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« on: January 05, 2007, 11:38:44 AM »
I wasn't going to say this, because it's embarrassing, but---
I never had the problem many American viewers had with English accents, at least in the 60s. Many Americans, especially in the Midwest, would hear some slight trace of dignity or resonance in an actor's voice, and think he was British. They'd buy an obviously fake or practically nonexistant English accent from an American actor. I watched British shows from early childhood on, and thought I was immune to this kind of thing.
I've always thought the cousin-from-England cover story was meant to explain the (at least semi-) English accent of Barnabas's. Even now, in the last four years that I've had DS tapes in adulthood, he seems to have at the very least a sort of Transatlantic accent, which could be believable from someone whose American ancestor moved to England. If I'm just some easily duped sort of rube who gets suckered in this easily, well, that's going to be unsettling.