Ripper Street series 3

[Rosemary]

Yeah yeah yeah

Too funny.

From our cold dead hands etc.
It also bothers me when films are shot in New Orleans & none of the actors has a credible, authentic accent. They mostly sound Bible Belt Southern Standard. Even in HBO"s True Detectives the accents were more East Texas than South Louisiana. The only authentic NOLA accent I've heard on film was Eric Roberts in Heaven's Prisoners. Straight up 9th Ward, where y'at, dawlin'!!

[barnflatwyngarde]

thats what i said on an earlier post.... nobody agreed with me!!!! I am not crazy after all!!

Thank you

Steadmund Brand

Glad to be of help.

Of course there is the possibility that we're both crazy!

[Steadmund Brand]

Was that Elizabeth Short whose image was used for Catherine Eddowes on Emund Reida map of Whitechapel?

thats what i said on an earlier post.... nobody agreed with me!!!! I am not crazy after all!!

Thank you

Steadmund Brand

[barnflatwyngarde]

Was that Elizabeth Short whose image was used for Catherine Eddowes on Emund Reida map of Whitechapel?

[DJA]

The DVDs are available.

Awaiting the Blurays.

[GUT]

Not difficult to see an American hand at work (Amazon?) in series 3.
One scene there, we have Reid & Co. parading down the high street equipped with hand guns & long guns. This is still Whitechapel I assume, not the O.K. Corral?

Too funny.

[Wickerman]

Not difficult to see an American hand at work (Amazon?) in series 3.
One scene there, we have Reid & Co. parading down the high street equipped with hand guns & long guns. This is still Whitechapel I assume, not the O.K. Corral?

[Vincenzo]

Jeez I still haven't seen season two. Lol glad to see its still going tho.

[Steadmund Brand]

I know the language can be a bit annoying at times, but if the story and acting are good I can overlook it... I mean.. let’s face it, no Ancient Romans or German Nazi's had perfect English accents like they do in most films

I just watched the last episode of this series... and I really liked it... this season had its ups and downs.. a few things were just to eh for my taste... like the 2nd last episode...when doing historical drama why do an episode that is so "trendy" .. not that it was a bad show ( well, yeah it was, just didn't hold my interest at all) however the last episode was WOW.. amazing.. I would say 4 of the 8 were incredible, 2 were good 1 was ok and 1 was eh...still.. looking forward to seasons 4 and 5 that were signed!!!

Steadmund Brand

[moonbegger]

It wasn't so much the accents I had a problem with, but the quaintly old-fashioned dialogue, which at times sounded more Elizabethan than late Victorian.

As I said, my grandparents were all Victorian children, and their conversational English as adults really wouldn't have been that different from ours today.

'Tis but a small quibble from me though.

Love,

Caz
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I wholeheartedly agree that it's the quaint Elizabethan dialog that throws a spanner in the works for me , yet the American ( Blake I think ) appears to have a regular American 20th century accent ? An Connecticut yank in the court of King Arthur springs to mind

[caz]

Moonbeggar and Caz, thank you for your responses about dialect (or lack thereof) in "Ripper Street". I thought some characters did have accents, that's how much I know!

Seriously, if everyone spoke authentic Cockney and thieves' cant, no one watching would understand it (at least over here!)

It wasn't so much the accents I had a problem with, but the quaintly old-fashioned dialogue, which at times sounded more Elizabethan than late Victorian.

As I said, my grandparents were all Victorian children, and their conversational English as adults really wouldn't have been that different from ours today.

'Tis but a small quibble from me though.

Love,

Caz
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[moonbegger]

Hello Caz , Yes I am sure you are right regarding the wider audience malarkey .. but I am sure that the occasional Eliza Doolittle cameo wouldn't do the ratings much harm . My Granddad had me in tow most Sunday mornings down club row & petticoat lane when I was a pup , and I can still remember clearly to this day the colorful language and expressions used by his older pals I am just a little peeved that the show chooses to paint over these cracks, falsifying history and denying a wide TV audience some genuine insight ... But oh well , it is TV , and I suppose we should be grateful for a decent period drama regardless of the flaws ..

Cheers , moonbegger .

[GUT]

Moonbeggar and Caz, thank you for your responses about dialect (or lack thereof) in "Ripper Street". I thought some characters did have accents, that's how much I know!

Seriously, if everyone spoke authentic Cockney and thieves' cant, no one watching would understand it (at least over here!)

think you have hit the nail on the head, when a show is made for international distribution they need to be particularly careful about language or listeners from some parts of the world will not understand a word.

[Pcdunn]

Thanks for the replies

Moonbeggar and Caz, thank you for your responses about dialect (or lack thereof) in "Ripper Street". I thought some characters did have accents, that's how much I know!

Seriously, if everyone spoke authentic Cockney and thieves' cant, no one watching would understand it (at least over here!)

[caz]

Hi Moony,

That was the only bum note for me in the first two series, the phoney sounding lingo at times. Maybe it was done for the wider audience? Can't be too many of us around who would recognise the difference. All four of my grandparents were growing up in the 1880s/90s but I only knew one of them, my dad's dad, a Londoner who died in 1962.

I'm waiting for the BBC to show series 3 here later in the year for free (and hopefully the newly commissioned episodes eventually).

Love,

Caz
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