{"id":30665,"date":"2016-02-11T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30665"},"modified":"2016-02-11T19:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:23:32","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep50-zombie-sith-vampire-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30665","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP50: Zombie Sith Vampire Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/go1eSjgmsZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=go1eSjgmsZ4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that Jorak Uln here must be voiced by someone who did a lot of voice work in the 70&#8217;s. When I hear this voice, I get this strange flash of memory for Saturday morning cartoons, back when Hanna-Barbera was one of the giants of the medium, before they become a light snack for Turner Broadcasting. The voice is strikingly familiar, yet I can&#8217;t picture a single specific character associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>So mid-way through the previous paragraph it really started bugging me. So I looked him up. This character is voiced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0919798\/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm\">Frank Welker<\/a>, a man I&#8217;ve been listening to my entire life without ever noticing his name. Check out just a partial list of his voices: Scooby-Doo, Fred (From Scooby-Doo), Megatron, Soundwave, Dr. Claw<span class='snote' title='1'>Hey! I can do this voice!<\/span>, Curious George, some Smurfs, some G. I. Joes, a bunch of mid-period Marvel superheroes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jjk41C5Eh5o\">Schlepcar and Wonderbug<\/a>, and &#8211; as I suspected &#8211; a healthy dose of Hanna-Barbera stuff. He has literally been voicing characters since before I was born. <\/p>\n<p>Which makes me wonder: Welker is the man of a thousand voices. And yet, the creative director chose THIS as the voice of their ancient Sith Lord? Not the Megatron voice? Not something the the Dr. Claw range? None of the other villain voices Welker has done? No? They went with &#8220;goofy, overly nasal voice?&#8221;  That&#8217;s an&#8230; interesting creative decision. <\/p>\n<p>I can only assume this was deliberate. This &#8220;captured in a cutscene&#8221; stuff can really irritate players, and maybe making it slightly comic took the edge off. Maybe making him <em>too<\/em> menacing would run the risk of making this one-off troublemaker into too big a threat. We need Darth Malak to loom large over this story, and we can&#8217;t do that if you run into too many other Very Bad Dudes in your journeys. I mean, they already made this guy a Zombie Sith Vampire Nazi. If he also had a cool voice then they might as well dump this Revan clown and make Jorak Uln the main character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I suspect that Jorak Uln here must be voiced by someone who did a lot of voice work in the 70&#8217;s. When I hear this voice, I get this strange flash of memory for Saturday morning cartoons, back when Hanna-Barbera was one of the giants of the medium, before they become a light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[84,513],"class_list":["post-30665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioware","tag-kotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}