Ugh, I'm getting a bad feeling about this.... *cringes*
Every time I look forward to watching D/P, Sarah (usually) gives me a lackluster perfromance.
Oh well, maybe this time, we'll find out that she's actually "changed" and improved from her previous ways (*cough - inconsistency in her Ash voice, not using enough emotion, pronouncing "Pikachu" correctly - cough*). Who knows, maybe "Tears for Fears" will be one of Sarah's
GOOD episodes. That would be awesome! ^_^
And come to think of it, Sarah hasn't given us a
truly spectacular performance in a while (unless you count The Rise of Darkrai, which she did pretty good with I admit, except for certain scenes I didn't like).
That's what I'm hoping for, actually. I want to see a good performance from her, for a change. I really do, because I can't stand to see Ash's character/personality be ruined like it has been in the past season (three words: "Top-Down Training"). Even people on Bulbagarden who
weren't in SOVA noticed a severe lack of emotion from Sarah in that particular episode. That's how bad her performance was, and quite frankly, I was surprised the fandom reacted the way they did in the review thread. Anyway, I just wanted to mention this, because here's no telling what's gonna happen if Sarah doesn't reach people's expectations soon.
- ker-plop wrote:
- And this is why the campaign failed.
Excuse me, but this is an incorrect statement.
You're wrong, because there
NEVER WAS a widespread campaign to boycott D/P in the first place.
Only certain individual members of SOVA chose to participate with this boycott. But still, we're not even sure if we actually
got through to Pokemon USA or Cartoon Network in the first place.
I mean, with a boycott, how can you tell if you're actually
making progress? Have you thought about this before?
Actually, this was talked about once before in the SOVA thread on Bulbagarden (one of the last subjects that Barb brought up). And you see, effective boycotts are quite difficult to pull off, especially if the people involved don't have ratings boxes on their TV sets.
Anyway, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say here. I'm gonna summarize this, just in case you missed anything. I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't boycott CN. Afterall, a boycott, especially one that works, could be very helpful to our cause.
However, my point is, if you plan on running an effective boycott - then you're gonna need
A LOT more people on you're side who are "against" this sort of change. Which means you need to find people who are fans of Pokemon and tell them
NOT to watch D/P (simple, right?). But in addition to this, it would be a very good idea for SOVA to send just
ONE letter to CN, mentioning the fact that we're boycotting D/P (just like Barb suggested a while back). Otherwise, the network won't even be aware that they're losing ratings from us in the first place.
In theory, I believe if we sent CN a letter, with many signatures from people who
aren't going to watch Season 11 (unless the voices are restored) - this could potentially cause CN to go over to Pokemon USA and try to negotiate with them about getting the original cast back. Sounds like a pretty good plan, if you ask me! And now I think you can see why an effective boycott would be a good idea, as this could give us an incredible advantage over CN.
So anyway, I think it will take the combined efforts of every project we have, just to make sure Pokemon USA/CN actually listens to us this time:
1. Pokeball Project (in progress)
2. Noodle Project (also in progress)
3. Boycott (it's up to you, ker plop, and anyone else who isn't watching D/P to speak up; I'm not sure whether I should be included in this, since myself and other SOVA members
ARE watching D/P - that would be lying to them - but then again Pokemon USA/TAJ have lied to us about things as well, so it's anyone's guess as far as what we should do with this boycott thing)
Also, we could even start another project for contacting the advertisers. You know, all those commercials they have during Pokemon D/P, that's how CN gets their money. If we contact those companies directly and say we're not gonna buy their products (the ones in the commercials), then CN will likely be very upset with us. Then ultimately, they would have no choice but to listen to our demands - and by that, I mean they'd be forced to talk with Pokemon USA about getting the VAs back. However, there is just one problem, contacting the advertisers could have
very bad consequences for us.... =(
Advertisers: I honestly believe we should use this project
ONLY as a last resort. Because if we actually went through with this, it could cause more harm than good. And by that, I mean Pokemon could actually be canceled because of this project. And to make matters worse, if the rest of the fandom knew that SOVA was behind this, we'd be in
BIG trouble from everyone. We really don't want this, that's why I think we should contact the advertisers only as a last resort, like if Pokemon USA/CN won't listen to our "loud" voices from the Pokeball Project, nor the Noodle Project. If that were the case, we wouldn't have much of a choice then, but to do something more drastic like taking a risk.
Letters: We've tried just sending CN/Pokemon USA letters before, but to be honest this hasn't worked, because so far it hasn't gotten us anywhere. And to make a long story short, we need to make our voice EVEN LOUDER than before, so that these companies know we mean business. And how can we make our voice louder? By working on the 3 projects I mentioned above! (not the advertisers thing, however: that's our most valuable weapon against Pokemon USA/CN, so we're saving it for last, and we're only gonna use that if it's really necessary)
Come on guys, there's no time to waste! We have to get our VAs back NOW! Because we don't want our Pokemon dub produced like this anymore, with Pokemon USA using just any random VA they comes across! And we especially don't want our favorite characters to be ruined!
As for how I came up with this amazing speech, I have no idea. I just started putting down ideas, then bam, it hit me. I've gotta say, this is one of my best posts of encouragement so far! XD
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