[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It's TVN. It seems like they decided for the 2007 series (this and Den-O) that they would try to be as literal in their subs as possible, to the point of actually trying to use the same sentence structure even though Japanese grammar works completely differently from English.

My favourite was at the start when Black talks about being scared of the curse, before Red immediately bursts into this long rant along the lines of 'SO YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOU CANNOT BEAT ME! HAH! YOU THINK YOU CAN SURPASS ME!' in what, from the way it reads, sounds awfully close to those dubbed martial arts films I watched as a kid, I could almost see his mouth moving to words he isn't actually saying.

Not only does the dialogue not flow at all, it sounds totally unnatural. And that is before they start dumping exposition about Pharaoh's curses while the actors try their hardest to not sound like they're reading from Wikipedia.