Comments | gnatkip: "Who else gon' put rocks in your briefcase?"

gnatkip

"Who else gon' put rocks in your briefcase?"

Jun 07, 2007 23:32

Why did no one tell me about The Riches? I've also got my eye on Life on Mars and The Dresden Files, but haven't begun either of them yet. But really: why did no one tell me about The Riches? I'm a little shocked that my entire flist isn't all asquee with it. I've only seen the first three episodes, so don't spoil me please, but wow am I ( Read more... )

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thelastgoodname June 8 2007, 05:03:10 UTC

Consider this my squee. I love that show. It is amazing and awesome and amazing and Eddie Izzard and amazing. I am woman, hear me squee.

Also, I have no idea what's going on with Wayne's accent, but it always sounds wonderfully slippery, like he doesn't even know what he's supposed to sound like anymore.

gnatkip June 8 2007, 05:49:00 UTC

I know! Amazing amazing amazing! It probably won't take me long to devour the entire canon. When I first heard about it, and that Eddie Izzard was starring, I could not believe that fandom hadn't clued me in already. I'm wounded, fandom, wounded deeply.

gelasius June 8 2007, 06:31:43 UTC

I'd say Wayne's accent is ::koff:: Eddie's own Britishness, but I've come to appreciate its oddities. Also?

LOVE THIS SHOW in a quiet sort of way. I haven't really gone looking for the fandom at all, but I've been enjoying the episodes. I do really love the idea of Traveller culture, however fictionalized it is on the show, and how it slides so neatly into the ideas of Hunter Culture from SPN.

gnatkip June 8 2007, 13:39:22 UTC

I went looking yesterday, and found one fic comm and a couple general discussion comms. Heh, I'm spoiled; I want to just blaze in and have infrastructure and newsletters and themed comms already set up. I can't tell yet if this show is something I'm going to want to be actively fannish about yet, anyway.

Ah, that is a very good point about Traveller / Hunter cultures! There should be crossovers. Indeed.

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gnatkip June 8 2007, 13:46:14 UTC

Ha! Awesome. Minnie's accent is great; I really believe that she's Dahlia.

Did you?! I apologize. And I wonder what other delightful things my flist has been trying to show me, that just haven't registered with me in an "I need to see this RIGHT NOW" sort of way. ;)

dbassassin June 9 2007, 02:44:29 UTC

Isn't it awesome! It just started playing up here (the third ep was on this week).

Eddie's accent is a bit dodgy. But then, I think that Brits who try to do American accents always ending up sounding like Canadians. I think his American accent is pretty good, though, especially as he's layering them: the middle-class middle-American over top of the camper trash other voice.

gnatkip June 9 2007, 04:01:23 UTC

It is! Awesome! I know! And whatshername the neighbor lady? Nina? I'm smitten.

I do find his accent a little jarring, particularly because it's so different from the rest of the Travellers, but eh, oh well, everthing else about his performance is fantastic.

la_fono June 9 2007, 22:59:40 UTC

This looks fun! I haven't seen more than the promo ads for it though. I had just typed I'm not hugely familiar with American accents, but to me he just sounds like Eddie Izzard but with extra R, but I realised I couldn't remember what he actually sounds like usually, and had a search, and this is the first link I got, heh. Aw, I just watched a promo again and I noticed his accent fading out a couple of times... is it really noticable during the programme? Maybe I'm just looking for it too much ;)

I'm rooting for the Watsonian explanation over the Doylist, here.
Conan Doyle?

gnatkip June 10 2007, 01:36:46 UTC

Ha, what an appropriate clip! Clearly you have the search mojo workin' tonight.

Yeah, to me, the accent kinda throws me out of the story at times, because it's just... it's weird.

Yes, another phrase I learned from fandom, what burnt mah brawl. It refers to different ways of interpreting a text: internal motivation, from the POV of the characters (Watson) -- or external motivation, from the POV of the author (Doyle). (Or maybe that should be intra- or meta- ? Anyway.) I want it to be Watsonian, "this is the way they really sound, they really really do. I would not be surprised if that culture had some sort of specific accent, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'd never heard it, which might make it sound weird to me. But the way they're portraying it, all the Travellers of his generation have an average country twang except for him, who just sounds weirdAnd if you're planning to watch the show... To try to spare you that thing where something gets hyped as the best thing since sliced bread and then fails to live up to ( ... )