ProgMatinee
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good grief dw fans are almost as bad as sw fans...accents?
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There are a lot class issues tied in with accents in Britain. You would be surprised... I guess the American equivalent would be "street cred".
Its also being reported that End of Time is clocking in at 75 minutes in length.
At least 35 minutes of that will be devoted to an overly sentimental and drawn out regeneration where every single character from Nu-Who including all the nameless background extras will form a large procession so they can each say their farewells to 10 in RTD's last great bid to brainwash people into thinking that Tennant was the most important Doctor ever.
He was. Wasn't he?
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Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
He was! (is!) :maul
I'm not too happy about this BBC America business.
1) I don't get it.
2) If I did subscribe to the higher tier that has it, it would not be in HD (though that might change by air-date)
Until season 5 starts up, I'm going to be sticking to the, uh, "special channels"
I'm not too happy about this BBC America business.
1) I don't get it.
2) If I did subscribe to the higher tier that has it, it would not be in HD (though that might change by air-date)
Until season 5 starts up, I'm going to be sticking to the, uh, "special channels"
BBCA does broadcast in HD now. Planet of the Dead was broadcast in HD last Sunday.
So you've never heard someone's voice and thought it was fingernails on chalkboard irritating?
That's how Tennant sounds to me. It has nothing to do with class.
Darth Caedus
Formerly Congerking
I could go SO many places with that comment.....
Memnoch
Lt. Vulture
ProgMatinee
circlesendwheretheybegin
i think anything and everything related to the new show grates you, so your opinion about anything related to the new show is to be taken with a whole shaker full of salt.
i think anything and everything related to the new show grates you, so your opinion about anything related to the new show is to be taken with a whole shaker full of salt.
Despite the fact that numerous times I've stated I ENJOYED the first series and much of the second
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Kabukiman
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Memnoch
Lt. Vulture
Yeah, but my cable provider doesn't offer BBCA in HD yet.
So call em up and complain! Id do that.. but I dont have HD service
And in the United States. When was the last time you heard anything but (what is effectively) an RP accent on television? Southern accents "sound" stupid, Palin was relentlessly mocked for her accent etc.
You have got to be kidding me right? There are so many different accents on American TV I couldn't even begin to start recounting them.. and its off topic anyhoo...
ProgMatinee
circlesendwheretheybegin
just realized I missed planet of the dead. will it be reshown on BBCAm?
Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
Probably at some point. It's out on DVD and Blu-Ray too, so you can hit it on Netflix or buy it or whatever too.
There really aren't - in fact many actors undergo speech therapy to strip out their regional accent and adopt the "generic" TV accent. This is closely tied to class; accented characters are virtually always used to emphasize class (e.g. you rarely see an intellectual character with a Southern accent or a wealthy character with a Boston accent). Few characters on TV sound like Sarah Palin.
There are rare exceptions like Ainsley Hayes but on the whole good luck finding many characters on US TV whose accents are incidental and not a deliberate character trait.
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