Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : \ Date : Fri Oct 14 2005 07:57:05 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Quietly we read , unable to contain our credulity we realized that weirdwolf said this: >Bill Jillians <"\"Bill Jillians\""@virgin.SPAM_NO_THANKS.net.SPAM_OFF> >wrote in news:CpR6pSBgQTSDFxVs@virgin.net: > >> Quietly we read , unable to >> contain our credulity we realized that weirdwolf >said >> this: >>>Jim Larson wrote in >>>news:Xns96E981A67E4183v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote: >>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>> Bill Jillians wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> My other grip about the film is why did they cast as the main >>>>>>>> character somebody with a thick Southern accent. He was very >witty >>>>>>>> when you could hear and understand what he was saying but for me >>>>>>>> that was about 65% of the time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> They say things under their breath in 'Mandarin' so maybe that's >>>what >>>>>>> you were hearing. >>>>>> >>>>>> And he doesn't have a southern accent. >>>>> >>>>> That too. >>>> >>>> Maybe he has a Guangdong[1] accent. >>>> >>> >>>I understood some of what he said, their speech was definitely better >>>than my pronounciation. >>> Oh and Bill all the planets looked like California? well it did say at >>>the beginning they terra formed the planets and moons. Terra form a >>>planet to be like California and that would be kinda nice, well without >>>all the actual Californians it would be nice. >>>Ted >> >> I couldn't agree more. I lived in California for 4 years and I had >> wanted to go there since I was 8. The scenery is fantastic but the >> people brought out the worst in me - particularly on the roads. I just >> thought they might have filmed in Alaska or somewhere not sunny and >> mountainous. > > Why? quite apart from the real world of budgetry restraints why imagine >Alaska? California was just as good a choice as anywhere. I just thought some of the planets in the Serenity universe might be further away from the sun and so be colder. Everywhere they went looked sunny and temperate (like Ca). I just thought they might be a little more imaginative. How about a savanna planet for instance? How often do you see one of those. > >> Did he not speak with a southern accent? > > I believe that Nathan Fillon is originally from Canadia. > >> It was a pronounced accent >> what ever it was. The baddie was an English accent though, thanks to >> the Hollywood rule that baddies are always foreign to make them appear >> more sinister to a xenophobic small-town American audience. Oh ... >> excuse me I have to go and do something sadistic to my next door >> neighbour. > > No no no! that's Americans we're more of the take over large parts of >the world and make them civilised. Well ok we failed with the Americans >and the Australians but that's the basic idea. > Ted Which makes us rotters, snobs, assassins and terrorists in the eyes of small town America. I've finished off my neighbour now I'm going to torture my cat. Funnily enough the Americans I met mostly thought Brits were more polite and nicer than they were. I said that was why I was in the USA which got a laugh. If you took the guns away from Americans they might learn some social skills but you can't be sure. > > > -- Bill Jillians .