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Old 01-27-10, 02:34 AM
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Re: Why don't they go back and fix that?
Originally Posted by Jimmy James
Wouldn't you have to "fix" the entire mid-season finale episode if you canned her accent?

If something makes no sense based on show continuity and can be relatively cheaply fixed, do it. If you explain it on the show, you have to keep it the way it is.

ETA: The accent change helps explain and therefore helps the audience accept when Michael slips into and out of accents (of varying quality and believability). They're in the deception business, and they have some skills.
What part of my saying that they should have fixed it AS SOON AS they decided that Gabrielle Anwar was not going to continue with the accent is so difficult to understand?
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Re: Why don't they go back and fix that?
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I hear you on Burn Notice, Count. They should go back and change Michael's Westen's name. Having Michael Weston as a guest star completely shattered the veil of reality for this show. Which one is real? The character on Burn Notice or the actor who's playing the dude dating Cuddy on House? Fix that!
He'll always be Private Dancer to me.
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Originally Posted by Count Dooku
It still makes me mad that they tried to explain what happened to the Klingons on Enterprise. It just raised more questions that can never be satisfactorily answered.
How did they explain it in Enterprise? I think I've almost successfully removed most of its existence from my memory.
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My point with Burn Notice was that they should have gone back and fixed it as soon as the they decided Fiona was dropping the accent. Instead of writing an explanation into the second episode, spend a day in a studio with Gabrielle Anwar redubbing all her lines.
Redubbing the lines before the pilot/show originally aired makes some sense. However, Fiona's backstory is that she's Irish and former IRA. If they redubbed her lines, they would've also possibly needed some pickups to explain why an Irish woman doesn't have an Irish accent, or to give her a different backstory.

The producers probably decided they liked the "former IRA" backstory and wanted to keep it, and instead decided to explain away the Irish accent in the second episode.
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How did they explain it in Enterprise? I think I've almost successfully removed most of its existence from my memory.
The "ridgeless" Klingons were due to the cure for the Klingon augment virus which threatened to wipe them all out if not cured. And the ridges apparently returned only after a few generations had passed since the treatment was administered.
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Re: Why don't they go back and fix that?
1. The reason why they don't fix this stuff is because it would cost money and not get them anything in return. Even if it cost one dollar, that's a dollar wasted.

2. I'm so glad I never wasted any time watching Enterprise. Klingon augment virus? What a bullshit explanation. The Great Bird's, 'people will understand we didn't have the money for that kind of makeup in the '60s', explanation is fine, should have been fine, and should have been adhered to.
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I'm so glad I never wasted any time watching Enterprise.
Wish I could say the same.
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Re: Why don't they go back and fix that?
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How did they explain it in Enterprise? I think I've almost successfully removed most of its existence from my memory.
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The "ridgeless" Klingons were due to the cure for the Klingon augment virus which threatened to wipe them all out if not cured. And the ridges apparently returned only after a few generations had passed since the treatment was administered.
It was a pretty thoughtful explanation in its elaborate-ness, as it involved the ancestor of Data's creator and a group of Khan 2.0 superhumans, but ultimately it tried so hard it was just ridiculous.
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Re: Why don't they go back and fix that?
Originally Posted by Groucho
There's no place in the 2nd season that that episode would fit.
Too bad they didn't put it on the first season Dollhouse-style

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Too bad they didn't put [the "lost" Fringe episode] on the first season Dollhouse-style
I'm guessing that even though FOX didn't air it in the first season, they still had first broadcast rights to it, and so didn't want it to be released on DVD before it aired.

The Dollhouse Season 1 situation is different, since the final episode for that season wasn't commissioned by FOX, so they didn't have any broadcast rights to it.
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