Dear David Hoselton (writer of House eppy 4.4)...
...if I ever meet you, I am gonna thwap you over the head with a Russian dictionary, and then give you another mighty thunk with a history of Orthodox Christianity, or Uniate Church, if you prefer. I haven't heard such horrible Eastern European accents in a good long while, but it's not your fault - Azura Skye and the actress who played her mom made me scream so loudly my boyfriend almost had to put a hand over my mouth. I'm a 24-year-old half-Ukrainian woman, and I can tell you, it's physically painful for me to hear what was coming out of their mouth. I tried to sound like Irene (who would be Irina like my grandmother if Mr. Hoselton could google) and wound up sounding like a male Russian spy from a bad movie.
It's 2007, for crying out loud. Are there no Russian speakers in Hollywood? Can't someone spend a couple of bucks on a dialect coach? Can't someone at least google how to say "I love you" in Russian? Whatever her mother said sounds like something a randomizer puked up, and nothing like "I love you" - I've listened to it a couple of times and it vaguely sounds like "throw up" to me... And just to finish me off, they had the characters apparently speaking Russian while the mom had a rosary. If they're speaking Russian, there's no way her mom should have a rosary. A Russian speaker is most likely NOT a Uniate (Ukranian Catholic). And don't even get me started on the stereotypical portrayal of Ukrainians on TV... *weeps for her family's poor country, which SO didn't need to be vomited on by stereotypes big enough to kill a horse*
It's 2007, for crying out loud. Are there no Russian speakers in Hollywood? Can't someone spend a couple of bucks on a dialect coach? Can't someone at least google how to say "I love you" in Russian? Whatever her mother said sounds like something a randomizer puked up, and nothing like "I love you" - I've listened to it a couple of times and it vaguely sounds like "throw up" to me... And just to finish me off, they had the characters apparently speaking Russian while the mom had a rosary. If they're speaking Russian, there's no way her mom should have a rosary. A Russian speaker is most likely NOT a Uniate (Ukranian Catholic). And don't even get me started on the stereotypical portrayal of Ukrainians on TV... *weeps for her family's poor country, which SO didn't need to be vomited on by stereotypes big enough to kill a horse*