Date: 04/02/2024 21:13 (UTC)
sovay: (Rotwang)
From: [personal profile] sovay
This is pretty interesting since we're not alone in that, as mentioned by other people in the comments.

I think it's a real problem and I'm not sure why it was allowed to be. Ensemble miniseries are not a new form. I don't even watch that much TV and I can think of more than one show I have seen (I have not seen either Band of Brothers or The Pacific) that had to introduce a wide cast and start losing them almost immediately without losing the audience. I have certainly seen movies that work that way with even less time.

Everyone sounds the same and looks sort of the same and yes! it's all just eyebrows.

They really didn't cast for voices at all. Even before the accents, too many of the actors are speaking in the same register with the same kind of timbre. So much of each episode is spent in cross-talk in the air, they needed to be instantly identifiable to the ear. And the U.S. was full of distinct regional accents in the '40's! Almost none of these people who are supposedly drawn so widely from across the country that they keep a pushpin map of their far-flung home towns should sound so much alike. I feel like I should be hearing a lot more twangs and drawls and little quirks of dialect that even college or flight school wouldn't iron out of a person. My grandfather who was 4-F for World War II on account of his eyesight spent the majority of his life in the Midwest and New England and he sounded to the end of his life like the first-generation Brooklyn Jew that he was. I was born when American accents were already homogenizing in the second half of the twentieth century and a friend of mine from Wisconsin once sat me down and ran a compare-and-contrast on our dialects just for the fun of it. I shouldn't be able to be confused by a plane full of characters all from different states.
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