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[catslash]

I've been listening to a bunch of Doctor Who and Torchwood audiobooks since the semester started (there's a certain amount of time to fill) and am currently in the middle of Joseph Lidster's In the Shadows. I am enjoying it hugely so far for two reasons:

First, it is creepy as fuck and read by Eve Myles, who is really, really good at reading "creepy as fuck" (see also: certain segments of Border Princes - which, a quick Googling has told me, Lidster did the excellent abridgment of).

Second, it contains the following description of Jack: "He was indescribable, like a gay shampoo advert."

I kind of love Joseph Lidster right now.

(Now if only Eve would stop trying to do an American accent for Jack's dialogue. Oh my god. She didn't do one for Border Princes, and now I see why. And I want to know this: why is it that, when a Brit (from any part of the UK, apparently) fails epically at rendering a halfway decent American accent, it always sounds vaguely like the American stereotype of a leprechaun? It's highly unfortunate. And hilarious.)

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[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

I always love when they butcher accents. If you're into the new Star Trek at all, Zachary Quinto read the audiobook version and caused unintentional hilarity with his versions of Scotty and Gaila.

[coco_waters]

Failed accents are always hilarious :P I'm going to have to try to find this audiobook now, I need new things to listen to, and I really like Eve's voice.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I got it from an audiobook comm that I expect shouldn't be too hard to find in my userinfo, but I shan't link directly here because some places have rules about that sort of thing.

I highly, highly recommend that you check out Border Princes as well - that's where I fell in love with Eve as a reader, and the story remains my favorite TV tie-in book story ever. I actually ended up buying the novel itself to see what the abridgment had cut, I liked it so much.

[coco_waters]

I'm in a few of those myself, I'm sure I will find it somewhere :)

Will do! The more audio the better.

[twoseamfastball.livejournal.com]

He was indescribable, like a gay shampoo advert.

Works for Jack... works for Barrowman... perfect.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

It made me so happy. I am stealing the shit out of it. ♥

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Oh great! Remind me of Philip Glenister's EPIC American!Fail in Demons, why don't you?

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Okay! *clears throat* Hey, karaokegal!

Remember Philip Glenister's EPIC American!Fail in Demons?

*flees*

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

And I LOVE Philip Glenister, but that was NOT his finest moment.

Let's face it, not ALL British actors can be Hugh Laurie, when it comes to doing American.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

It's so true.

It's okay, though, god knows there are plenty of Americans failing at even the most generic of BBC!accents, so I guess we're even. Or something.

(But Jack still shouldn't sound as if they're after his Lucky Charms.

. . . so to speak.)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was thinking of John's Scottish accent and ended up with the wrong brand of Celts?

OK, I got nothing.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Ha. I've noticed it with other British actors, too. It's a combination of a tendency to hit the R way too hard and some other stuff that I'm not sure of but can sound awfully flat and weird. It is, oddly enough, the R thing that gives it the faux-leprechaun feel.