XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, alt.startrek   
   XPost: rec.arts.animation   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 10/26/2018 5:36 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:38:55 -0700 Mike Van Pelt  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article, Adam H. Kerman   
   >> wrote:   
   >>>> Here's a no-brainer, which I am not sure why it has not already happened:   
   >>>   
   >>>> You have the animated series with the TOS original cast voices, some   
   decent   
   >>>> scripts, and absolutely *awful* Filmation animation. Now is the time to   
   >>>> redo the series in CGI, keeping the original voice tracks and scripts.   
   >>>   
   >>> I re-watched the series recently. The scripts were largely terrible. And   
   >>> the voice tracks? Toss 'em. None of the actors recorded together and   
   >>> there is no illusion that characters in the same scene were speaking to   
   >>> each other.   
   >>   
   >> I just noticed they were on NetFlix the other day, and   
   >> re-watched one I had fond memories of from back when it was   
   >> originally on TV, "The Jihad".   
   >>   
   >> Some decent ideas and worldbuilding. I was particularly   
   >> intrigued by the Vedala "the oldest known species in the   
   >> galaxy", I think they said. My vague recollection from   
   >> 1970mumble was that they'd said the Vedala were the founders   
   >> of the Federation, but that wasn't stated.   
   >>   
   >> One thing I liked about the animated series was that freed from   
   >> the practical constraints of the aliens having to be humans in   
   >> rubber suits, the aliens weren't all humans in rubber suits.   
   >> Or with this week's fashion in forehead bumps.   
   >>   
   >> Alas... Yeah. Wretched animation, really cut-rate.   
   >>   
   >> The voice acting, they kind of seemed to be phoning it in.   
   >   
   > That's an unavoidable side effect of recording each actor individually.   
   > Without the other readings to react to, they go monotone. The Shat recorded   
   > one of his eps in a toilet stall on location. They apparently sent out tape   
   > recorders with the scripts; "here, read this into this and send it all back"   
   >   
   Hee.  There was an episode of (I think) 'Dirty Jobs' where they showed   
   Mike Rowe (who does a lot of voice-over narration) sitting in the   
   bathtub of the hotel room under a blanket recording some voice-over stuff.   
      
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