From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 106 - Bonds of fate!  The day far for Uranus   
      
   This is one of my favorite episodes of the season.  It's a really   
   important episode not only in filling in the backstory of Haruka and   
   Michiru, but also fleshing out their characters.  This shows us more   
   about why they behave the way they do, and why they seem unwilling to   
   work with the rest of the senshi.  They don't really know about the   
   Classic and R struggles, so what they see in the sailor senshi is sort   
   of half-hearted warriors that don't understand the mission U&N have   
   been given.   
      
   Unfortunately, the dub ran into a heap of trouble here.  I'm almost   
   certain that whoever made the decision to make Amara and Michelle   
   cousins did not know about this episode.  But once they reached here   
   they were presented with basically an intractable problem -- how do   
   you write dialogue for this episode that suggests Amara and Michelle   
   are related?  Whoever did the scriptwriting for this one made a   
   valiant effort, and I'm not sure I could have done much better given   
   the circumstance, but this is the kind of thing that happens when you   
   have localizers that aren't looking at the product as a whole when   
   they make their decisions.   
      
   Usually VKLL's subs are pretty good but there were a few mistakes in   
   this episode; I don't know if Pioneer did any better.  First, when Ami   
   is "reassuring" Usagi the subs had her saying that she'll do fine as   
   long as she can pass some exams -- what she actually said was "You'll   
   be fine, because there are high schools where anybody can pass the   
   exams" (this is true; there are technical schools and the like where   
   the exams are so easy and the pass level so low that even the worst   
   students can get in).   
      
   Second, the subs have Haruka saying that she just cared about running,   
   until she met Michiru.  What she actually says is "If I just hadn't   
   met Michiru..." which I think has a different implication.  Finally,   
   the expression "shuudan wo erabanai" literally means "I don't choose   
   the methods," which is how the subs render it.  But the more idiomatic   
   meaning of the phrase is "I'll do anything (in pursuit of some goal)",   
   with a decidedly negative implication.   
      
   -Chris   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)