Sunday the 11th as it happens, just a week away! *hyperventilate*
Oh, and the Irish accent makes me blink a little bit.
Personally I thought he was going for South African, though how any of those nationalities served with Jack in US Special Forces is quite beyond me.
Though I still find it frustrating on '24' when heroes die/are massively inconvenienced directly as a result of other people's stupidity or refusal to follow instructions
What I'd like to know is how the whole column of people managed to walk past said mine without anyone else actually stepping on it. Why did it only happen when Mr. Benton turned back?
In summary: good stuff.
Indeed. Most enjoyable. And more proof that Jack is, in fact, a one-man army. Though interestingly, although there is the impression that Benton killed people, you never see him do it. You just see Jack taking out people left and right.
Sunday the 11th as it happens, just a week away! *hyperventilate*
So assuming an unbroken run of 1 episode per week, that means I'll get [counts on calendar] 5 episodes in before I run away to Oz-tray-Leah? :-/ Not that I'm suggesting they don't have the Internet there or anything, but my access is likely to be far more restricted than it is here! Oh well...
Personally I thought he was going for South African, though how any of those nationalities served with Jack in US Special Forces is quite beyond me.Yeah, I was wondering about that as well - although we do know that Jack has worked in co-operation with British forces at some point in the past because he knew Stephen Saunders from season 3. (If memory serves they worked together in the initial strike against the Drazens that preceded season 1, I think
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So assuming an unbroken run of 1 episode per week, that means I'll get ... 5 episodes in before I run away to Oz-tray-Leah?
Actually, you'll get 8, because there is a 4 hour season premiere - 2 hours on Sunday, 2 hours on Monday, and then 4 episodes on each of the next four weeks.
I'm not really sure what a subtle South African accent would sound like!
Pretty much like what Robert Carlyle was using for the most part. The South African accent tends to make a's into more of an "eh" sound like in "met", and i's into something more like "oi", though it depends on the word. I'd think you're also more likely to find a Seuth Efrekan working in Africa somewhere, and many Seuth Efrekans have been mercenaries or worked in foreign units.
I'm sure there's two visible in the same shot at one point
Yes, there were at least two visible in one shot.
they avoided all the others too!
They walked through a minefield and nobody noticed. Amazing.
I just had another quick watch of some of the Robert Carlyle scenes and I still hear it as Irish, though I wonder if it might be my brain picking the accent I'm more familiar with. Frankly, given the whole 'we are blatantly different nationalities and yet served together at some point' bit I wasn't really expecting Benton's reason for being there to make logical sense. :)
You see the guys as they go crouching through the trees ... then they cut to a shot of Jack and the main bad dude where we simply hear a couple of shots.
Ah, that sounds familiar. Obviously Jack is the only one who's allowed to be visibly competent, and any other character acting competently has to do so off-screen to preserve the balance. Or maybe they were worried that the Thighs of DeathTM would immediately over-shadow it. :P
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Sunday the 11th as it happens, just a week away! *hyperventilate*
Oh, and the Irish accent makes me blink a little bit.
Personally I thought he was going for South African, though how any of those nationalities served with Jack in US Special Forces is quite beyond me.
Though I still find it frustrating on '24' when heroes die/are massively inconvenienced directly as a result of other people's stupidity or refusal to follow instructions
What I'd like to know is how the whole column of people managed to walk past said mine without anyone else actually stepping on it. Why did it only happen when Mr. Benton turned back?
In summary: good stuff.
Indeed. Most enjoyable. And more proof that Jack is, in fact, a one-man army. Though interestingly, although there is the impression that Benton killed people, you never see him do it. You just see Jack taking out people left and right.
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So assuming an unbroken run of 1 episode per week, that means I'll get [counts on calendar] 5 episodes in before I run away to Oz-tray-Leah? :-/ Not that I'm suggesting they don't have the Internet there or anything, but my access is likely to be far more restricted than it is here! Oh well...
Personally I thought he was going for South African, though how any of those nationalities served with Jack in US Special Forces is quite beyond me.Yeah, I was wondering about that as well - although we do know that Jack has worked in co-operation with British forces at some point in the past because he knew Stephen Saunders from season 3. (If memory serves they worked together in the initial strike against the Drazens that preceded season 1, I think ( ... )
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Actually, you'll get 8, because there is a 4 hour season premiere - 2 hours on Sunday, 2 hours on Monday, and then 4 episodes on each of the next four weeks.
I'm not really sure what a subtle South African accent would sound like!
Pretty much like what Robert Carlyle was using for the most part. The South African accent tends to make a's into more of an "eh" sound like in "met", and i's into something more like "oi", though it depends on the word. I'd think you're also more likely to find a Seuth Efrekan working in Africa somewhere, and many Seuth Efrekans have been mercenaries or worked in foreign units.
I'm sure there's two visible in the same shot at one point
Yes, there were at least two visible in one shot.
they avoided all the others too!
They walked through a minefield and nobody noticed. Amazing.
Then you're screwed.
That's everyone's situation with Jack regardless.
Doesn't Benton kill those ( ... )
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I just had another quick watch of some of the Robert Carlyle scenes and I still hear it as Irish, though I wonder if it might be my brain picking the accent I'm more familiar with. Frankly, given the whole 'we are blatantly different nationalities and yet served together at some point' bit I wasn't really expecting Benton's reason for being there to make logical sense. :)
You see the guys as they go crouching through the trees ... then they cut to a shot of Jack and the main bad dude where we simply hear a couple of shots.
Ah, that sounds familiar. Obviously Jack is the only one who's allowed to be visibly competent, and any other character acting competently has to do so off-screen to preserve the balance. Or maybe they were worried that the Thighs of DeathTM would immediately over-shadow it. :P
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