoon Network pressuring Cloverway and Optimum to get the season dubbed fast as possible so that they could air a new episode every day 3.Optimum having the voice director be someone who couldn't speak English. Had they just dropped Lisa Lumby and stuck to their good writer (Nathalie Gregoire I think her name was) and Cartoon Network give them time to dub the season and Optimum hired a voice director who spoke English I think the S dub would have turned out fairly good.
Umino wrote:Making Uranus and Neptune cousins is excusable. Why they couldn't have just tone down their romance to "friendship" is beyond me.
Why the fact that it was very obvious they were in love and by calling them cousins only made it incest making it worse is beyond me. Haruka and Michiru's relationship wasn't that explicit in the original Sailor Moon S you just kinda knew they were lovers. Optimum/Cloverway should have left the relationship as it was from what I heard their is no rule against Gay relationships on television most shows just stray away from it in fear of religious groups
Umino wrote:Zirconia's sex change was stupid, and I think was only done so they could justify giving her a Yoda voice.
It was really stupid to gave Zirconia a sex change for two reasons 1.It ruined the whole Zirconia is an older reflection of Nehelania and 2. Close up shots you could see Zirconia had lipstick on
Umino wrote: Fisheye's sexchange was also stupid, atleast in regards to the uncut dub. Fisheye being a girl in the edited version is fine. The uncut version is a different story. It's dumb seeing a shirtless, masculine Fisheye being referred to as a "she", or "psycho woman". Optimum should've had a few lines redubbed to fix this.
It's actually quite funny watching the uncut dub and see Fisheye take his shirt off to reveal a male chest and still be referred to as female.
Umino wrote: On a side note, I'm sick of people claiming that DIC wasn't inconsistant. While not as bad as CWI, they were pretty inconsistant with attacks. Remeber how "Supreme Thunder" literally changed every episode? Or how "Moon Crystal Power" became "Moon Star Power" during the Blackmoon arc? Or how about "Moon Scepter Elimination" becoming "Moon Scepter Activation", and then "Moon Princess Elminiation"?
Well Moon Princess Elimination is from the Sailor Moon R movie dub which Dic had nothing to do with but I do agree with you.
Umino wrote:And finally, Terri Hawkes sucks. I don't understand how anyone could stand her. Her voice is too valleygirl, and she has a bad habit of changing the volume of her voice for no reason. Linda Ballentyne had a rough start, but was pretty decent in SuperS. She actually played Serena as a funny, cute character. Plus she was really good at serious scenes. Terri on the other hand, wasn't. She ruined every scene with Princess Serenity with her fake British "princess" accent. Of course, Tracey Moore will always be the best "Serena".
I agree with you here too. Tracey Moore was the best Serena by far. Too bad Optimum decided to replace her with Terri Hawkes (One of many retarded mistakes Optimum made) Linda was by no means great but she was a hell of a lot better than Terri. Linda was able to get both the goofy side and serious emotional side of Usagi. Terri Hawkes Serena could only do valley girl and a valley girl trying to sound serious. It confounds me when people complain about Linda's voice and act like Terri's Serena was the definitive Serena voice.