That stranger at the con told me to watch the dub, not the sub

Last month at Anime NYC, I was complaining to my buddy about how I couldn't get into a certain mecha show, said the pacing was off. This random guy in a Gurren Lagann hoodie overheard me and just said, 'Try episode 4 in English, the timing clicks different.' I brushed him off at first, but three days later I did it, and honestly he was right. The voice actor's delivery in that one scene at the hangar made everything land for me. Has anyone else had a total stranger point them to a specific episode or version that turned a show around?

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price.alice6d ago

Oh man, this is gonna sound bad but I have the exact opposite problem. I'm so stubborn that when a stranger gives me advice I dig my heels in and refuse to try it for like six months out of pure spite. Some guy at a con told me to skip the first arc of a show and I actually argued with him about it for ten minutes. Joke's on me though because I finally caved and he was totally right, the first arc was trash. Now I just stand around at cons hoping random people will fix my watch list for me. It's a terrible system but here we are.

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