Born in Prague, raised in Canada from early childhood.
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River ,'War Stories'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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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
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?
dcp - Nov 06, 2006 11:23:19 pm PST #2749 of 10434
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I don't think it holds up, sorry.
Prague refs: [link]
Angelus & Drusilla arc: [link]
Convent ref: [link]
Topic!Cindy - Nov 07, 2006 12:33:20 am PST #2750 of 10434
What is even happening?
Well, her "people" in the flashbacks have fairly thick (for the show) Romanian/Eastern European/Possibly Romany accents.Which people are these, SA?
I assumed, since flashbacks about her life, after her death, take place in Prague (after she was killed at the convent there)I don't think they do. I think she's supposed to be in England. We never saw the Prague stuff, but she was there, with Spike, after she was a vampire. I'm pretty sure she and Spike were both sired in England.
erikaj - Nov 07, 2006 8:09:49 am PST #2751 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, and we're always loud. Do Ukians think we're loud? Not that I would completely blame y'all.
Hil R. - Nov 07, 2006 8:18:30 am PST #2752 of 10434
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There are undoubtedly lots of appallingly cringe-inducing Brit attempts at American accents too.
Approximately half the cast of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. (I watched it again, for some reason, this past weekend. I don't know why I do that to myself.)