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[muji]

NOMINATIONS WILL STAY OPEN UNTIL TOMORROW MIDDAY EST.

Anyone else had reality screw with the fiction in their head lately?

Example:

My boyfriend is in love with the Dresden Files, and recently Netflix-ed (yes it's a verb) the tv series, and lent them to me as well. While watching 'Inside the Dresden Files' I realize that Paul Blackthorne (Harry Dresden) has got this adorable British accent, while Terrence Mann (Bob, here portrayed as human-form and v. v. British sounding) is from Kentucky.

My mom goes, "Oh yeah, there's a lot of Manns in Kentucky," which, when you're listening to that sentence and not reading it, makes you twitch amusingly.

And then I got chastised for not assuming a last name like Blackthorne was British. *chuckles*

Anyone else?

Also while I am thinking about it: I want to know who has the biggest plothole in their canon! And here I am talking sustained plotholes, not ones that get resolved in later canon *eyes Bootstrap Bill*.

Here's my nomination: If Ned brings dead things back to life, even the fruit he bakes into his pies, how does he eat?

All nominations will be organized into a later poll and posted in the back room to vote upon. :D!!! Please put NOMINATION in the subject line so I can find it. Maybe I'll even make a prize!

ETA: Since it is rapidly occuring to me that there are some canons with more holes than plots, pick your favorite, and/or the one most likely to go "A SMALL CHILD IN AN EYEPATCH WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT ONE AND TO FIX IT WOULD HAVE COST YOU NOTHING, YOU DORKS."

Does this help at all? *shrug* I dunno. Pick your favorite!

Comments

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful to contribute; I'm terrible at finding plotholes, although since I play a Smallville pup (theoretically *cough*) it's probably a safe bet that I could win this if I really tried. :D

What I actually want to say here is: why is it that actors are always better-sounding when they're faking accents not their own? I give you James Marsters, Hugh Laurie, and Sendhil Ramamurthy for examples. Hell, I'll throw in Masi Oka while I'm at it. It makes no sense.

[muji]

I am totally with you on Mohinder. OMG I heard an interview of him and I wept.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

It was so sad. Dear Lord. The Indian accent he fakes in the first few episodes is best; the sort of British voicefuckery he travels through afterwards is adequate, but my oh my those first few episodes are made of vocal win. And then you listen to him in interviews and he's all Amurrican. D:

[muji]

I will say this in defense of American accents: the Southern gentry accent. Mmmmyummy.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I will say this in defense of American accents: Gregory motherfucking House. God that's hot.

Also, y'know, I'm Canadian so where do I get off insulting my own continent? XD

[muji]

xD Touché.

I actually think House's accent isn't American so much as alcoholic. *shrug* Still nice though.

[agonistes]

I OBJECT!

Which "Southern gentry" accent? *grinning* Because while I will totally accept that there are Southern accents that are "better" than others when it comes to "being genteel" or similar (at least, that's how my grandmother would have put it) --

There are still totally regional variances within the South. This list seems to conflate accent and dialect to a degree, but the general point's helpful -- the closer to the coast you are, the more gentrified your accent is. (Me, I am all up in there with the South Midland types. *is cheerfully aware of this*) Still, though -- there's a difference between somebody from Virginia and somebody from Coastal Georgia, and it's an audible one.

...god, why am I starting off Friday playing Henry Higgins? Just, like, stomp on me and tell me to stfu. :D *uses most appropriate icon ever!!*

[muji]

Oh I am completely aware.

(For reference, my principal experience is TN/KY/OK.)

My general preference, since we're being specific, is Georgia.

[muji]

FYI, I wanted to be Henry Higgins.

I think I still wanna. Minus the slippers and pipe.

[silveraspen]

... I hate you.

*has just spent last fifteen minutes trying to classify own accent, which is harder than you might think*

[mogget_cat]

Definitely a difference in within-state regions, in the South. *is Arkansan, and can tell southern Arkansan from northern Arkansan any day*

And yes, there is sooo much difference between Virginyeh and Jawjah. We occasionally discuss regional Southern accents at lunch, and typically all agree that, even though it's only a state over, none of us can understand the accent of extremely southern Mississippi, and none of us can find the southern accent of Florida, except for the panhandle. My roommate is from eastern Texas, and I'm from southern Arkansas, and her accent seems ridiculously country to me.

My fave southern accent, though, is my dad's. Articulate, but with a comfortable ease to the words. Educated southern Arkansan. Mmm.

-Saph

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure we have plotholes so much as we just have plots that make no sense whatsoever. That and plots aren't usually sustained.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Our plots are, in fact, made of hole.

:D?

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

I think we have a winnar!

[lienne.livejournal.com]

WINNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

A+++++++++++

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

Plots that make no sense whatsoever?

Never.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Smallville is totally a bastion of logic, rite?

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

Like crying tears of healing that go and suck in the injury?

Ttly.

[muji]

PHOENIX TEARS.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. They only had to retcon Chloe's background three times to make that work. Hardly an inconvenience at all!

[aberration]

Mohinder's now British-y accent is good - his initial Indian accent was Ridiculous. I remember going back and watching the beginning of season 1 when I had a professor with that sort of accent and facepalming a lot (and on top of it, of course, he had to be going on about the Pinnacles Of Evolution and 'We only use a tenth of our brain power!' - d'oh).

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it sounded like a real Indian accent, 'cause I have no idea what those are supposed to sound like. I'm saying it sounded pretty. Mohinder might not know science if it bit him on the ass, but boy howdy does he ever have a nice voice.

'course, you could also be commenting on the aesthetics, in which case I'm an idiot. And an idiot with funky taste in accents at that. :D

[aberration]

Yeah, I meant in terms of how authentic it sounded - it being pretty's up to you. I didn't notice it at all the first time, honestly, but the second time there was probably a bad combination of me having an Indian professor and taking a course on human evolution that made it all spring out as 'THAT'S WRONG! THAT'S WRONG!'

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Mohinder: total idiot, but very yummy. XD I believe we are in agreement, then.