eledoremassis02 wrote:TheBlackPaladin wrote:Gonstead wrote:I wonder if Sonny Strait could do a decent Schemmel Goku impression.
This video, 4:18.
3:18 sounds a lot like him (unintentionally). Now I am beginning to wonder why they all sound alike
Oh, and if they could imitate who they repleaced to begin with now (like Schemmel's Kalamis and Sabata Drummond. That would be interesting
That's technically what they were hired to do, at least initially. They gradually went their own way with the characters, but with the exception of Krillin--who, according to an interview with Sonny Strait, dub director Barry Watson intentionally wanted a different sound for--the actors hired by FUNimation for "Season 3" were hired to try and sound as similar to the Ocean cast as possible.
I was 12 when "Season 3" first aired on Cartoon Network, and I could certainly tell that the voices changed, so I think they should have just let the actors go their own way to begin with. I think easiest of the new cast members to adjust to was Stephanie Nadolny, in that she sounded the most like her Ocean counterpart, Saffron Henderson. And I still think that, while the
voices in and of themselves are noticeably different, Schemmel's delivery for the first batch of episodes that he voiced Goku in was very much like Kelamis's portrayal of Goku. Same thing with Sabat's Vegeta--totally different voice, but very similar to Drummond's delivery, at first. It's hard for me to describe their deliveries in writing, it'd be much easier for me to just act it out......but when I watched the first batch of "Season 3" episodes, it just struck me that the words they chose to emphasize, their cadence, how the pitch of their voices went up or down on certain words.......it was very similar to their Ocean counterparts. Not similar enough to fool me into believing that the Ocean actors were still voicing their characters, but similar enough that I could tell who they were
trying to imitate.
