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hawkwing_lbOh, Americans.
I am watching episode four of Undercovers, a mildly entertaining spy show. This episode happens to be set in Dublin. And aside from the accents - which, as usual, for Americans doing Dublin seem to be mostly stuck with country (not that anyone not used to it can interpret some types of Dub) - the guns. Oh, my. Armed gardaí, armed prison service officers... (I have been inside Mountjoy. It was a thing my secondary school did, to intimidate sixteen-year-olds into a respect for Law Und Ordnung. It still looks very much like a nineteenth-century prison - ie, not like that - but, you know. Television.) Guns, guns, guns.
And we are only five minutes in. What is it with the American obsession with lethal force?
(And. Er. Easiest prison break ever? Strikes one as excessively implausible. Research, people! Versimilitude!)
ETA: Oh, the accents. This is actively painful. If they're working for the Dept. of Justice, they may as well have kept their American accents. God knows it's not as though they're implausibly rare hereabouts.
(I do not like seeing what I know well misrepresented. Especially since television is the closest many USians will ever get to foreign travel. But, well. Television, god help us. And television pubs seem to be so much more accepting than the ones I visit, alas.)
(And at last, in the pub, an authentic accent. The owner. I may not survive the shock.)
I am watching episode four of Undercovers, a mildly entertaining spy show. This episode happens to be set in Dublin. And aside from the accents - which, as usual, for Americans doing Dublin seem to be mostly stuck with country (not that anyone not used to it can interpret some types of Dub) - the guns. Oh, my. Armed gardaí, armed prison service officers... (I have been inside Mountjoy. It was a thing my secondary school did, to intimidate sixteen-year-olds into a respect for Law Und Ordnung. It still looks very much like a nineteenth-century prison - ie, not like that - but, you know. Television.) Guns, guns, guns.
And we are only five minutes in. What is it with the American obsession with lethal force?
(And. Er. Easiest prison break ever? Strikes one as excessively implausible. Research, people! Versimilitude!)
ETA: Oh, the accents. This is actively painful. If they're working for the Dept. of Justice, they may as well have kept their American accents. God knows it's not as though they're implausibly rare hereabouts.
(I do not like seeing what I know well misrepresented. Especially since television is the closest many USians will ever get to foreign travel. But, well. Television, god help us. And television pubs seem to be so much more accepting than the ones I visit, alas.)
(And at last, in the pub, an authentic accent. The owner. I may not survive the shock.)
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Date: 2011-02-21 01:30 am (UTC)US TV gets US accents wrong so often it is sad-making. New Orleans is not Appalachia is not Atlanta. But US TV frequently settles for accents done in very broad strokes which please no one. Except the director, I presume.
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Date: 2011-02-21 10:09 am (UTC)(But oh, god. My neighbours do not sound like that - though considering my neighbours include a Polish couple, a woman from Liverpool, several people originally from sub-Saharan Africa, a bloke from Lithuania and some folks from Norn Iron, as well as the longtime locals, and with few exceptions all the accents on television seem some mangling of something I've never heard spoke, perhaps this is to be expected.)
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Date: 2011-02-21 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-22 12:31 pm (UTC)