Plot: TP Lady (disguised as Ms. Aino) concocts a plan to have Dr. Yamato willingly give her all of their Space-Time Monsters by claiming their presence is making Genshi act poorly in school. A clip show ensues.
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Title Change: The Visiting Lady is TP Lady? is changed to Miss Iknow Makes a House Call.
Different establishing shot at the very beginning.
We hear Genshi chasing Honey-Honey in the original, but in the dub we hear Petra telling Dino and Mite to hurry up.
Saban pointlessly shoves in a brief shot of Petra opening the hatch to her ship only to yell “I want that Time Shifter!” and then closing it back up before transforming the ship.
TP Lady reveals that her fake (?) full name is Hitomi Aino. In the dub, we’ve only ever known her as Miss Iknow.
They add a wipe transition when they cut to Flint and the others dancing.
Originally, Honey-Honey was shown first and then Genshi. In the dub, it’s reversed.
Oh and hi Elfin. How strange of you to exist considering we skipped over your episode in the dub and won’t meet you until the very end of the series.
Ya know, it never really occurred to me until this moment….Dyna and Mite are posing as the principal and vice principal of their school….What….happened to the real principal and vice principal?….And what happened to their real teacher?
Also, I guess one of them was demoted from vice principal to homeroom teacher in the dub, which is strange because I thought Miss Iknow was their homeroom teacher. What does she teach then?
*snort* The hell Yamato/Goodman!? You just casually admit to someone “Oh, those are just Space-Time Monsters that we’re keeping in our house for a while.”? Isn’t this stuff supposed to be secret?
That was your plan, TP Lady/Petra? To go to their house under the guise of their teacher who is concerned about Genshi/Flint’s behavior, hope a Space-Time Monster randomly pops up and then assert that his issues stem from being around them, which would give you an excuse to take them?
Exactly how dumb are you?
That’d be like saying your dog ate your homework and then your teacher comes to your home to take your dog.
I really, really hate that they kept in that incredibly awkward ‘sparkle-off’ that Kyoichiro and Rei have. No, I won’t explain what I mean by that. Saban even had the balls to make it worse by replaying some of the scene so it goes on for longer.
They added a fade transition between Merlock handing over the report and cutting back to the house.
In fact –
Entire Series Edit: There are random transitions added here and there. They’re not constant, like with 4Kids’ dub of Yu-Gi-Oh GX, but they’re prominent enough for me to finally add this note.
Yeah, this episode is mostly a clip show as they explain to Ms. Aino their situation and why Genshi should be excused for his behavior and keep their Space-Time Monsters.
The dub adds clips explaining why Ototan ended up as a stone slab when the original didn’t. I actually like this addition because it seems really weird how the original clips started when Ototan was explaining why he was a stone ‘axe’ but it ended without explaining why he was a stone axe.
….Also, I guess it was this episode where Saban realized they screwed up calling Flint’s dad ‘Rocky Hammerhead’ and giving his signature move the name ‘Hammerhead Rock!’….when he’s actually an axe not a hammer.
I still love how they’re all so casually discussing this. I know that this is TP Lady, Dyna and Mite, but if a normal person were hearing this they’d flip out.
Okay, so now Yamato just has video footage of each mission they’ve gone on? I could maybe understand Ridon keeping logs, but Ridon’s not around all the time. In fact, it’s usually hidden somewhere. There are also camera angles that would be impossible to get. If you guys want to have a clip show, fine, but if you’re going to show video footage for your clips at least explain how you obtained that footage. What, did Toki-G send you copies since he can, somehow, observe Genshi and co. on their missions at all times through his little screen thing?
By the way, if this were just one or two flashbacks, I’d do what I normally do and check each clip to ensure it’s the same (4Kids has a habit of redubbing their flashbacks making them very obviously wrong from what they originally were, when that’s more work and more money and more confusing) but since there are so many clips today, I’m just going to assume Saban’s not as stupid as 4Kids.
They cut off the Mosbee clip at the end where Flint was meant to be shown thanking Mosbee for helping.
In the original, Genshi just laughs when Ms. Aino and the others assert that the Space-Time Monsters have to go with them. In the dub, he tells them they don’t have to take them. I like the dub a lot better because Genshi might be an idiot but he’d never laugh in response to someone threatening to take away his friends. The kid’s all about friendship. Haven’t you heard his incessantly annoying friendship song?
It’s depressing and hilarious that the commercial break cliffhanger today ‘Well, Talun’s a useless pile of crap who taught Genshi to be a coward. Guess we’re taking the Space-Time Monsters!’
Also, it’s really cute that the fossil-living version eyecatch today is Genshi.
They’re even recycling footage from this very episode. Their budget must’ve been so tight at this point.
They add in an establishing shot of the building where Rei works before we get the scene of Merlock’s report.
They also insert a shot of the Bureau of Time and Space before we cut back to Yamato.
Genshi asks Talun if he doesn’t like staying with them. Talun shakes his head ‘no’. Genshi then asks if Talun doesn’t like being with everyone. Talun shakes his head ‘no’ again. Finally, Genshi asks if Talun doesn’t like being with him. Talun shakes his head ‘no.’
……Genshi says there’s no problem then, and that Talun should stay because they’re friends.
I think either the subs are strange here or this part wasn’t articulated well in the writing. I imagine Talun was trying to say that, no, it’s not that he doesn’t like living there, being with them and being with Genshi. However, the way the scene goes, it’s like he’s agreeing and saying ‘No, I don’t like this place, everyone else or Genshi.’
I actually thought Genshi was telling Talun it was okay to leave when he said there was no problem.
The dub, however, is much worse, but at least it’s more articulate. Flint is basically guilting Talen into staying by asking “You don’t even have a place to go, do you?” *Talen shakes his head no* “If you leave, you’ll be out there all alone, would you like that?” *Talen shakes his head no* “Then stay. You don’t want everyone to be sad, do you?” *Talen shakes his head no*
This is basically a parent’s default response when a kid wants to run away. Start by pointing out how stupid it is (You don’t have anywhere to go.) continue by making them scared (You’ll be all alone, would you like that?) and finish it off by making them feel guilty and selfish should they run away. (You don’t want everyone to be sad, do you?)
In the original, once you clear up the conversation, you can tell that Genshi is seeing if the decision to leave is really best for Talun. If he really didn’t like living there, or didn’t like Genshi, Sora, Tokio, Yamato or the other Space-Time Monsters, he would accept that Talun should go since he wants Talun to be happy. But since he does like living there and being with everyone, the most logical choice is to stay because they’re all friends. This entire series of questions is for Talun’s sake whereas the dub is only making an already miserable and self-doubting Talen feel even worse.
This is especially bad considering that Talen is running away because he, well, ran away the last time he was called into battle. Responding to him running now by making that decision seem stupid and selfish would only compound his guilt and feelings of worthlessness.
But even the original has its faults.
After that’s all said and done, Putera says that Talun sure is a needy one. Yamato then responds by saying being needy is cute. In the dub, Pterry tells Goodman that he must be relieved. Goodman says that he is because, as Flint said, they’re all a family.
I really don’t like the original lines there because, again, they’re kinda poking fun at/insulting Talun when he already feels like crap. They’re saying it behind his back, but still.
Immediately following that, Putera calls Yamato a doting parent, which makes Yamato blush and laugh. In the dub, Pterry says their family is still growing, which makes Goodman blush and laugh, which is REALLY awkward because it seriously makes it sound like they’re joking about reproduction, especially with Pterry’s facial expression and Goodman’s blush.
I love how Yamato responds to this whole situation with Talun by following it up with more clips of the Space-Time Monsters being all heroic and awesome. Like, ‘Hey Talun! You feel like crap for being a coward and not being useful to Genshi? I know what will make you feel better. Watching these clips of everyone else being brave and useful to Genshi!’
Being fair, the point is to emphasize that, with teamwork, they can do anything, but they’re still not explaining what Talun brings to the team.
Seeing the mockups for what the yet-to-transform Space-Time Monsters will look like as supers is cool, especially considering that some of them never transformed before the series got canceled. Super Sphin and Super Horurun in particular look kickass.
How has Yamato not made one for Love-Love, though? She was the first Space-Time Monster they encountered. It makes her situation even sadder because she never transforms over the course of the series, and now she doesn’t even get a mockup.
Originally, Kyoichiro says he’s become a star (because they’re shooting up into the sky trapped in TP Lady’s mini-cat mecha) TP Lady, Dyna and Mite respond “We all have!” In the dub, Petra says she’s getting air sick, which makes Dino and Mite say “Oh no!”
They repeat the shot of Flint talking before the second shot of Goodman thinking comes in.
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Surprise! This was boring. What else can you expect from a clip show episode? But this one in particular was just bad. The framing for the clips was ridiculous. So, they honestly don’t care who knows about their jobs as Time Detectives or that they’re keeping Space-Time Monsters in their house or that Genshi’s dad is a frickin’ stone axe? They so casually talk about it that I was simply floored. I could swear they’ve actively tried to keep it a secret until now, but they really don’t care. Does the Bureau of Space-Time allow this?
TP Lady’s plan was just stupid. If I was Yamato, I’d go above her head and call the school superintendent or the cops or even Rei or something. She has no right to just come in and demand they hand over the Space-Time Monsters just because Genshi has bad behavior and she blames them for it.
Actually building upon Talun’s failure from one of the previous episodes was unexpected and welcome, but they didn’t really do anything with it. Talun feels better now, which is great, but they didn’t explain why Talun is important to their group or explain how he contributes – just that they’re friends and family. Talun never thought they weren’t friends – he just felt like a useless coward.
I really thought we’d see Talun’s super form in this episode, but, outside of a mockup, we didn’t. They perfectly set up a story in which Talun would prove his worth and be the hero, but they didn’t. His super transformation is shown in the series sometime later, but why set up the moment so well just to squander it?
Plus, we had no historical figure to talk about today nor did I have anything to research – boooooo.
Comparison-wise, it’s pretty balanced. Some changes were for the better in the dub, others were just nonsensical. The worst was Flint’s speech to keep Talen around. The entire sentiment behind it was destroyed in the dub. Oh well, at least I didn’t have any screencaps to get today.
Next time, we meet Super Sentai inspired Space-Time Monsters. I really hope that’s as awesome as it sounds.
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