'Get It Done'
This thread is part of an experiment to discern the Buffistas' future interest in television discussion. It will remain open until June 1st, 2007, upon which date there will be spirited debate regarding the infinite possibilities for our board's development. This thread is for non-fiction tv, including but not limited to documentaries and reality shows. [NAFDA]
So, on Top Model, I was thinking the whole accent thing was jacktarded, but then I remembered that past girls had to do commercials in other languages, so I guess they were trying to do an equivalent in an English-speaking country.
No, still jacktarded.
They made them speak with an faux-Australian accent, right?
Why not make them speak Spanish? Makes sense in the USA.
They made them speak with an faux-Australian accent, right?
Yes. They were in Australia at the time, which is something, but still.
If yours have David Attenborough, they're the original BBC version. (Discovery rewrote the narration and replaced him with Sigourney Weaver.)
Like, how much rewritten? Because the Weaver narration is STUPID. Like the one with the painted dogs that are chasing the gazelle (or one of the other fleetfooted deer relatives being hunted in that episode...there were a lot) where the fact that one gazelle gets eaten instead of another gazelle is termed "a miracle." And how every single creature pretty much is on the brink of death ALL THE TIME.
Also w.r.t reality: I am not watching Survivor this season because I didn't like anyone but maybe Earl and Yau Man after about four episodes in (maybe I should start watching again?); I am watching AI but beginning to get disenchanted with the predictability of the contest at this point.
so far dialidol.com was right on the mark.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!
ANTM: Okay, Jael was kind of weirdly endearing there in the end, but I am glad she's gone.
Also, the Australian accent thing was ABSURD. Seems to me that if I went to France to interview people and tried to speak in English with a French accent, it would seem insulting, wouldn't it? Not everyone is Meryl Streep. And I don't know about other countries, but there's nothing Americans love more than foreign accents.
If I were to go to France and try to speak French, though, that would be more polite, I think, because if you speak a language well, you get the intonations and inflections that form the accent. This was just weird.
Also also? I'm really tired of Tyra's extensions. I wonder what her real hair looks like at this point.
And how every single creature pretty much is on the brink of death ALL THE TIME.
There's a film you can watch in the little museum at the La Brea Tar Pits that turns one horse getting caught in tar into a giant cascade of death, essentially implying that there are so many fossils in the tar because ANIMALS ARE DUMB.
Okay, maybe not directly related, but it's what your post made me think of, bon.
Tyra has no real hair.
On the Pussycat Doll front, I'm so glad they got rid of that bitchy Melissa whichever! I know Robin loooooves Chelsea, but eventually the dancing thing has to catch up to her, no? I'm rooting for Asia, I think.
Tyra has no real hair.
She's bald, baby!