British accent

[Hopefulsuicide]

Just watching Season 7 of Buffy and having to cringe at the insanely over the top English accent... i mean early seasons Giles was bad enough, but they took it a step too far with the girls. They are teenagers! If it were at all realistic, they would be swearing in every sentance, probably sneaking out to get cheap cider, and talking in a much more regular voice :lol:

i know that the English sound different to Americans, but we DON'T sound like that :rotfl:

just thought i'd mention it :p

[Vergon6]

Just watching Season 7 of Buffy and having to cringe at the insanely over the top English accent... i mean early seasons Giles was bad enough, but they took it a step too far with the girls. They are teenagers! If it were at all realistic, they would be swearing in every sentance, probably sneaking out to get cheap cider, and talking in a much more regular voice :lol:

i know that the English sound different to Americans, but we DON'T sound like that :rotfl:

just thought i'd mention it :p
But Anthony Stewart Head is from England. I know that there are variations in accents according to region. Or are you saying that they asked him to ham it up? I know that James Marsters definitely is not, neither is Alexis Denisof. Yeah, those accents did seem a bit bad, even for a Canadian, I can tell when someone has a bad accent.

[TMLS]

Oh he definitely put an accent on - check out his other roles for proof of that (particularly "Manchild"). I'd liken it to what Michelle Ryan did in Bionic Woman when she went undercover - it was an American-friendly British accent.

Anyway, pip pip and tally-ho, what?

[Hopefulsuicide]

definately pumped it up, but i let it go because he was supposed to be that stuffy

the potentials where just normal English girls... funny thing Kennedy, who implied she was a rich brat, had the least over the top accent IMO

[knightofkrypton]

I always love listening to bad british accents....especially when they attempt to state that the character comes from a well to do family and the character has a cockney or upper country style british accent because thats all the actor can portray.