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Sarah Palin has a southern accent?

Major Charles Emerson Winchester the Third was a wealthy Bostonian with a Boston accent on one of the most successful TV shows of all time. I could site examples all day long that prove you are wrong, but that would be boring. :wave
 
pixletwin said:
Sarah Palin has a southern accent?

Major Charles Emerson Winchester the Third was a wealthy Bostonian with a Boston accent on one of the most successful TV shows of all time. I could site examples all day long that prove you are wrong, but that would be boring. :wave
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If anything, Palin has a Canadian accent, but like you said, we could go all day on this subject.
 
Palin actually has a upper midwestern accent which a lot of people from Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas have.

I'm not a huge TV show buff so I don't know too many characters, but I think one thing to note about TV in America is unless they're filming a very specific show like Friday Night Lights, I think they shy away from accents because America is so regionally diverse you don't want over half the country not relating to certain characters because of the accent. I don't think its some racial conspiracy or anything. Its just good business to have characters play a easy to understand accent. Also, most shows except for recent CSI, Boston Legal, and NYPD Blue have tried to be "Anytown, USA". Giving characters distinct Bostonian accents would mess that up. Personally I think most shows use the Colorado accent which means no apparent accent or dialect at all :lol.

Interesting conversation I guess, but not really controversial.
 
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pixletwin said:
Sarah Palin has a southern accent?
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I never said she did.

Major Charles Emerson Winchester the Third was a wealthy Bostonian with a Boston accent on one of the most successful TV shows of all time. I could site examples all day long that prove you are wrong, but that would be boring.
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Of course you can cherry pick here and there, as I acknowledged above. But those exceptions don't disprove the rule - indeed they stand out because they are exceptions. The vast majority of characters on TV speak with what is essentially a US RPP and just looking at MASH we see this rule played out.

ProgMatinee said:
one thing to note about TV in America is unless they're filming a very specific show like Friday Night Lights, I think they shy away from accents because America is so regionally diverse you don't want over half the country not relating to certain characters because of the accent.
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This is true, which makes it interesting to consider what's happening when accents are used. These usually (although not invariably) tend to be shorthand for class, villainy or humor rather than completely incidental. A lot of this is probably down to Hollywood speaking US RPP as well rather than any kind of conspiracy. But to pretend all accents are equally represented on US TV is silliness in the extreme.
 
barbelith said:
But to pretend all accents are equally represented on US TV is silliness in the extreme.
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They are pretty much equally represented in the sense that none of them are represented at all. Its TV and really nothing more. Thats why I get a little bent when shows otherwise innocent or entertainment fair tries to make a statement at all. Most TV isn't supposed to be a Ken Burns or Michael Moore analysis of society.

Also, no person is ever represented on tv unless its an autobiography and even then you can't represent 70 years of life in tv show time. Every person is equally diverse from everyone else.

Even black married with 5 children doctors and so on are not at all represented by Cliff Huxtable or any other fictional person. So supposing there was a rich Bostonian on TV or whatever, does that really mean anything at all to society? No.
 
pixletwin said:
Time to get BBCA Kabuki. :lecture
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I know... :monkey4

I'm looking into my options right now. BBCA HD isn't available with my current provider nor is it available on U-Verse (which may or may not be available to me). :banghead

I will just calm myself and look back into later this year. I have time, I guess.
 
I knew this was happening but I think this is further proof that Syfy is moving away from REAL science fiction/fantasy. At least there won't be a long gap between US and UK airings AND the premier airings won't be cut for time.
 
Beware. Possible Spoilers about the first episode of Series 5 (or Series 1) :rolleyes:

dalekmofo said:
I've been sitting on some info for a while and posted some of it but I'm fairly drunk tonight so without giving too much away here's what I know of the (possible) first episode of Series Five...
1. It follows on directly from the previous episode (yes, I know RTD confirmed this). The first shot of the Doctor is Matt Smith climbing out of the TARDIS soaking wet (we see him regenerate in the last episode). The interior appears to have become some sort of pit with all the rooms falling into each other. The reason he's soaking wet is he's apparently fallen in the swimming pool...
2. A young Amy is terrified of something alien in her house coming through cracks in the walls. She thinks the Doctor has come to help her after the TARDIS lands in her garden due to it looking like a Police Box. Instead she helps him discover about his new self. He knows EXACTLY who he is and that he's regenerated with the usual "I am the Doctor!" type dialogue, so I'm not sure about all these rumours saying that the Tenth Doctor's memories are completely wiped...
3. There is regenerative trauma. The new Doctor has strange food cravings. There is similar dialogue to the Tenth Doctor's "New teeth. That's weird".
4. It doesn't feature the Sea Devils. The enemy is something completely new. The Doctor and Amy bond while defeating it.
5. The TARDIS is in danger of burning up due to cataclysmic damage from the finale. The Doctor thinks this will be fixed with a short trip into the future to stabilise the engines. But from Amy's point of view he doesn't return until around fifteen years later with a newly regenerated TARDIS...
6. It's set in Scotland.
Chew on those titbits. And spit them out if you wish.
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No comments eh? Well here is another spoiler. It is being deleted from Who-Centric forums at the behest of the Beeb... so I take that to mean its true:

This was just posted on the Digital Spy forums. Obviously take with a pinch of salt but it does sound believable and the person who saw the set has said he managed to get some photos which will clinch things if they do appear. Scooty seems to think it is a possibility!

The set is on 2 levels, joined by a spiral staircase, but is not as big as I'd thought. It's apparently finished though sections of it seem to be missing at present. We saw the console room, a lab area, a sort of sitting room area, a fairly long section of corridor leading nowhere and numerous other little nooks and crannies. The console room reminds me of a new and shiny version of the old one, except the roundels are very simple and basic looking, simply spherical dents in the walls.

These new style roundels are featured throughout the whole set, though not on every wall. Back to the console room - mainly golds and silvers and the coral theme has been replaced with a smooth marble like finish. Also the room is not circular, it's a kind of hexagon-joined-to-a-square shape, the hexagon bit containing the console, which to me looked like the same console they've used throughout the series except with new buttons and blinky lights, though apparently it's entirely new. Your beloved hatstand was still there but no sign of the interior doors, also there was no ceiling to the set - could be that these bits are meant to be there but were missing from the set for some reason I suppose.

Apparently the whole set has been designed in a modular way, so things can be moved and double as other parts of the ship. The roundels are different colours in each area, gold for the console room, silver/grey/blue in the lab, brown in the sitting room. The roundels can be removed/swapped out or even turned around completely to be convex rather than concave, in order to become a different area.
 
pixletwin said:
No comments eh? Well here is another spoiler. It is being deleted from Who-Centric forums at the behest of the Beeb... so I take that to mean its true:

This was just posted on the Digital Spy forums. Obviously take with a pinch of salt but it does sound believable and the person who saw the set has said he managed to get some photos which will clinch things if they do appear. Scooty seems to think it is a possibility!

The set is on 2 levels, joined by a spiral staircase, but is not as big as I'd thought. It's apparently finished though sections of it seem to be missing at present. We saw the console room, a lab area, a sort of sitting room area, a fairly long section of corridor leading nowhere and numerous other little nooks and crannies. The console room reminds me of a new and shiny version of the old one, except the roundels are very simple and basic looking, simply spherical dents in the walls.

These new style roundels are featured throughout the whole set, though not on every wall. Back to the console room - mainly golds and silvers and the coral theme has been replaced with a smooth marble like finish. Also the room is not circular, it's a kind of hexagon-joined-to-a-square shape, the hexagon bit containing the console, which to me looked like the same console they've used throughout the series except with new buttons and blinky lights, though apparently it's entirely new. Your beloved hatstand was still there but no sign of the interior doors, also there was no ceiling to the set - could be that these bits are meant to be there but were missing from the set for some reason I suppose.

Apparently the whole set has been designed in a modular way, so things can be moved and double as other parts of the ship. The roundels are different colours in each area, gold for the console room, silver/grey/blue in the lab, brown in the sitting room. The roundels can be removed/swapped out or even turned around completely to be convex rather than concave, in order to become a different area.
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The new set sounds promising so I'll be intrested to see if any pics surface to confirm that report.
 
just got around to watching Planet of the Dead...wow, was that intended for kids or what!?!

It wasn't a horrible episode, but it wasn't at all what I expected considering the title.
 
Pix...you swine...you tempt me too much.

I'd been doing really well at keeping away from spoilers but I thought - go on, just this one.

Now I'm jonesing for more...LOL
 

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