Re: Life on Mars

barbara fister wrote:
David Johnston wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:32:00 -0800, Lynn Allen <lynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2009-01-08 14:54:39 -0800, David Johnston <david@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Amusingly, he came in at the top of bad fake American accents in a
British poll.
Excuse me? Native speakers of American tell you he's got a good accent, and we're supposed to believe that British viewers somehow have a better evaluation? Sorry, no.

That's what's amusing.

I saw the show--as a card carrying-USian, it was a dreadfully bad American accent. What were they thinking? (actually ... that goes for the whole show. I think the occasional archaic lanuage such as "smite" was meant to be clever, but the actors looked unconvinced.)

barfly

Sometimes when I watch a television show, I am overcome with admiration for the actors who somehow are able to utter the most incredible lines without succumbing to the gales of laughter that the lines cause me to fall into. Trailers or promos for shows and movies are especially hysterically funny, yet these consummate actors manage to deliver the lines seriously.
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