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Okay, I've finally got round to watching the DW Confidential from Saturday and I couldn't help warming to Matt Smith. He's very strange-looking as himself, but he looks better in character in the various clips they showed of past performances, and he comes over as a nice guy. Which is, you know, pretty important. I wonder if they'll make him have an accent or if we'll actually be allowed to have someone well-spoken on the show? (Yes, I know that makes me sound like a snob, and I probably am one, but I'm a bit tired of all the London accents.)

Some fantastic clips of all the past Doctors too (well, mainly One to Five) which made me really want to start watching old episodes.

Possibly the best bit, though, was when they showed the tiny clip of Ten in the wardrobe room trying on his new outfit, and then David walking off the set and realising just how much of that image was CGI. And that it was just the TARDIS set with a few clothes rails in. I love that sort of thing and I really hadn't realised that room didn't exist at all!

I am going to miss DT. But I am getting more excited about Eleven.

Anyway. Done that, and now I'm off to bed. See you all tomorrow. :-)

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[stackcats.livejournal.com]

I agree on the accents, actually. Yeah, it's great that the BBC recognise regional accents, but there are still a lot of people around who are well-spoken (she says, her accent getting more Chatham-y by the minute).

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Yes, exactly. And yes, I've gone more and more Essex-y over the years, and I think a lot of that is because I hear it/London accents so much on the telly. When all I heard on the telly was well-spoken people, I was well-spoken too!

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I loved Chris Eccleston's accent. Despite him being the 3rd Doctor (4th if you include David Morrisey) to come from the North West of England he was the only one who sounded like it. Tom Baker, Paul McGann and David Morrisey are all from my part of the world - Liverpool - and not a Scouse accent to be heard between them! I know DM at least *used* to have one, but that was back in 1981 or something like that!

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I liked CE's accent too. I certainly don't have a problem with regional accents. I'm just tired of the London one - and that's probably partly because I hear London/Essex accents around me all the time. A northern accent is a nice change, but again, I wouldn't want to hear them all the time.

Sometimes when I'm watching CBeebies (the toddler-age BBC channel) with Jack, show after show seems to have Scottish accents, which, while very pleasant to listen to, can get a bit wearing when there's no variety!

DM seemed to have a bit of an accent in the interview they showed on the DW Confidential, I thought?

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

DM seemed to have a bit of an accent in the interview they showed on the DW Confidential, He did? I'll have to watch it again with the volume turned up. Often people from the north and north west end up with what I call a 'generic northern' accent; pretty much no accent at all apart from northern vowels; it's the way most of my family speak now they have moved away from Liverpool and when we have a gathering I tend to lose my scouse accent too.

Patients where I work often ask me where I'm from as I don't have a 'proper' scouse accent; the hospital is in north Liverpool where the accent has always been harsher and I'm south Liverpool born and bred which traditionally has a softer accent that still has touches of the Lancashire accent that Liverpool had before the scouse accent took off due to all our Irish and Welsh immigrants.

Woolton, the area where I grew up, still had it's own kind of Lancashire accent up to about the 1920s but it had pretty much died under the influx of scouse/Irish accents that came with the quarry workers. It was sandstone from Woolton quarry that was used to build our Anglican cathederal which meant the quarry was still active into the 1970s. It's a housing estate now, but I'm not sure I'd want to live there!

Here's the quarry nowadays...


And this is the cathederal