A bird’s eye view of the three. Ritsuko is already sitting down.
Shinji:“My father did that…?
?”
Ritsuko:“That's when he burned his palms.”
Reichu (Quoting the Platinum dub): “Bullshit! My father did that?”
thewayneiac: Way to add gratuitous cursing, ADV. That really doesn't match the tone of this scene at all.
Cody MacArthur Fett: Shinji's disbelieving exclamation of "Bullshit!" in the ADV dub once again cements his status as the Audience Surrogate. In this case it's a reference to the popular belief that Gendo Ikari has no soul, only another AT Field.
thewayneiac: That's a popular belief? Anyway, his status doesn't need to be cemented any more than it was in the original. Adding things that aren't in the original isn't proper translation. And as I said, it wreaks the whole tone of the scene, which is all about Shinji's astonished disbelief in seeing a side of his father that he's never before seen. It doesn't fit the expression we've seen on his face his entire sequence. It's just one more strike against the dub, especially in light of the fact that it was added to Platinum. They didn't learn anything from when they originally dubbed the show.
