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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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[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.