season 4 Giles Voice

[TheSlayerInMe]

Ok so.. im bad i cant remember the name of the ep lol.. but its the one where them 3 demons are trying to end the world, by opening the hell mouth, and they themselves are the sacrafices.. and the one where willow and xander find out about riley being in the iniative thing... but anyway back to the point...

Has anyone noticed. that Giles speaks differently... ?

Especially when buffy goes to his house just after the earth quake.

Why is this .. did joss and others think he was getting to american and tried to put on a more british accent back in?

Was it somebody elses voice... ?

whats the deal cos it really annoys me everytime i hear it.. i mean i think its only this episode that his voice is like that too..

any thoughts?

thanks much love xx

[vampmogs]

You know this always bugs me too!

The episode is called 'Doomed' when Giles is speaking to Buffy at his house just after the earthquake like you said. He has a map in his hand and is trying to work out a pattern with the commando sightings. He speaks very differently.

I've tried to work out if it is actually Anthony Head in a studio saying his lines for some reason as sometimes it sounds weird when an actor says the lines in a studio then they play it over the scene instead, sometimes they do it if the actor has lost their voice ect. Or if Anthony Head was just really sounded very british that day for some reason. I can't work it out but yes it sounds very strange.

I'm glad someone else noticed. As soon as I saw the thread title I knew this was going to be the scene you mentioned.

[Jenni Lou]

Huh. I never did notice at all. It's been awhile though.

But Olivia did visit in the previous episode and sometimes when you are around someone with an accent you tend to pick it up in your own speech. SO maybe his more intense accent re-emerged.

Of course they weren't doing much talking in Hush so...yeah.

[KingofCretins]

Of course they weren't doing much talking in Hush so...yeah.

Also, there was this spell that took away their voices :ninja:

I'm trying to think of something to add to keep that from being spam, but I don't even remember there being a major difference.

[Naia]

I've tried to work out if it is actually Anthony Head in a studio saying his lines for some reason as sometimes it sounds weird when an actor says the lines in a studio then they play it over the scene instead, sometimes they do it if the actor has lost their voice ect. Or if Anthony Head was just really sounded very british that day for some reason. I can't work it out but yes it sounds very strange.

My vote is on Anthony Head being in the studio. The quality and resonance is just wrong, even the pitch is slightly off compared to what it usually sounds like when recorded on the set. If you listen to the audio of Buffy lines in the invisible-Buffy episode, it's the same quality going on there. When I first watched the episode, I was really surprised by how off it sounded to my ears. Though it makes me wonder, if Anthony Head was ill that day and they did the studio dub because of that, why didn't they do it for Geller when she is so obviously croaky and unwell those two episodes in Season 7? Budget? Time constraints?

[KingofCretins]

I think they decided that Sarah's voice when she was sick for "Empty Places" and "Touched" just worked for the context -- she got the snot beaten out of her in "Dirty Girls" and "Empty Places", and then all the emotional beating as well, with Xander losing his eye, getting kicked out. Just makes sense that she'd sound out of it.

[BlasterBoy]

This has always annoyed me, so much! I think it happens more than once, actually, and it sounds like a voice recording in the studio. But, my question would be, why would they be doing it in a studio? It makes no sense

[Naia]

I think they decided that Sarah's voice when she was sick for "Empty Places" and "Touched" just worked for the context -- she got the snot beaten out of her in "Dirty Girls" and "Empty Places", and then all the emotional beating as well, with Xander losing his eye, getting kicked out. Just makes sense that she'd sound out of it.

Hope this isn't too close to being OT, but "Empty Places" level of sick yes, but as for the other (after consulting the revered box set) I was more thinking "The Killer in Me". SMG seems ill to the point that just moving is tiring, let alone how her voice sounds. So it does surprise me for that one that they didn't try to do something to mask it a bit better. But it was still a great episode even with SMG seeming so unwell.