Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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Huh. I was under the impression she was supposed to be going for a southern belle accent, too.
Which would explain why it sounded like the World's Crappiest British Accent.
Actually, the two accents are very close. It only takes the tiniest shift in how you sound the words to switch between the two, so if her southern belle accent (and I'm certain it was supposed to be southern) was just a little off, then it could have been very easy to confuse with a crap Brit sound.
I think she was going for Southern Belle as well, but it was still horrible.
She was looking at pictures of 18th century U.K. ballgowns from a Watcher's diary that concerned Angel's early years as a vampire, and referred to herself as a noblewoman once transformed. Somehow I doubt they were going for a Scarlett O'Hara effect, though they may have unintentionally ended up with one.
Wasn't she looking at Darla? So really she was a prostitute in the "New World"?
I don't think they specified that the gown drawing was of Darla. But my, wouldn't that have made for a fun episode if they'd had SMG turn into Julie Benz as the 18th century version of her character?
She was definitely going for British, as per Matt's reasoning, and failing. The girl she's looking at is of Angel's time-period, but not Darla.
I never thought she was going for British. I thought she was just going for generic old fashioned. Buffy didn't care that the girl in the sketch was British, or whatever, she cared about the frou-frou.
I'm not sure what nationality Halloween!Buffy was supposed to be, but I do know that SMG can't do a British accent to save her life. See Gone (that's the blinvisible ep right?) wherein she tries to mock/imitate Spike with the "bloody birds of a feather" line. They should have just cut it - it's embarassing.
I have too much free time on my hands today, apparently ...
She was looking at pictures of 18th century U.K. ballgowns from a Watcher's diary that concerned Angel's early years as a vampire,
True, but the costume she put on wasn't identified as a British noblewoman's (or any particular nationality), and it was the costume she was chanelling, not the sketch.
and referred to herself as a noblewoman once transformed.
From a quick read through of a transcript I get that, during her transformation, she referred to herself as a proper lady, and Willow referred to her as an 18th century girl, neither one specifying nationality.
I think it would've made perfect sense that she morph into a British noblewoman, but I'm guessing maybe the British accent wasn't going to happen for SMG, so they went, as Cindy says, for generic old fashioned helpless girl (well, to be accurate, Cindy didn't add on helpless girl like I did). To my ear, her accent sounded closest to American southern.
It sounded to me like they were trying more for the phrasing/grammatical structure of speech, or what Buffy in the 20th century thought was 18th century, but with no particular accent.