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Topic: Hearing Smurf Voices
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 09-08-2007 03:28 PM
One of the things I do when I'm re-reading my Empath stories is that I actually try to "hear" the voices in my head of the various characters speaking their parts. Papa Smurf still remains voiced by Don Messick (though he's now eternally unavailable), Smurfette is still Lucille Bliss, and pretty much all the characters we know and love from the cartoon show still have their corresponding voice actors. As for Empath, he's being voiced in my head by Robert Duncan McNeil, the guy who played Lt. Tom Paris on Star Trek: Voyager, while Polaris is voiced by Tim Russ, who played Lt. Tuvok on the same show. It does come off rather odd having two Star Trek: Voyager actors doing Smurf voice conversations with the likes of Don Messick and Lucille Bliss in my head. Interestingly, my character Elatia from "Polaris' Fantasy" is being voiced in my head by Martha Hackett, who played the Cardassian Maquis spy Seska on Star Trek: Voyager. I also imagine Kate Mulgrew, better known on the same show as Captain Kathryn Janeway, as the voice of Mama Smurfette from the Smurfette Village, since her speaking voice does come off as somewhat like a female counterpart of Papa Smurf.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4088 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 09-08-2007 07:09 PM
Excellent post, Vic. I love following the voice actors of the Smurfs, wish I could meet them. I like how you have this all thought out for your character's voices. Good imagination and good work. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Vega
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posted 09-09-2007 08:52 AM
You are a very creative person
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 09-09-2007 11:38 AM
The tough one is trying to imagine a voice for the young 70-year-old Smurfling version of Empath, since character-wise in that particular point of time he comes off closer to being like Seven Of Nine.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4088 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 09-09-2007 02:35 PM
Empath was still a Smurfling at age 70? Are the Smurfs Smurflings for that long?
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 09-09-2007 06:27 PM
Empath was (past tense) a Smurfling of 70 years old in the story "The Grouchiest Friendship", which takes place around Chapters 9 and 10 of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf novel. As far as the novel and the short stories are concerned, a Smurf physically ages in 10 years what humans do in 1 year, although mental maturity probably happens differently. One of the proposed ideas I have for an Empath short story that takes place during his visiting years is when he and his fellow Smurfs deal with a crazy phase in their lives akin to the onset of human adolescence and puberty, one which a female race of beings called the Aphrodities try to take advantage of in order to get to Empath.
From the last chapter of "I Believe I Can Fly":
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"So what is this Smurfette like, Handy?" Empath asked, as soon as Handy finished his tale about using the smurfplane to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel.
"Trust me, Empath, you're going to smurf in love at first sight when you smurf her," Handy answered, sounding very confident. "That's how it was when she first smurfed in the village five years ago. Of course, she didn't smurf half as beautiful as she does now when Papa Smurf turned her into a real Smurf. Just don't get your smurfs up about marrying her yet…she still hasn't smurfed up her mind about which Smurf she wants to smurf her heart to for all time."
Empath thought about Handy's warning very seriously. "Considering that incident with the Aphrodities twenty years ago, Handy, this smurf is willing to remain patient for this Smurfette to decide who she wishes to give her full affections to, and this smurf will not stand in her way if whom she chooses is not…!"
And in the last chapter of "Polaris' Fantasy":
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"In all honesty, Empath, this one also wasn't aware of that need for privacy until that moment in the Imaginarium," Polaris admitted. "Though now this one feels an absence in this one's countenance with Elatia no longer present among us, an absence that makes this one feel a bit lonelier."
"This smurf can relate to that feeling, Polaris," Empath responded. "It's called a heartbreak. It happens when the one person we truly love or we thought we love hurts us and then leaves, or hurts us simply by leaving. This smurf's fellow Smurfs felt that before when the Aphrodities tried to lure them into a deadly trap just to get to this smurf about 21 years ago. Papa Smurf felt it when a woodnymph named Flowerbell nearly tricked him into marrying her about 5 years ago. Handy felt it when Marina the mermaid had to be sent back to Atlantica about 4 years ago after they have bravely saved her father King Aquarius. Even humans and other beings like them suffer from heartbreaks."
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4088 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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