Slings & Arrows

[eilonwy]

I have just finished watching all 3 seasons of Slings & Arrows (although generally speaking, 6 episodes for 3 seasons barely equals one season...) and I have three things to say

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[magelette]

Yes to the "sow-rry" thing. I watch too many Canadian shows on HGTV, and there's that whole Toronto's now 1.5 hours away thing.

Though the Canadian chick who harassed me at the border two weeks ago didn't say "sow-rry" or "sorry." Bitch.

[eilonwy]

You were harassed? About what?

[eilonwy]

Season 3 isn't my favorite (although it *is* really good.) I love the stage manager, she's awesome, as is Anna. It took 'til the second or third episode 'til I was sold, but then I was completely hooked. I love Geoffrey most, but Ellen quickly grew on me. I kind of want to watch the whole thing again now from the beginning, but will have to wait 'til I can afford to buy it. :) It was on sale on Amazon for really cheap relatively recently, but alas, no longer. Gonna have to keep an eye out. :)

[eilonwy]

East Hastings!!

[caffienekitty]

As a Canadian, I can tell you 'sorry' varies by region, and we don't hear it ourselves. It's usually 'sew-ry' more than 'sow-ry' unless you're in Alberta or Toronto. To us, most Americans who say 'sorry' sound like they are saying 'sah-ree' or naming an item of clothing (sari), but we rarely mention it. ;-)

sah-ree! :D

[eilonwy]

::giggle:: Fair enough. We *do* tend to say sah-ree/"sari", with more of an "ahh" sound the farther South you go. :) (Regional accents in general intrigue me, possibly because I grew up PA Dutch. I generally don't sound it, thanks to school all over, but the further you go back in my family, the more German/PADutch people sound sound.) It's just that the character Ellen said "sorry" so often, and the "o" was such a long one, and then I noticed that the other characters said it, too, although not as obviously, and had to ask. It grew on me.

Re: sah-ree! :D

[caffienekitty]

No problem. It was interesting that you brought this up, because I'd just watched a documentary on Canadia speech patterns, spelling and accents a few nights ago. I think it was called 'Talking Canadian' and was rather cute. Among many other things it discussed the pronounciation of 'sorry'. :-)

[eilonwy]

Mike and I thought the drinking game for this show would be to take a drink every time they say "Sow-rry".
Doood, there are episodes where you'd be druuuuunk. Ellen has at least one episode (season 2? before Geoffrey moves into the storage room, I think) where she is apologizing profusely every time you see her.

I love Darren Nichols!!!
I love his wardrobe! :D

Could I have a Geoffrey of my very own, plzkthx? I wouldn't mind if he were chatting with Oliver. Hee.

[eilonwy]

Yeah, I'd be good with slightly less crazy. That's probably quite wise. But "wildly smart and a daring artist"? Yes yes yes.

This show made me want to see their productions so badly.
Me too. And I don't even like Macbeth. (I think it reads well but stages like crap, in that I've seen several productions, and several films, and hated them all.) And I love that every time something went "wrong" it meant scaling back, focusing on the text and the actors and the characters, and then it was brilliant and adored. (Ahh, if only real theatre worked that way as far as audiences went. Wouldn't it be nice to end up with Richard's "surplus"?)