...I know I'm being churlish. There are undoubtedly lots of appallingly cringe-inducing Brit attempts at American accents too.
Yes. ;)
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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P.M. Marc - Nov 05, 2006 11:52:48 pm PST #2739 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
askye - Nov 06, 2006 3:40:22 am PST #2740 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
I've also seen where SGA fans thought that David Nykl (Radek) was faking his accent.
brenda m - Nov 06, 2006 3:43:19 am PST #2741 of 10434
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Isn't he Canadian too?
askye - Nov 06, 2006 3:59:29 am PST #2742 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 06, 2006 4:06:31 am PST #2743 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Born in Prague, raised in Canada from early childhood.
x-post with askye
esse - Nov 06, 2006 7:07:22 am PST #2744 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
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.
Consuela - Nov 06, 2006 7:08:36 pm PST #2745 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Americans on Spooks almost uniformly have terrible accents. In addition to being venal and evil.
brenda m - Nov 06, 2006 7:13:39 pm PST #2746 of 10434
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh god, yes.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2006 10:02:38 pm PST #2747 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the same weird accent almost every time. Weird and flat. But sometimes said "Americans" are US expats.
Fay - Nov 06, 2006 10:34:58 pm PST #2748 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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)
OMG, really? I'm totally prepared to absolutely embrace this reading, although clearly I've entirely misread backstory. Which episodes are you thinking of, with the flashbacks that have thick Eastern European accents? Because I'd not realised that the convent was in Prague, or that there was, well ANY Eastern Europe link. Give me episodes?