Do you REALLY not get what Kai was? Or how it was edited from Z? It's a re-edit of Z that both speeds up the animation, in addition to cutting most of the filler out to make it faster-paced. Take it from me, I re-edited Dragon Box footage to episode 99's dub (I plan to do more once I have a better setup to my computers) & what I had to do for that was, baseline, set all of the clips from the corresponding Z episode to at least 10% faster than it was originally paced for Z. And, by the way, they didn't say say was physically incapable per se, just that they felt that, with the scripts that were coming in, that she wouldn't be able to keep up. Given how much the animation was most likely sped up, this makes sense for their evaluation.TheGreatness25 wrote:I really don't know if I buy that. She was able to keep up with "Frieza" the first time around -- albeit it wasn't a tremendous performance, but she was physically able to keep up with the dialog (whatever that means). I think it's just a nice way of saying that they thought her performance was bad, although it doesn't end up sounding much nicer because now instead of stating their opinion (that she was bad), they're making it look like she's physically incapable of doing something. I know that Linda Young's style was more slow and Kai was dubbed in a way where it sounds like they're rushing through all of their lines (my one complaint about the Kai dub), but they were able to have Young do Freeza the first time around and it's not like any extra dialog was added to Kai, so... I basically don't know why they sound like they sped through their lines, thus losing a lot of emotion. If I give the original Z dub more credit than the Kai dub, it's that at least in Z there was time to really marinate in the emotion of the lines, while in Kai, it's just like, "WhoaThat'sAPowerfulForceMyGoodnessNoWayHowCanThisBe?!"Nightmare Wheel wrote: She was physically incapable of keeping up with Freeza's dialogue when they recorded for Kai. I doubt they wanted to take that chance of having that happen again.
However, I still stick by the opinion that the only people who could possibly still prefer her to Chris Ayres are people affected by nostalgia because I've never felt she fit the role, so if they finally felt the need to replace her with a more appropriate VA, then no skin off my bones.
You also mention that you feel the dub was faster. Dude, the SHOW is faster than Z on the whole. With the amount of filler cut out & the sped-up portions, I'm not surprised in the least by Chris Ayres replacing Linda Young for that reason alone. Actually watch a comparison between a scene from Kai & Z, like maybe Goku powering up to SS3. It's a full minute faster than Z in Kai because of how much it was most likely sped up.