Snarky Oracle!
Telly Talk Supreme
I know looping/dubbing is sometimes necessary, especially when the audio from an exterior scene is obstructed by extraneous noise. Sometimes even interior scenes shot in the studio need to be looped because something went wrong on the soundtrack -- and reshooting the scene may not be desired or possible or even needed.
And looping for theatrical movies tends to be better, presumably because there's more time to perfect it and redo it until it's seamless.
But sometimes looping can be so bad that it ruins things. On DALLAS, Seasons 2 and 8 (per DVD count) the looping seems to be particularly excessive -- the street dialogue between Sue Ellen and Pam in Hong Long is dubbed so poorly, that it almost undermines the sense of location (ironically, in the teaser and recap scenes, the same dialogue is not looped and so it comes off much better).
It occasionally happens other times: Pam & Bobby's break up scene in Thanksgiving Square early in Season 7 (DVD) is profoundly damaged by lousy looping.
And looping for theatrical movies tends to be better, presumably because there's more time to perfect it and redo it until it's seamless.
But sometimes looping can be so bad that it ruins things. On DALLAS, Seasons 2 and 8 (per DVD count) the looping seems to be particularly excessive -- the street dialogue between Sue Ellen and Pam in Hong Long is dubbed so poorly, that it almost undermines the sense of location (ironically, in the teaser and recap scenes, the same dialogue is not looped and so it comes off much better).
It occasionally happens other times: Pam & Bobby's break up scene in Thanksgiving Square early in Season 7 (DVD) is profoundly damaged by lousy looping.
