From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 150 - Amazones! The nightmare that came from behind the mirror   
   >   
   >Up to now, the episodes have all had a pre-episode preview, but   
   >starting with this episode (until next season), the show for some   
   >reason decided to start putting actual content before the theme song.   
   >This is very unusual for anime, which tends not to have pre-opening   
   >sequence teasers like American shows do.   
      
   And this one was critical to understanding why the Quartet changed the   
   search method. BTW, the Pioneer/Geneon DVD release dropped the   
   epilogue for every episode, keeping only the prologue. This meant that   
   we lost some funny bits like the time that Usagi almost traded Mamoru   
   to Fisheye for a cake. I guess we're lucky here that they didn't drop   
   both.   
      
   In this episode, the dub changed the prologue so much that it was not   
   clear that new information had been provided. It almost sounded like   
   the AQ were given an entirely new mission, to look for a golden   
   mirror, rather then specifically a different way to look for the   
   bearer of Pegasus. The dub overall for this episode was simply   
   horrible. Not only were incidental (and even critical) conversations   
   completely changed, but additional dialog was crammed into every   
   single moment of silence. Really, the dub conversations going on   
   rarely bore any semblance at all to the subtitles being displayed.   
      
   >I don't like the Amazones Quartet as much as the Amazon Trio; they   
   >just don't seem as interesting. The only voice actor I recognize is   
   >JunJun's (Watanabe Kumiko, who plays Katejina in Victory Gundam)   
      
   It does seem like the characters for the AQ are more shallow then the   
   AT, but still, you have got to admire the insanity that is Palla-Palla   
   )   
      
   >I already said this last time, but Nehelenia's voice is just great.   
      
   It's too early yet for me to weight in on the dub version of   
   Nehelenia's voice, but I'm not sure that I like it. The voices for the   
   AQ were OK and seemed to fit their characters.   
      
   >This is the 75% point of the 200 days.   
      
   Yay!!   
      
   I'm not sure yet if there is a theme like I saw in the AT arc. There   
   seems to be an overall message that children should enjoy their youth   
   and not be in too much of a hurry to grow up, but I don't know if   
   there will be a distinct individual message for each episode like   
   there was about love in the last arc.   
      
   --   
   Phoenix   
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