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> I've had a tellyfest today and been pissed off twice by lazy anachronisms:


in Merlin - Doberman Pinschers being used as tracking dogs <



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They could have been Manchester terriers ( big ones maybe I give you but.. ) possibly.

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The Dobermans are just one small part of all the hugely inaccurate aspects of post-roman Britain displayed in Merlin. I moan about them all the time.


My better half find it amusing that I?ll complain about the architecture or the style of their armour but have no problem with the wizard who talks to a dragon chained up under the castle.

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Oh, he only did that 'cos the ancient Egyptians were so hacked off with Robin Hood/King Arthur/Ghengis Khan/Jesus Christ etc. etc. speaking with American accents all the time.


Sean was so much better as the Scottish commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine in that 'Hunt For Missing Soviet Nuclear Sub With A Scot In Charge' filum.

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Back on the American accents thing. I remember hearing once that the actual accent in which the Early Modern English of Shakespeare was spoken was more akin to the rural hillbilly type communities of the USA than to anything still existing on the British isles.


So there may be something in using American actors to play British mediaeval characters, like Robin Hood and Jesus.

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