Kakarot88 wrote:Read through the "We Are Goku Panel" that Derek Padula transcribed. Schemmel's individual panel was not transcribed nor recorded because he asked us not to do so. Kyle Hebert also discussed it at his other sessions. I did not record any session so you can choose not to believe me but search for Schemmel talking about Kai or outtakes in the new season and he talks about it in in the We Are Goku panel or East Meets West I don't have what they said memorized but it has been memorialized at least. It's in one of the two if my words aren't good enough for you lol. At his individual panels he talked about how he thought all the voice acting and script was superior but thought the music didn't fit in a lot of places and asked what we thought.
Music can make or break a film. It sets the mood. Kai's music makes it fall flat because the symphony canned stuff used for every moment that can be pigeon holed as scary or intense etc leads to a respective quality that never conveyed excitement the first time around. Goku going SS3 in the Funi dub is loved by many fans beyond it being what they heard first time because shen it comes down to it the scrne is just screaming. The scream is whatever, but it's the music with it that brings it all together and makes it loved.
Kai is decent at times but it could have been great.
I'll take a symphony, canned or not, over the droning obnoxious and unmemorable synth music we got. It didn't fit the show in the least. I'm not sure what you mean when you say "the moment is pigeon holed as scary or intense leads to a respective quality that never conveyed excitement the first time around." SS3 is a cool transformation. I'm glad people liked the music but the music isn't what put eyeballs to the television. It was already a huge moment for the series everywhere else even when the original music was kept. People would've remembered it regardless of the music and at least it conveyed the proper tone. Are you saying the Z dub was great because of the music, regardless of everything else?
I don't get it and will never get why some seem to place more emphasis on the music than dialog, performances and characterization. "The dialog, whatever, what about the music!? Who cares if the actors sound like crap and the dialog is embarassing, I'm here for the music!" Even if I accepted the idea that the Faulconer score was excellent, Z's dub would still be garbage due to many of the casting choices, terrible scripts, and bad acting. Good music can only do so much if those things and the story aren't connecting with people. What about the action? You know, the thing that kids really cared about. "Who cares about the fighting and smashing, what about the music?!"
I found nothing in the We Are Goku panel about Sean not liking the music. I've seen and read interviews where he said he enjoys the original, not that it really matters what the voice actors think of the music.
I and so many others have said it before, Kai was popular when it aired, but was never going to equal the numbers DBZ got because it's the show's first airing in the US and it was on a more popular channel at a time when there were a lot less options and it was aired at an optimal time. THere's no doubt in my mind that the show would've been just as popular in US had it been dubbed like Kai or Z movies 1-3.
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