Talk:Slice of Life/@comment-5288784-20150616230610

The episode was awesome and all, but…

You know, you don't often hear people complaining about the original cast, but I shall.

All of the guys voicing this episode did a great job, so did Kazumi Evans as Octavia, but I can't help but notice that some of the female VAs are overused. It's more or less fine to have a group of actors that voice many secondary and background characters. It's also fine to assign a couple of roles to the actor voicing a main character. Giving more than one main character is also acceptable (as long as the actor can make them sound differently, and, in case of this show, they can)…

But it's neither of those situations! Andrea Libman, Cathy Weseluck, Ashleigh Ball are assigned to too many roles. Whenever their characters spoke in this episode after a couple of seconds I just couldn't help but imagine their main characters speaking instead. Good job to Andrea and Ashleigh for making their main characters sound distinct, but they simply are not able to extend that to secondary characters.

And this overusage is going into extreme levels. You know that some foreign dubbings are ridiculed for "changing" the gender of characters? Well, I admit, those cases are oft more extreme than whatever you can see in English version, but when the actors I've mentioned earlier are voicing even some stallions (and I mean adult ones), then something is clearly wrong. I do not expect the variety that Japanese dubbing presents (I do not often praise that version, but you certainly can't accuse them of using too small cast) but there is yet a room for improvement.

Good job to Tabitha as I haven't felt she appeared too often (Rarity is just so unique sounding), but I'm not sure if I liked Derpy's voice. I mean, it's not bad, I certainly won't raise a pitchfork or send angry letters, but it was, I don't know how to call it… Bland? Or maybe it was acting. With bland acting you can make me dislike any character. Even Maud (in fact, only after watching Polish version I find her tolerable).