Welcome to Star Trek. Surely you should know that the Enterprise is always the only ship within in range when Earth is threatened having written trek novels and all.
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Welcome to Star Trek. Surely you should know that the Enterprise is always the only ship within in range when Earth is threatened having written trek novels and all.
I figured as much. He was also Crocker on The Fairly Oddparents.
Yes, it is. Largely because child labor laws make production more difficult.
Damn laws, looking out for people and such.
It's not that unusual. All of the preteen children in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra were played by actual children, including Zach Tyler Eisen and Jessie Flower (now known as Zach Tyler and Michaela Jill Murphy) as Aang and Toph in Avatar and Kiernan Shipka, Darcy Rose Byrnes, and Logan Wells as Tenzin's children in Korra. In Netflix's The Dragon Prince, the 10-year-old boy prince is played by a preteen girl (well, she's a teenager now).
And of course, all the Peanuts animated productions over the decades have always used young children as the voice cast, even though many of them couldn't act worth a damn.
After all, voice work doesn't take anywhere near as much time or effort as live-action production. You can record entire episodes' worth of dialogue in a single afternoon, without needing to worry about costumes or makeup or hot stage lights. So it's much easier to stay within the time limits for child actors.
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That was their trademark, but they weren't unique. Using adult women to voice children has long been common, but never universal. Filmation shows in the '70s often had the children of the producers and staffers do voice roles (see ST:TAS: "Yesteryear," for example). I think I vaguely remember the occasional Warner Bros. cartoon from the '50s or '60s that had a child actor or two.
I believe Hey Arnold! also had actual kids do most of the voices (or at least they were kids when the show began). That's why Arnold has five different voice actors over the course of the series and the two movies. The same with young Enzo on ReBoot. The actors keep outgrowing the characters and sound too old for the parts.
The week after Lower Decks ends, maybe? I don’t think S2 Picard is ready to go yet, which will likely start after S1 Prodigy completes. That would be my guess anyway.
Filmation's He-Man had the same five actors doing all of the parts in every episode.
Filmation shows usually had small numbers of credited actors, but often used other actors without credit, particularly the staff's family members. For instance, producer Lou Scheimer's wife Jay played Queen Marlena without credit. Scheimer himself played countless characters (including Orko and Randor) credited as Erik Gunden, and his daughter Erika Scheimer was the fifth credited cast member. (Interestingly, she seemed to get voice credit more often than her other family members, although in Space Academy she was billed as "E.C.S.," possibly to make it seem like the voice of the robot Peepo was a real computer or something.)
So that means the only main He-Man cast members who weren't part of the Scheimer family were John Erwin, Alan Oppenheimer, and Linda Gary. (Who was occasionally credited as Linda Gray by mistake, so for years I thought she was the same actress who played Sue Ellen in Dallas.)
It reminds me of Family Guy (Seth MacFarlane does about half the voices on that show).
Ugh, don't remind me. It was when I was watching Hellboy 2 that I realized MacFarlane only actually does one character voice. He can modulate the pitch and timbre of his voice, put on the occasional accent, but every one of his characters has essentially the same unvarying speech rhythm and attitude, and I got really sick of it after a while. Granted, Lou Scheimer was far from a great actor, but at least he could bring different personalities to his characters, e.g. Randor's slow, dignified delivery vs. Orko's cheerful childishness.
He does a lot of the voices on FG for two reasons:
1) Budget (always helps).
2) He has a certain idea as to how he wants a character to sound -- so he does it himself.
That's exactly the problem. He thinks his characters sound different, but they really don't. He can create different vocal timbres, but not different characterizations.
Of course, there's nothing new about animation using a small number of actors. Mel Blanc did the overwhelming majority of voices for Warner Bros. cartoons, with a few exceptions like Elmer Fudd (Arthur Q. Bryan) and various female characters (usually June Foray). Early Hanna-Barbera TV series relied almost exclusively on Daws Butler and Don Messick.
You are much wiser than I am. It took me a couple of years of casual viewership and no research to find out Brian/Peter/Stewie/Quagmire were all the same guy.......I don't think he was even on my radar until he had the bit part on Enterprise.
Well, like I said, it didn't really strike me until I saw Hellboy 2. But once I realized it, I couldn't stop hearing it.
... As you said.
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