But I thought you didn't want the "
LGBT stuff." Wouldn't the removal make the Optimum/DiC dub an improvement?
Aside from FCC and marketing concerns, there's also an important point about the DIC dub that is lost in binge-TV 2020.
Sailor Moon was aired every single day in syndication.
This might not seem like a distinction that has an important impact, but in the end, it does mean a lot. The original version was aired once-a-week. That makes each airing less disposable, and thus that meant when something wasn't resolved in an episode, viewers had to wait 7 days for a new episode.
When brought over to the U.S Sailor Moon aired five days a week, which makes each individual episode more "disposable," even accounting for the filler There's a reason why DIC added a lot of expository lines in episodes -- they know that if a show airs every day, there's a good chance that like a soap opera, a viewer may miss an episode. Even if every single moment of Sailor Moon Classic had been dubbed and aired, the whole Classic series finale still would have a muted impact because in a few days, the Sailor Scouts were back like new.....just like how in syndicated cartoons there were procedural plots, but never any progress. Mario and Luigi would never get any closer to returning home to Brooklyn in the animated segments of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show., and so would Sailor Moon and her Sailor Scouts would always be. In fact the only true two-parter in the DiC dub is "Secret Garden" and "Treed" in which you would have to watch both to make sense of what happens. Even "A Crystal Clear Destiny" and "A Reluctant Princess" while both serial episodes, have the main components of each episode wrapped up before the credits.
Also, when considering the fact that the US Sailor Moon opening used parts of both the Classic and R openings, and footage from the episode, DiC never made any bones about this show being about a five girl band. Any moment where it seemed like the bad guys won was deliberately temporary.