Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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I always thought she was from Romania
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What a fascinating take! I'm tempted to embrace it (although...still doesn't sound like a Romanian accent either...) But generally when they have flashbacks to Romania, they have the locals speaking in Romanian, surely?
...I know I'm being churlish. There are undoubtedly lots of appallingly cringe-inducing Brit attempts at American accents too.
Yes. ;)
I've also seen where SGA fans thought that David Nykl (Radek) was faking his accent.
Isn't he Canadian too?
He's Czech, he was born in Prague and his parents moved their family to Canada when he was toddler. But then he went back to Prague as an adult and worked there.
Born in Prague, raised in Canada from early childhood.
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What a fascinating take! I'm tempted to embrace it (although...still doesn't sound like a Romanian accent either...) But generally when they have flashbacks to Romania, they have the locals speaking in Romanian, surely?
Well, her "people" in the flashbacks have fairly thick (for the show) Romanian/Eastern European/Possibly Romany accents. So I guess I retcon it as, just like Spike changed his accent, hers mutated the more she was with English-speakers. I assumed, since flashbacks about her life, after her death, take place in Prague (after she was killed at the convent there) that she had extended family there. So it wasn't a jump for me to think she was Romanian, whose immediate family had migrated to London. Or something. I don't know, it's all very confusing and handwavy.
As a side note, I pulled a chart on a kid named Joe Flanigan last week. It was a double-take moment.
The Americans on Spooks almost uniformly have terrible accents. In addition to being venal and evil.
Oh god, yes.
It's the same weird accent almost every time. Weird and flat. But sometimes said "Americans" are US expats.