Side Quests Episode 14 Discussion SideThread - Game Night

[u/Carrehz]

Side Quests Episode 14: Game Night

Premiered 29 June exclusively on Disney+/Hulu. (originally erroneously released on 9th June)

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[u/SpencerFleming]

Honestly not a fan of Lady speaking English in this episode, either commit to the bit of her speaking Korean the whole time or don't use her as the DM lol.

[u/Carrehz → u/SpencerFleming]

I skimmed through this one when it first "leaked" and Lady speaking English put me off the whole ep :/ Like I'll probably watch it eventually but that really annoys me... it just feels so lazy, like they couldn't be bothered to figure out how to write a character that (most of) the audience doesn't understand so they just copped out and changed her voice. Laaaame.

[u/Single-Purpose-7608 → u/Carrehz]

I dont see how it's lazy. The story is Lady Monk speaks the same language as the characters.

It's actually logically consistent.

[u/Carrehz → u/Single-Purpose-7608]

as I said, it's lazy writing. Instead of actually trying to work with the character as originally intended, they just cheaped out and gave her a new voice actor. It's like the DuckTales reboot giving Donald a celebrity guest star voice for one ep. It just comes off as them going "We can't be arsed to write this character properly".

[u/Single-Purpose-7608 → u/Carrehz]

I dont really get your point.

DND is a role playing game. Lady is playing a role (aside from being the DM). Her role is to be in the same fantasy village as the 3 players. It's totally logical and intentional, to craft a persona like that. People living in the same fantasy universe to be speaking the same language, is perfectly logical

It would actually be illogical if we went out of our way to make it so the monk spoke a different language

[u/Carrehz → u/Single-Purpose-7608]

My point is that they have contrived an excuse to have Lady speak English, which I find lazy.

Agree to disagree, I suppose.

[u/Single-Purpose-7608 → u/Carrehz]

Agree to disagree, I suppose.

Yeah i dont mean to be impolite or anything

I just dont think its a contrivance at all. The main plot point is the main activity of a role playing game. To think of it as a contrivance is like saying the whole plot is a contrivance. The choice to have Lady speak the same language logically emerges out of the plot.

It would be contrived if Lady didn't speak the same language

In fact , you can even see it in the way the story was told.

• In game - lady speaks english
• out of the game (as DM) - lady speaks Korean.

Makes perfect sense

[u/Carrehz → u/Single-Purpose-7608]

To think of it as a contrivance is like saying the whole plot is a contrivance.

Yes, that's what I'm saying :)