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Great fun, but sack the Sound Editor


I have a decent surround sound system, but even with the centre speaker's sound maxed out in episode 6 it was barely possible to make out the dialogue in some scenes due to unnecessarily loud soundtrack and badly balanced background noise like footsteps etc.

And when you've got whispered dialogue in some scenes, and loud action in another, it's necessary to balance the entire episode because this is a TV programme and strangely people are going to be mostly watching it on a TELEVISION and not in a cinema, we don't want to be constantly changing the volume so we can hear the whispering and then not blow the windows out when the pointlessly unimaginative "mood music" kicks in!

This series is massively far-fetched and you have to suspend most of your notions of reality and just go along for an amusing ride. But when that ride is ruined by incompetent sound editing or the director decides the background music is more important than the dialogue, then it may be time to bin it and watch something else instead.

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Use subtitles?

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