[ SECRET POST #4039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4039 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I remember the handwavy fanon explanation at the time was that it was a crap accent because Spike's natural accent was William's posh one and he was faking his Spike accent to sound cooler.

Or he needed a better dialect coach.

One of those two.

[(Anonymous)]

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If I was going to write fic with him in it, my explanation would be that he's a vampire and all the time he's spent in other parts of the world has muddled his accent. And maybe that his more egregious pronunciations were designed to annoy.

[tabaqui]

He based his accent on Anthony Stewart-Head's actual real accent - Giles' posh accent is fake.

[(Anonymous)]

I've met ASH a few time and, fair enough, JM is clearly aiming for something similar, but I think accents are not really his forté. It's okay, though - it makes bizarro Buffy-sense

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it worked for American TV 'cause we know fuck-all about accents that aren't American, so.... :)

[(Anonymous)]

Not fake exactly - more one of the options for ASH to use depending on context. I do similar - I can be full-on "Cambridge University" when I choose, but not in all situations.

JM got it some of the times but with wobbles.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it's good enough for us Yanks. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure he was on his own for the accent early on. I think I remember reading somewhere that the white T-shirt he wore under his jacket was - at least initially - a shirt he already owned and he wore it as part of his wardrobe until it wore out. Like, he had to SUPPLY HIS OWN T-SHIRT. I assume Spike wasn't originally expected to become such a significant character, so they weren't going to sink a lot of money into things like a dialect coach, and by the time they might have, it was too late to bother because viewers were used to Spike sounding a certain way.