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spiderbraids1x16: Cold Spell / The Nightmare Monster
Instead of an ep about Icy turning Stella into an ice statue at a parental meeting, the Rai English title finds itself attached to an episode about nightmares instead... I only had one (well, plus a half if you're counting the previous episode) thought about this one:
Minor thought on the nightmares:
Unedited: Little to no dialog.
Edited: A good deal of dialog.
Personally, it works better without the dialog (heck, I could say the same for MANY scenes on this show).
Response:
tf: I like the dialogue in the nightmares. My nightmares have tons of dialogue. Seems more realistic to me.
(NB: I've always thought that 4Kids should have generally refrained from adding dialog where the original had none [this was not just an issue with Winx Club], but I once suggested this in email with TF [along the lines that there should only be dialog when the character is actually shown speaking it], and she responded, "I like voice-overs. They're kinda dramatic"... and TF would often try to defend certain aspects of the show as being more "realistic" :-\ This won't be the only time that I thought "At least TF will agree with me about this one" and ended up being wrong)
It turns out that they also swapped the two halves of Stella's nightmare around in 4Kids: the original has Stella looking in a mirror and getting engulfed in its energy, and then seeing images of her parents; while 4Kids has Stella's parents appearing first, and then the mirror part coming afterwards. Also, the 4Kids dialog just flat-out spells out what the nightmares are about (in this case, the divorce of her parents, followed by the mirror calling her a loser), when the original silence leaves it all up to interpretation :-\
(And in any case, you could argue that the dialog doesn't make Tecna's nightmare make any more sense, LOL)
Also, the Winx's discussion at the quad somewhat abruptly switches gears from discussing the nightmare monster to discussing their parents in the original, but in 4Kids, Bloom has her suspicions that the Trix are coming after her and that it has something to do with her past :-)
Instead of an ep about Icy turning Stella into an ice statue at a parental meeting, the Rai English title finds itself attached to an episode about nightmares instead... I only had one (well, plus a half if you're counting the previous episode) thought about this one:
Minor thought on the nightmares:
Unedited: Little to no dialog.
Edited: A good deal of dialog.
Personally, it works better without the dialog (heck, I could say the same for MANY scenes on this show).
Response:
tf: I like the dialogue in the nightmares. My nightmares have tons of dialogue. Seems more realistic to me.
(NB: I've always thought that 4Kids should have generally refrained from adding dialog where the original had none [this was not just an issue with Winx Club], but I once suggested this in email with TF [along the lines that there should only be dialog when the character is actually shown speaking it], and she responded, "I like voice-overs. They're kinda dramatic"... and TF would often try to defend certain aspects of the show as being more "realistic" :-\ This won't be the only time that I thought "At least TF will agree with me about this one" and ended up being wrong)
It turns out that they also swapped the two halves of Stella's nightmare around in 4Kids: the original has Stella looking in a mirror and getting engulfed in its energy, and then seeing images of her parents; while 4Kids has Stella's parents appearing first, and then the mirror part coming afterwards. Also, the 4Kids dialog just flat-out spells out what the nightmares are about (in this case, the divorce of her parents, followed by the mirror calling her a loser), when the original silence leaves it all up to interpretation :-\
(And in any case, you could argue that the dialog doesn't make Tecna's nightmare make any more sense, LOL)
Also, the Winx's discussion at the quad somewhat abruptly switches gears from discussing the nightmare monster to discussing their parents in the original, but in 4Kids, Bloom has her suspicions that the Trix are coming after her and that it has something to do with her past :-)
