Why did no one tell me about Torchwood sooner? Or if you did tell me, why didn't you make me listen? I can spend hours just listening to those lovely, lovely South Walian accents
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I've been blogging about this show for a long time; I even have an icon! :) I think I even said how I loved Gwen's accent. :) (A Welsh colleague, btw, from Port Talbot, loves how Dr. Who and Torchwood have brought so many jobs to South Wales.)
Have you ever heard Barrowman speaking in his native Glaswegan accent with his parents? :) Captain Jack is his own person and own ethnicity, but, yes, his seemingly brash behaviour is part of the American stereotype.
You don't get Pobol y Cwm where you are, do you? Every now and then I'll watch it, even though I don't understand most of it. :) (We'll be in Wales later this month, though.)
A lot of people have mentioned the show in passing or in great recurrent detail, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Several years ago, I once watched about ten minutes of an old rerun of Dr Who and thought the whole thing was pointlessly silly (not that there is anything wrong with that, I'm many of my friends are often pointlessly silly). In addition to that, it suffered from no-budget set design and the BBC's great difficulty recording audio--and complete inability to ADR.
So even when the new Dr Who was set/filmed in Cardiff, I avoided it. I still haven't watched it, but maybe I'll give it a go.
Gwen's accent is lovely, isn't it? What I also like are all the little bits of odd grammar that show up. They probably seem a bit awkward unless you are familiar with the Welsh grammar that influences them (e.g., perfect tense when preterite would be more natural).
I'm used to the Welsh accent what with my Welsh colleague. I've teamed taught with her, and students joke about having Welsh and American teachers for English, rather than English teachers. ;)
You don't get much of Cardiff in Dr. Who, except for some site locations. However, recently we saw a repeat of a Chris Eccleston episode set in Cardiff, and he has dinner in one of the many restuarants by the bay. We recognised the restaurant, and we also saw Bosphorus, a Turkish restaurant there, where we have eaten. Torchwood itself, of course, is supposed to be located right by the bay. We've stomped around there trying to find the lift, but to no avail. A friend in Cardiff has spotted her house in the aerial shots of Torchwood, though.
I've watched all of the first season--some of the episodes a few times. The second season and Children of the Earth should arrive tomorrow.
Besides the accents (and the show being great fun), it really shows of Cardiff's architecture well. I've seen plenty of pictures of the Millennium Centre and Millennium Stadium, but to see them with all those wonderful flyby shots is really impressive. Cardiff is half the size of Boston proper (and a fraction of the metro-area), but still looks both very old and very new...and all sophisticated and Europeanish.
*The snogging thing was in a luvvie-type-bash, before you get any weird ideas...or images...
Too late. You probably should have written that disclaimer sooner. And I'm really struggling to not let my weird images be influenced by that scene from the second episode--the one with Gwen in the vault with the young woman possessed by an alien.
The United States may be the land of the free, but you have post-watershed television.
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Also, I'm pretty sure Captain Jack Harkness is his own self, and no one's idea of anything. :)
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Have you ever heard Barrowman speaking in his native Glaswegan accent with his parents? :) Captain Jack is his own person and own ethnicity, but, yes, his seemingly brash behaviour is part of the American stereotype.
You don't get Pobol y Cwm where you are, do you? Every now and then I'll watch it, even though I don't understand most of it. :) (We'll be in Wales later this month, though.)
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So even when the new Dr Who was set/filmed in Cardiff, I avoided it. I still haven't watched it, but maybe I'll give it a go.
Gwen's accent is lovely, isn't it? What I also like are all the little bits of odd grammar that show up. They probably seem a bit awkward unless you are familiar with the Welsh grammar that influences them (e.g., perfect tense when preterite would be more natural).
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You don't get much of Cardiff in Dr. Who, except for some site locations. However, recently we saw a repeat of a Chris Eccleston episode set in Cardiff, and he has dinner in one of the many restuarants by the bay. We recognised the restaurant, and we also saw Bosphorus, a Turkish restaurant there, where we have eaten. Torchwood itself, of course, is supposed to be located right by the bay. We've stomped around there trying to find the lift, but to no avail. A friend in Cardiff has spotted her house in the aerial shots of Torchwood, though.
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Torchwood is excellent and you MUST watch every episode.
Mae'n rhaid, iawn? ;)
*The snogging thing was in a luvvie-type-bash, before you get any weird ideas...or images...
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Besides the accents (and the show being great fun), it really shows of Cardiff's architecture well. I've seen plenty of pictures of the Millennium Centre and Millennium Stadium, but to see them with all those wonderful flyby shots is really impressive. Cardiff is half the size of Boston proper (and a fraction of the metro-area), but still looks both very old and very new...and all sophisticated and Europeanish.
*The snogging thing was in a luvvie-type-bash, before you get any weird ideas...or images...
Too late. You probably should have written that disclaimer sooner. And I'm really struggling to not let my weird images be influenced by that scene from the second episode--the one with Gwen in the vault with the young woman possessed by an alien.
The United States may be the land of the free, but you have post-watershed television.
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Also, there's an episode of Doctor Who ("The Unquiet Dead" is the title, I think) with Eve Myles as a guest star.
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