Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6512-20150908154921/@comment-1672596-20150911104354

Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: [...] Ah, so you admit line delivery CAN be misinterpreted, in regards to the example of your Dad. And you DO have some concept of context, in regards to your Sigint and Kefka examples. What inconsistent and contrary arguments you make.

As for the imbecilic "Cecile is actually a man" vs. "Cecile's English voice actor said a line of dialogue with a particular inflection or tone, so I can assume the character's exact thoughts" argumuent... The phrase "apples and oranges" comes to mind.

A statement based on NO evidence, versus a statement based on flimsy evidence, are still both unreliable statements to be making. If you can't make the distinction, then leave it for more rational people to determine, rather than be a counterproductive nuisance on the Wiki. Problem is, they would have had to cut out the dialogue if she blew it and be required to do several retakes if that wasn't the way it was supposed to be done. That's usually why developing a movie, TV show, or game that requires acting usually has a fairly long development period and don't just make it on the spot, since they need to do several retakes before it can actually work well.

Not to mention blowing line delivery can also harm a work as well, sometimes the cases are actually the people in charge's fault rather than just the actor/actress. One of the complaints for the infamous game Metroid: Other M was that Samus came across as completely monotone as if just reading lines from a script. It wasn't that her voice actress was bad, actually, she did very well in those web videos, but rather it was because Sakamoto demanded that she sound as detached as possible, apparently because in Japan at least, that's the sign of a badass. And let's not get started on how part of the reason Raiden was ill-received in the West initially was because Quinton Flynn took Kris Zimmerman's advice of sounding like an adult Johnny Quest.

So no, it's pretty clear what she was trying to convey, not simply personal interpretation. And no, those things weren't imbecilic, either.