Okay, first of all, this is obviously a very unfortunate shortcut for this: https://lifeoftheroyals.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/the-toilets-or-lack-of-of-versailles/

Dear Tor Books;

Well, he doesn’t also get that Damon’s character REALLY is there for us Western public to bug off and get a big white hero to relate. What is important is the Asian cast and they have the best roles. It feels a bit like two movies in it.

We still have it. It holds strong for TV purposes, because the elderly/kids can’t really read subtitles, and dubbing is more expensive. After a while the lector’s voice somehow blends into the original voices and you stop noticing it - it’s something that brain does, apparently. That’s why it is as neutral as…

Actually, from the emails, I get the feeling that Tilda is the nicest person ever with a huge impostor syndrome and “male” pattern of interaction. She might be genuinely shy. She also reads things just exactly as they look on the tin . While Cho strikes me as the bumblebee extrovert type who takes advantage of her…