Not sure who was making this one? Thanks to Goddess for doing the last couple.

  • bananafungus
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    1 year ago

    Decided to start that sci-fi tv series Silo and the reviews mostly being about Rebecca Ferguson’s accent kinda shit me. It doesn’t detract from her acting or the show so I don’t get what the big deal is. Like are people really upset she doesn’t have that generic American accent and think that constitutes “bad acting”.

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      1 year ago

      I’m half way through and enjoying it. Though the pacing is a bit off. I feel like it blew its load plot wise in the first 2 eps and now we’re in danger of another lost or manifest…. I like her character and acting too but her accent is all over the place! And it does break the immersion a little bit.

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        1 year ago

        I agree on the pacing, I’m on ep three and there’s a bit of a drop.

        Maybe it’s because I watch lots of foreign language stuff and I used to listen to accents all day everyday for work so it doesn’t bother me at all. Obviously I hear her jumping around but it does wreck my immersion or anything.

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          1 year ago

          Just got to ep 3 and I was thinking tone wise it was so different and I wondered how I was meant to care so much about a generator for 40 minutes.

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        1 year ago

        I watched 4 or 5 of them and got annoyed at the slowness and haven’t watched more. I just read what the deal is online and went “ah ok” and felt I know what I wanted to know from the show, not interested in watching it happen really. Maybe I’ll revisit it sometime.

        I didn’t think twice about her accent though… I never expect anything from accents in future sci-fi because who knows how language and accents will evolve or why. Like in The Expanse.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve already guessed what’s going on anyway (I guessed it in the first ep), it wasn’t hard, and Google confirmed my suspicions. I’ll probably stick it out because I spend a lot of my work hours watching TV.

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        1 year ago

        I enjoyed her in The White Queen which is semi the reason I gave this show a go.