Watching fansubbed Digimon Tamers and every so often I find myself thinking "the dub would have filed this silent section with nonsense throwaway lines".
I feel like old dubs maybe didn't have much respect for the sound design of their source material.
Dub audio pondering
What I then wonder, is why did dubs feel the need to fill their audio with extra lines, or even replace intentional ambience/music choices with repetitive tracks?
There's at least one evolution/card slash sequence in Tamers where the music of the scene continues instead of the usual theme. Usually a mysterious or sombre theme. The dub would just use the usual action theme every time.
Is it that dubbers felt that w̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶n̶ American kids wouldn't be engaged? Would US kids *not* have been engaged? Or was it a self-fulfilling design choice, where by presuming kids wouldn't appreciate certain audio design and filling dubs with noise, that is exactly what kids ended up desiring?
