I love Mal, but it took me a long time to get used to the accents. In fact, if it hadn't been a Joss vehicle, I would have abandoned it an hour in.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Vortex - Feb 21, 2007 6:14:07 am PST #4255 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Tamara - Feb 21, 2007 7:16:11 am PST #4256 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
There were accents? I barely noticed them at all.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 21, 2007 8:15:35 am PST #4257 of 10001
"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
The accents didn't seem that prominent to me, but then again I'm actually living in a place where lots of folks have country accents.
amych - Feb 21, 2007 8:29:45 am PST #4258 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Matt is me -- the Chinese sounded very fake to me, but the backwoods just sounded like part of the landscape.
Kevin - Feb 21, 2007 9:15:20 am PST #4259 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I have to admit, I barely noticed them either.
Allyson - Feb 21, 2007 9:25:50 am PST #4260 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
All that gorram and reckon and crap made me want to tear my own head off. Accents didn't bother me.
Jessica - Feb 21, 2007 9:30:12 am PST #4261 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
All that gorram and reckon and crap made me want to tear my own head off. Accents didn't bother me.
Same here.
That said, I don't think the roles NF has played have anything to do with my dislike of him as an actor -- there's just something about him I don't enjoy watching.
Vortex - Feb 21, 2007 9:31:29 am PST #4262 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
All that gorram and reckon and crap made me want to tear my own head off. Accents didn't bother me.
Maybe no so much accents as speech cadence.
DavidS - Feb 21, 2007 9:32:17 am PST #4263 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I came to really like the western language over the course of the show, never minded the Chinese (and liked it when Wash was spitting it out angrily) and loved Nathan as Mal.
For me, the western talk was just as stylized as the Buffy Val-speak slanginess and wordplay. It was its own little hermetically sealed word world, but I liked that.
Kevin - Feb 21, 2007 9:46:00 am PST #4264 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Buffy speak often wasn't repeated episode to episode, though, whereas Firefly vocab was. The Firefly thing was obviously a deliberate play on language, to try to invent something progressive and believable, and in many ways I thought it worked -- it annoys me that in nearly all television and movie science fiction, the galaxy 132904290 billion years in the future is shown speaking current generic American.
The fact a lot of Firefly fan fic authors feel the need to use the word gorramn every 4 words, though, does grate.