Out of the Ashes

Ok ok, I confess that I've cried a few times watching this series, but it's been a while since that happened, and in this episode Judith got it. An episode full of emotions.

Turgid, vapid, same story, huge errors, even the acting is getting worse. You can be original fan's and have some loyalty but enough is enough. The plot has gone from the first episode of the season, ten ish people setting out to get food for the whole colony, what are they secret pack horses? Travelling through a subway, then going on top of the carriages and then for some reason going inside when they could have walked on top past all the dead, good grief. As for the idiots in the commonwealth, jeezus. Seriously, it's laughably bad. Not forgetting the dialogue, "I'm truly content - it's the one gift I got out of the world falling apart". Yeh screw the billions dead, you're content baker man lol.

Come on people, really 10/10, 9/10?? The acting is at times painful to watch!! That wisperer guy who's hand was cut off?! The Pope?! Leah!! Everyone inside Commenwealth and especially Tomi and his very bad English accent. Truly some of the worst acting I've ever seen. They wouldn't even get cast for Jurassic Hunt-level movies. And then there's the storyline...absolutely nothing happened in the first 5 episodes of season 11. TWD got bit a few seasons ago, died and turned into a zombie. After watching 10 seasons I couldn't care less about the rest of season 11.

I don't know. I see the ratings for this episode. I'm having trouble making it through. The scenery is changing but there is nothing new. It feels like Groundhog Day.

Really have to force myself to care and see the series out but I will carry on till the end.

I only have one gripe and that is Ian Anthony Dale's fake English accent, don't get me wrong it isn't quite as bad as Dick Van Dykes in Mary Poppins but some of the enunciations are the same as Dick Van Dykes so when he and Eleanor Matsuura have a scene together it stands out all the more.

This is the problem when American actors try to mimic an English accent, their inflections are completely off and they mispronounce whilst mixing up some wierd hollywood idea of what a Londoner sounds like with an Oxford University Professor and it all comes out like a drunken Australian with a severe speech impedement with a mouth full of porridge.

Sorry but please give the guy a decent speech coach because he isn't a bad actor he just needs more attention to how to speak with an English Accent.

And on the subject of English accents in Hollywood / American TV there are many different accents to choose from, you have the typically Northern Accent (Yorkshire) like Sean Bean speaks, you have the Liverpool accent like the Beatles speak, the Midlands accent like Ozzie Ozborn speaks. There are lots more worthy of mention like the West Country accent, the Cumbrian accent, the Geordie accent and the Norfolk accent (Similar to West Country) and still this is just the tip of the iceberg.

So why is it we generally hear only the toff accent or some wierd Londoner accent as representing England?