BGC 2040 coming to SBS

[Israfel]

http://www.sbs.com.au/tvindex_set.html

on saturday May 19th they are showing 26 episodes *runs to the store to buy a dozen videos to tape them on

[El^Presidente]

I think we already knew this

[eva2000]

but it doesn't hurt to be reminded now and again :)

[El^Presidente]

I suppose :)

[Israfel]

well I haven't seen the series so I am excited!!! :D

[Ronin Aquila]

2040 is a gritty and intense series that succeeds where the original has faltered: maintaining a balance between tender and touching humanity and apocalyptic horror. Also, gone are the GOD DREADFUL hairstyles and CHEESY 80's rock and IN are the subtle and sombre bass guitar tunes.

LONG LIVE 2040!!

[death]

Hey! The musice wasent that bad. But i will admit the hair was pritty bad.

[Oogami Ichirou]

I sorta liked the old BGC :heh: I am thinking of buying this series on DVD soon... will SBS show everything uncut?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Oogami Ichirou
I sorta liked the old BGC :heh: I am thinking of buying this series on DVD soon... will SBS show everything uncut? yes i believe so ...

[death]

i dont think theres a lot they can cut

[Ronin Aquila]

If they attempt to mutilate it according to ironclad western morality, there would be precious few seconds left of any episodes left to show in the end. Hence they wisely settled for the profitable option of showing completely uncut episodes.

On a related note, Channel 7 showed "Silence of the Lambs" last Saturday at an "Adults Only" timeslot, and yet hypocritcally shortned Dr Lecter's brutal beating of a security guard with a billy club. Just goes to show that few things are safe from the filth soaked claws of censors, anime or otherwise.

[death]

look its SBS. They wont cut it up. The only thing they cut was Ninja scroll. They dident cut goku so at a guess they wont cut BG crisis

[eva2000]

=> http://www.eva2000.com/news/bgc2040.shtml :heh:

[death]

Ohhh i cant wait for you to get the sight up and running

[Ronin Aquila]

If only they showed the subtitled version!! Its not as if the people who watch SBS are illiterate, dammit!! Why bother subtitling and showing foreign movies if that were the case!!

GIVE US SUBTITLED ANIME, PLEASE!!

[El^Presidente]

Dubbed BGC:2040 isn't that bad

[Ronin Aquila]

Sure, the dialogue of the dub is as witty, if not more so in places, than the original. For instance, in the scene when Linna contemplates what she would do to her perverted superior employee:

Japanese: I'll kill him

English: OOOOOOO!! I'd like to rip out HIS core!!

Given a choice I think anybody would find the second version more hilarious and witty than the palin and dry original.

However, one of THE gaping wounds of dubbed 2040 is Hillary Haag's absolutely ATROCIOUS performance of the formerly Kawaii Nene Romanova. Hillary made her sound like a cross between Fran Drescher on PMS and an old tom cat being castrated by a rusty chainsaw.

Otherwise, the dub is somewhat tolerable.

[death]

What am i meant to be looking at EVA 2000?

[El^Presidente]

I never saw the original, so I have to say that her voice sounds alright.