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spiderbraids1x13: A Great Secret Revealed / Meant to Be
Unedited: We open in Gardenia. Vanessa has to help her cut carrots because home ec isn't exactly Bloom's best subject. As Vanessa is talking to her about how much she's grown, there's an oven fire. Bloom puts it out, and Vanessa tells her she's amazing. Bloom says, "Alfea doesn't offer home ec classes, but it's a cool school for fairies."
Edited: After a quick opening scene at Alfea, we head to Gardenia, where Vanessa's planning to tell Bloom about the day she was adopted, but there's an oven fire that Bloom has to put out. Somehow, the discussion doesn't happen until the end of the episode.
Personally, it makes more sense for Bloom to be all wide-eyed upon finding out that she was adopted, rather than how she was adopted (one of her lines in the unedited is to the tune of "So you're not my real parents?").
Responses:
tanz_fanatika: I like the edited version better for Bloom's adoption. Hiding an adoption and then revealing it dramatically? Cliche. Hiding only the circumstances under which she was adopted? Less cliche. Less cliche is almost always better.
Me: But cliche fits the face better. After all, would you be shocked at the circumstances once you found out you were adopted?
tanz_fanatika: Eh, I'm not a fan of cliche, so I like 4Kids better. Better writing > matching animation. That's my opinion on this scene. It's not changing.
(NB: The point I was trying to make is that the bulk of the drama near the end is Bloom finding out that she's adopted, so what's the point of dubbing that away if Bloom's still going to be surprised and the scene's still going to be dramatic? Meanwhile, I listened to a podcast recapping this very episode that also prefers having Bloom already know she's adopted...)
Incidentally, I tried citing the idea that Bloom's suddenly interested in finding out her real parents, something that I thought wouldn't have been an issue if she already knew, but TF still thought it was overly cliche and added:
"There are a lot of adopted people that don't want to know about their birth parents. A lot. I know a few myself. Some of them simply have no interest in people that ditched them. Others don't want to hurt their adoptive parents. So it's perfectly plausible for Bloom to have had no interest in the subject until she found out her legacy and got permission from Vanessa to continue her search for information."
Other notable changes:
- Bonner and Brown's driver set fire to the flower shop in the original, while Bonner and Bonner started the fire in 4Kids and knocked out their driver for trying to stop them
- In 4Kids there's a vignette around Bloom's vision of Mike finding her in the fire; and although the visuals otherwise remain unchanged, Mike claims in the epilogue that "when I picked you up the whole fire went out, just like that." (However, we actually see Mike pick her up, and the fire continues to burn in the background)
Unedited: We open in Gardenia. Vanessa has to help her cut carrots because home ec isn't exactly Bloom's best subject. As Vanessa is talking to her about how much she's grown, there's an oven fire. Bloom puts it out, and Vanessa tells her she's amazing. Bloom says, "Alfea doesn't offer home ec classes, but it's a cool school for fairies."
Edited: After a quick opening scene at Alfea, we head to Gardenia, where Vanessa's planning to tell Bloom about the day she was adopted, but there's an oven fire that Bloom has to put out. Somehow, the discussion doesn't happen until the end of the episode.
Personally, it makes more sense for Bloom to be all wide-eyed upon finding out that she was adopted, rather than how she was adopted (one of her lines in the unedited is to the tune of "So you're not my real parents?").
Responses:
tanz_fanatika: I like the edited version better for Bloom's adoption. Hiding an adoption and then revealing it dramatically? Cliche. Hiding only the circumstances under which she was adopted? Less cliche. Less cliche is almost always better.
Me: But cliche fits the face better. After all, would you be shocked at the circumstances once you found out you were adopted?
tanz_fanatika: Eh, I'm not a fan of cliche, so I like 4Kids better. Better writing > matching animation. That's my opinion on this scene. It's not changing.
(NB: The point I was trying to make is that the bulk of the drama near the end is Bloom finding out that she's adopted, so what's the point of dubbing that away if Bloom's still going to be surprised and the scene's still going to be dramatic? Meanwhile, I listened to a podcast recapping this very episode that also prefers having Bloom already know she's adopted...)
Incidentally, I tried citing the idea that Bloom's suddenly interested in finding out her real parents, something that I thought wouldn't have been an issue if she already knew, but TF still thought it was overly cliche and added:
"There are a lot of adopted people that don't want to know about their birth parents. A lot. I know a few myself. Some of them simply have no interest in people that ditched them. Others don't want to hurt their adoptive parents. So it's perfectly plausible for Bloom to have had no interest in the subject until she found out her legacy and got permission from Vanessa to continue her search for information."
Other notable changes:
- Bonner and Brown's driver set fire to the flower shop in the original, while Bonner and Bonner started the fire in 4Kids and knocked out their driver for trying to stop them
- In 4Kids there's a vignette around Bloom's vision of Mike finding her in the fire; and although the visuals otherwise remain unchanged, Mike claims in the epilogue that "when I picked you up the whole fire went out, just like that." (However, we actually see Mike pick her up, and the fire continues to burn in the background)
