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And is it also a coincidence that they're the names of the two male leads on Earth: Final Conflict? I think not.
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Well, not in that case, because one was a replacement for the other. Or something. I dunno.
I suspect that in BtVS's case it was more: "Spike's English, so we'll call him either Charles or William", and then "Angel's Irish, so we'll call him either Liam or Guinness".
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Do they explain why Angel manages to shake off an accent after several hundred years of life but Spike cant?
That always bothered me about the Highlander stuff as well- the characters seem to stagnate and remain the same as they were when they first become immortal.
Spike and Angel's conversions to a good guy aside, that is. Mabye it's just that sweet slayer lovin' that does it.
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Highlander was a GREAT premise that was never fully developed as it should have been. The first movie was pretty good, but everything after that really needed about ten more rewrites and Endgame was a joke of inconsistency. As was H2, oh and H3... well ALL OF IT. I always considered Endgame to be a Fanboy offering.
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Spike's a good hundred years younger than Angel, and while Angel spent most of Spike's lifetime living in America, Spike was wandering around Europe. So, I mean, Angel was surrounded by American accents while Spike wasn't.
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America has no accents: some of us just speak strangely.
Go to rural Maine sometime- you'll swear it's not english they're speaking.
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It also applies to people who don't live for several hundred years. You ever heard Jane Leaves (Daphne from Frasier)? Her accent is a weird mixture of American, London, and a hint of Mancunian. Patrick Stewart on the other hand still sounds as RSC as ever.
Or my own mates, one of whom lived in Newcastle until he was 7, and still has a Geordi accent 15 years later, while another moved from Liverpool to Wales when he was 8 and now sounds Welsh, if anything.
I am stopping with the examples now.
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And just what do you sound like, eh?
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I'm at a loss to describe his accent, really. In terms that you'd be able to relate to. We lack a common frame of erefence, as it were. Making Liam's accent akin to death, from a Spockish perspective. Oh, I'm bored. Stuff this, I'm going home.
Tom and Di are foreign types who have heard me talk, so you could ask them. (About Lee's too. Not Tom there though, for he was scared of him.)
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Estuary, he means. Not that I'm one to talk with my spoonerisation of 'reference,' however. But I'm at a loss to give Cartman an example of what Estuary English sounds like.
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Blair apparently speaks Estuary English. He was told off by the "overly pronounced Engish Society" for saying "Britain" with glutteral stops instead of hard "t"s.
So, er, imagine Blair and or Lee, but a bit less posh. Maybe.
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Is Estuary English the same as Liverpudlian English (Liverpool being located in Mersey estuary (this I know from having been there (during a wild and adventurous high-school road trip through Britain)) and all), only less, erh, plebeian? Because I don't think my mind will accept Liam sounding like Blair. Ever.
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quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Because I don't think my mind will accept Liam sounding like Blair. Ever.
But it will accept me sounding like Dave Lister?
Howsabout crossing Giles with Spike? FORCEFUL DEFLECTION BACK ON TOPIC!
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