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RE: FICTION: Assembly

in Freewriters21 hours ago

Space is like a zombie filled world - there are infinite stories within these landscapes. The galaxies are limitless. I'm keen.

You know what always gets me, is where all the accents come from in the TV shows you watch about space. If Earth has receded into the background of humanity, wtf is there a low class space engineer speaking with a cockney accent? Have a heap of south Londoners maintained their identity throughout space time? Because even accents change when colonies start on earth, over mere 200 years - the French in Quebec, the Scottish in Nova Scotia, the Europeans in the Antipodes.

No one ever talks about this.

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YES. This is something that I have thought about as well - it is very immersion breaking - even in other cinema to have allegedly "American" cop shows where the officers and investigators wander around - say Chicago talking in a British accent, because well, while the sound stage and the catering is deep-dish pizza, jazz, and industrial streets - the origin of the writers and actors do not.