Personally, no. I can't speak for others who hold that view, as it's not really something I've talked to others about much. But as someone who generally agrees with that stance, I'd personally say no.

I think smaller/TV actors are exempt from the perils of big name voice actors - because they're less well-known, it's easier to separate them from the characters they voice - if you want to.

Like, in our case, as fans of Colins, we like to connect him with Gerry and Douxie. Doing so helps us enjoy the characters more so.

But I doubt there's anyone out there begrudging the fact that they can't enjoy Gerry the Leprechaun because they can't stop thinking about Colin O'Donoghue every time they hear his voice. Which, I think, is one of the main complaints about hiring celebrities.

Also, he's done different voices/accents in all of his major projects - so he really doesn't have an easily recognizable voice for people other than his main fan base. I mean, even if you watched Once all the way through, you might not pick up on the fact that it's Captain Hook voicing Gerry - because they sound completely different.

But generally speaking, I do agree with the stance. I think big name celebrities with easily recognized voices shouldn't do voice work in animated films - unless they're voicing animated versions/parodies of themselves. When I watch an animated film for the purpose of hearing Colin's voice work, then yes... I'm actively seeking to connect the celebrity voice with the character. But when I'm watching an animated film to watch an animated film... I really don't like it when Mel Gibson's voice is suddenly coming out of a 2D fish, because now I'm no longer thinking about the 2D world they're building on the screen. Now I'm also thinking "Who is that? I KNOW that voice! Oh yeah, it's Mel Gibson." and now I'm gonna forever connect Mel Gibson with that character.

And even if it's a celebrity I really like... it's still going to ruin the character for me, and possibly the entire film. Because it just... takes away from it all. It lessens the character for me, and that lessens their role, and that often lessens the entire movie. It's one of the main reasons I never got into Shrek, and my main complaint about Finding Nemo/Dory.

😂😂😂 I have no idea!

Maybe a mix of both!

I always imagine him picking up some mangy cat that’s hanging around at port one day..

A scraggy thing he can’t help feel sorry for (though he’ll deny it completely) and keeps it on board to keep the rats and mice away...

He claims it’s only there to do a job and moans about it... but it finds a way almost as if by ‘magic’ into his quarters at night and curls up in his chair. 

He didn’t let it in, don’t be absurd! The blighter must’ve snuck in when he wasn’t looking 👀

And he didn’t give it those off cuts of ham, the toerag ‘stole’ them off his plate.

In a few minutes Coe’s ship opened fire again. According to William Walsh, the first two cheeses went sailing over the mark, but finally one crashed into the main mast of the Brazilian ship, shattering it. Cheese shrapnel killed two sailors standing near the Brazilian admiral. After taking four or five more cheeses through the sails, the Brazilian admiral ordered his ship to retire from the engagement.

ok so out of curiosity for this ask i went and looked at the google trends for the search ‘isoetes’ to see if i like, unintentionally influenced the proliferation of isoetes fanclubs or anything:

okay so not much change (honestly i wonder how many of these searches were my own) but it seems as if isoetes was peaking in 2004. where, i wonder?

ok. now see this is hilarious because Dr. Carl Taylor, one of the world’s leading experts on isoetes, was an author on and published a huge paper about DNA identification of isoetes in 2004. he also works at the smithsonian botany department in washington DC and if i remember correctly still does a lot of work in bodies of water around there.