michaeljtrubic

If you had ever appeared on a stage you would have been taught how to speak and be understood. I rely on subtitles as many words are slurred together in uninterpretable sequences of vowels and consonants. Many key emphases for words we use in North America are completely missing.

Often a director misses this because he knows what the lines spoken are supposed to be and is instead watching the actors faces rather than listening to what is coming out of them. Keira and Ben are perfectly understandable but the rest are not.

Its too bad the series came out all at once or we could expect some improvements in later episodes with feedback such as this.

Its a shame when the work is largely dialog driven.

Background electronic music too loud at times

During the interrogation scene at the police station (in which the actors spoke very quietly) the electronic keyboard music was overpowering the dialog.

It's ok to have loud music during an action scene or even a suspenseful scene without dialog but when crucial relevant dialog is being shared with both the investigating characters and the audience for the first time you should be able to hear a pin drop.

You need to work on this.

Perhaps the editor was too focused on the visuals rather than the audio and dialog.

In these kinds of shows dialog is the most important element.

Even the principals use them once or twice per paragraph.

It's excessive.

It's redundant.

It's offensive.

It doesn't add emphasis or texture to the scene, it is blatantly offensive.

Add the fact that it comes from law enforcement officers at virtually 100% of all of their interactions with members of the public as well as fellow officers leads me to believe that Alaska must be a terrible place to live and a terrible place to visit.

Perhaps this franchise has devolved into a terrible place to work at and/or write for.

I've heard of actors having the ability to change their lines.

And if so many actors have decided on their own to pepper their dialog with expletives, they must never want to work with producers of this series ever again.

Really the constant swearing is far far too much.

Also there might be a better than average chance that a producer, on his/her own, has decided to spice up the dialog for their own twisted reasons.