Pippin (Peregrin Took)
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I had every reason to be nervous for the Powerpuff girls reboot. The dexter's lab reboot was universally agreed upon as awful, and 2016 has been the year of disappointing reboots for me (Full house, My big fat Greek wedding). I'm glad to be proven wrong however. It maintains a lot of the zany spirit of the original show minus as much narration which I don't mind as much as I thought I would. The fact that they're living as millennials now also feels natural and not forced. Yes, they have smartphones now, but as superheroes who need to be on call all the time it makes sense, as much as a show about little girl superheroes does, ya know?
I do feel like I need to address the elephant in the room: the new voice actors. After Dexter from Dexter's Lab was basically destroyed with his voice actor changing (no hate on Candi Milo as a voice actress - it was a combination of trying too hard to be Christine Cavanaugh and some weak dialogue on the writers' part), I had my doubts about all three powerpuff girls being replaced.
At the end of the day, I still cannot say that it was the "right decision", but the voices work for me. Besides the fact that canon can technically explain it away (it seems they're not in kindergarten anymore), I've had one particular moment for each where it finally clicked in my head that these voices are actually good:
Blossom: the obsession with taking tests and always carrying pens in the meditation episode
Bubbles: going from super sweet with, "I'll be friends with a real life unicorn" to the dark side with "everyone will see how WRONG THEY WERE" in the unicorn episode
Buttercup: various lines of her fighting with blossom over the concert ticket in the monster island episode
Lastly if we want to get technical, Tara Strong was not the original voice of Bubbles. Kath Soucie did an amazing job as Bubbles in the pilot (the one where Fuzzy Lumpkins turns everything into meat) and each Bubbles brings their own strengths to the character.
So that's my two cents. Can't wait to see more classic villains reappear, and much better artistically than the "dance pantsed" special. What do you guys think?
I do feel like I need to address the elephant in the room: the new voice actors. After Dexter from Dexter's Lab was basically destroyed with his voice actor changing (no hate on Candi Milo as a voice actress - it was a combination of trying too hard to be Christine Cavanaugh and some weak dialogue on the writers' part), I had my doubts about all three powerpuff girls being replaced.
At the end of the day, I still cannot say that it was the "right decision", but the voices work for me. Besides the fact that canon can technically explain it away (it seems they're not in kindergarten anymore), I've had one particular moment for each where it finally clicked in my head that these voices are actually good:
Blossom: the obsession with taking tests and always carrying pens in the meditation episode
Bubbles: going from super sweet with, "I'll be friends with a real life unicorn" to the dark side with "everyone will see how WRONG THEY WERE" in the unicorn episode
Buttercup: various lines of her fighting with blossom over the concert ticket in the monster island episode
Lastly if we want to get technical, Tara Strong was not the original voice of Bubbles. Kath Soucie did an amazing job as Bubbles in the pilot (the one where Fuzzy Lumpkins turns everything into meat) and each Bubbles brings their own strengths to the character.
So that's my two cents. Can't wait to see more classic villains reappear, and much better artistically than the "dance pantsed" special. What do you guys think?
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