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Post by Just Willow on Jun 9, 2009 21:38:40 GMT -5
lol. yeah, for most of Chsen i was sitting there lik e"Buffy, why are you wearing such damn impractical shoes!?"
let's see....other little things....Rona. my goodness gravy, she was annoying.
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Post by gumgnome on Jun 10, 2009 5:25:33 GMT -5
Molly's frigging accent. Oh my, the cheers when she finally snuffed it!
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Post by xaphania on Jun 10, 2009 9:20:38 GMT -5
Molly's frigging accent. Oh my, the cheers when she finally snuffed it! Completely agree! I hated her accent so much, bugged the hell out of me. The other one - Annabel, wasn't as bad but still not quite right. On that topic - it really got on my nerves when Giles would say an Americanism, eg. jelly instead of jam in the doughnuts, or 'gotten' instead of 'got'. I can understand the show was being written by Americans and is set in America, but one of the things that was always drilled home was Giles' Britishness so to hear him say he wanted the jelly doughnut just sounded wrong. I always wondered why ASH didn't correct them... |
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Post by wenxina on Jun 10, 2009 10:05:13 GMT -5
Wasn't Molly's accent supposed to be Cockney, and therefore different from Giles'?
Evidently, not English myself... but isn't there supposed to be a whole range of English accents?
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Post by xaphania on Jun 10, 2009 10:19:33 GMT -5
Molly sounded like she came from the Dick Van Dyke school of English accents. Giles speaks in RP (Received Pronunciation) a "posh" accent. Spike's is supposed to be North London, I think but well, that's debatable. Drusilla's... hmm, let's not go there. I'm not even going to mention Angel's Irish  Yeah, there are a ton of different English regional accents, and whilst Molly was meant to be a Cockney (and different from Giles) she didn't really sound like one. |
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Post by Mathieu on Jun 10, 2009 10:45:55 GMT -5
Molly's frigging accent. Oh my, the cheers when she finally snuffed it! Completely agree! I hated her accent so much, bugged the hell out of me. The other one - Annabel, wasn't as bad but still not quite right. On that topic - it really got on my nerves when Giles would say an Americanism, eg. jelly instead of jam in the doughnuts, or 'gotten' instead of 'got'. I can understand the show was being written by Americans and is set in America, but one of the things that was always drilled home was Giles' Britishness so to hear him say he wanted the jelly doughnut just sounded wrong. I always wondered why ASH didn't correct them... I'm pretty sure the script would even read "jelly donut" instead of "doughnut". Not that it made a difference in the end. |
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Post by iamthewalrus on Jun 10, 2009 10:54:10 GMT -5
i LOVE Mollys accent
it made me laugh so much
feelin' a bit peckish meself
Annabelles accent tho :broody: good god
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Jun 10, 2009 10:54:59 GMT -5
Haha some good points although I can't tell a real from fake English accent  |
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Post by iamthewalrus on Jun 10, 2009 11:03:10 GMT -5
it always bothered me that Willow was the one who was cyber-stalked... she seems like the least likely to fall for that. i always felt like she was too smart to fall for someone saying that they liked her... best quote (Terribly paraphrased): "Xander: I could say i'm an elderly dutch woman. Buffy: But you aren't. Xander: But who's to say i'm not if i'm in the elderly dutch chatroom? Buffy: I get your point. Oh my god, i get your point! This guy could be a circus freak. HE'S PROBABLY A CIRCUS FREAK!" it annoys me that Willow talks to the computer as she types, and that the computer talks back to her |
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Post by xaphania on Jun 10, 2009 11:03:38 GMT -5
Completely agree! I hated her accent so much, bugged the hell out of me. The other one - Annabel, wasn't as bad but still not quite right. On that topic - it really got on my nerves when Giles would say an Americanism, eg. jelly instead of jam in the doughnuts, or 'gotten' instead of 'got'. I can understand the show was being written by Americans and is set in America, but one of the things that was always drilled home was Giles' Britishness so to hear him say he wanted the jelly doughnut just sounded wrong. I always wondered why ASH didn't correct them... I'm pretty sure the script would even read "jelly donut" instead of "doughnut". Not that it made a difference in the end. Well that's just the way I spell it lol wasn't trying to make a point about that part. It was the jelly vs. jam bit I was pointing out. |
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Jun 10, 2009 11:41:43 GMT -5
it always bothered me that Willow was the one who was cyber-stalked... she seems like the least likely to fall for that. i always felt like she was too smart to fall for someone saying that they liked her... best quote (Terribly paraphrased): "Xander: I could say i'm an elderly dutch woman. Buffy: But you aren't. Xander: But who's to say i'm not if i'm in the elderly dutch chatroom? Buffy: I get your point. Oh my god, i get your point! This guy could be a circus freak. HE'S PROBABLY A CIRCUS FREAK!" Just because Willow's smart in the academic sense doesn't mean that she "gets" people. Just remember how she reacted when Tara when she told Willow that she knew about the forgetting-spells? Willow didn't seem to get that Tara would take mind-manipulating so badly, which she should have, considering that Glory's abuse didn't happen that long ago. I'm not saying Willow's deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to people, definitly not, but I'm not suprised that lonely-teenager-Willow wanted to believe in the guy she meet online. |
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Post by Nicholas on Jun 10, 2009 14:11:09 GMT -5
I never quite understood why Willow was talking to the computer in that episode, and she was even putting some emotion into it too. And when the hell did computers speak back and have emotion as well!?
Buffy often wore high heeled boots when fighting, impractical as it is, but its Buffy. I just always thought it would be cool if she staked a vamp with her heel like she did in the original Darkhorse series.
It also kind of bothered me the fact that no one ever came into the library...I mean, I realize that it was supposed to be played that way, but still. More people should have come in there than just two or three throught the first three seasons. Plus, I like how no one ever saw Buffy and Giles training in the library. There are two windows on the doors, so how come no one ever noticed?
And another thing, doesnt Buffy ever have class? She got great ACT scores, and passed some classes, but majority of the time she was in the library.
Another thing that bugged me, was that Cordelia said that all this weird stuff never started happening until Buffy got there. WTF?
Dont you think that by the end of Season 1, Sunnydale High would have security cameras?
Why was the high schools front doors open 24/7?
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Post by Just Willow on Jun 10, 2009 14:17:40 GMT -5
I never quite understood why Willow was talking to the computer in that episode, and she was even putting some emotion into it too. And when the hell did computers speak back and have emotion as well!? i always thought they both had microphones......so they could hear each other. |
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Post by vampireinrug on Jun 10, 2009 15:22:02 GMT -5
...but then why type what you're saying as well?
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Post by XanderHarris on Jun 10, 2009 16:43:14 GMT -5
I figure the whole "reading out" was just a measure to ease up the dialogue between Willow and her chat-pal for the viewers.
Instead of forcing the audience to read their whole conversation, Willow could read it out.
Spoken Dialogue > Written Dialogue
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Post by iamthewalrus on Jun 10, 2009 17:10:52 GMT -5
I figure the whole "reading out" was just a measure to ease up the dialogue between Willow and her chat-pal for the viewers. Instead of forcing the audience to read their whole conversation, Willow could read it out. Spoken Dialogue > Written Dialogue yeah, i get that's why they did it, but realistically i find it stupid |
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Post by Skeptic on Jun 10, 2009 18:20:18 GMT -5
I'm reading everything I'm typing right now and it's not making me sound like a crazy person. At all. /tongue-in-cheek I was married to a Brit a while so I get the thing about the jelly vs. jam. But my ex picked up some of the local dialect and even a peppering of accent (he was RP, for the record) after a few years. So, I just kind of assume that after X amount of years in the US, Giles kind of picked up a few of the local ways. Now, if he was in a posh pub in London and suddenly shouted "Hey buddy, gimme like a Bud Light and some wings!" I'd worry.  Molly's accent was pretty bad. If you want a comparably-bad American accent, rent "Cold Mountain". Awesome story; horrifyingly bad accents. |
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Post by Just Willow on Jun 10, 2009 18:25:02 GMT -5
or The Spiderwik Chronicles. poor Freddie Highmore lept losing his American accent halfway through lines...
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Post by wenxina on Jun 10, 2009 20:02:51 GMT -5
Oh Freddie... Finding Neverland was such a great movie... |
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Post by Mathieu on Jun 10, 2009 20:15:45 GMT -5
Nicholas, I also never understood why nobody ever walked in this library.
It was the emptiest library in the whole history of the world!!! I mean, I know it was not essential to the story but I just wish we'd had at least one student come in every, let's say, five episodes??? Like a minimum? It could have added some interesting awkwardness since they were always plotting against the monster of the week and we would have had random students walk in on their secret conversation to return random books. I think they did that twice at most. Not that I can actually remember.
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