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"Chinmoku no Messiah Kakusei? Unmei no Hoshiboshi" (The Messiah of Silence awakens? The Fate of the Stars) |
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112 | "Goodness Eclipsed" | 00-9-13 |
On 7/21, I anxiously awaited to see this episode of the S season. This episode is the first climax of two climaxes in the season, and thus, is a very, VERY, important episode. Infact, the rest of the season just doesn't make much sense without this episode. So I anxiously waited to see what Cloverway would do with this episode.
About 2 minutes in, I realized something was SERIOUSLY wrong. I was confused as this episode didn't look like the episode I was expecting....then, it hit me. CARTOON NETWORK HAD SKIPPED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EPISODES IN THE ENTIRE SEASON! What......THE....HELL....is their problem!??!?!?! I clenched my fist, took my remote, and threw it at my TV. Luckily, nothing broke, but you get the picture of my anger. I was extremely upset, and I wanted to know who skipped the episode, Cloverway, or Cartoon Network. I came to a conclusion very fast. Since Optimum said that they WERE dubbing all 77 episodes in the S and SuperS seasons, it couldn't have been Cloverway/Optimum. It was Cartoon Network. The Network that we all loved and cherished for bringing us some high quality (well, semi-high quality) anime and trying to keep it all "un-edited" had skipped _THE_ most important episode in the entire season! I wanted some answers. Unfortunately, I got none. Cartoon Network has NEVER spoken about the incident, luckily, we got an answer from the people we would have least expected, Cloverway.
Cloverway said themselves that Cartoon Network found the episode "inappropriate" because of the nakedness of the daimon in the episode, so Cartoon Network had sent the episode back to Cloverway for some digital painting. Of course, Cartoon Network, being the idiots that they are, just continued the season like nothing had happened at all. This, my loyal viewers of Sailor Moon Uncensored, is the EXACT second that I lost all respect for Cartoon Network. The network that we loved and cherished so much had betrayed every single Sailor Moon fan in the United States. Not only that, but they wont even ADMIT to their wrong doing, even though being asked several times. Oy vey, so this means we now have four evil companies to worry about, Cloverway, Optimum, DiC, and now the Cartoon Network, how disappointing.....
ANYWAY! Onto the actual episode itself, Cartoon Network played the episode during the re-run of the S season...with a few changes. For one, the daimon had a bra and panties on......(o.o;;) As far as editing, script, and other things were concerned, this episode was done pretty poorly in my book. There were FAR too many cuts in this episode, so many that I actually probably missed a few *GASP*. There was also a few rather careless inconsistencies and plot changes too......Oh well, it's definitely not Cloverway's worst work, but it's far from their best.
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I won't repeat any of the above, Bob covered it pretty well, although my anger didn't go as far into chucking things. The skipping of this episode, and the face that Cloverway wasn't even DONE with SMS when it began to air, is shear proof we can probably blame Cartoon Network for the lack of quality and consistencies in this dub. Sean Akins (presidesnt of Toonami) must have been on some sugar high about when the dub was announced, it seems like he had them rush because he was excited to air these seasons. However, when you rush into things, this becomes the result. If he had let Cloverway do their thing without interfering, we would probably be watching a better quality dub. Hopefully Pioneer will deliever that to us, we'll see on 1/23/01. (I'll add to this that a few days later, a Batman episode was played in Spanish. It just wasn't their week.)
Now, the episode itself was pretty darn good. A few stupid things, but soldiers made up for that. But it won't make up for the dumb plot changes. How the Outer Sehnshi just gained this knowledge of Hotaru being Sailor Saturn and the Messiah of Silence (oh, I'm sorry, "Soverign" of Slience, well, thats actually a good name for it) is just beyond me, but pretty good episode overall.
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(5 seconds) The first of a large number of cuts in this episode. After Chibi-Usa asks Usagi for some money, there's a shot of Usagi just sitting there thinking about it that is cut.
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(2 seconds) A shot of the three outer senshi after their conversation is cut. (it's basically the end of that scene)
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(2 seconds) A scene of Hotaru sighing is cut (O.o;;;;)
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Well, the daimon appears and with her, Cartoon Network's infamous BRA AND PANTIES! Great. I'm actually kind of proud of Cloverway for _NOT_ wanting to censor her boobies. At least they're taking risks....kinda.
Let's just hope beyond hope that Cartoon Network never gets ahold of episode 200. I will cry and sink into a deep depression if I see Eternal Naked Usagi (?.?, yes I made that name up....) in a flowered, blue, two-piece bikini. Ahhhhh! Boobies!!! *hides eyes*
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(3 seconds) Some more shots of the daimon attacking people is cut.
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More useless plot changing. The inners seem to talk like they know that Saturn is coming. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Umm, just for the record, they DON'T know _ANYTHING_ about Saturn until she appears.
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