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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 128422" data-attributes="member: 27">I&#039;ve mentioned before just how much it bugs me that no one on the show has a Southern accent (at least those who should).&nbsp; One does not lose their accent simply because they come into money.&nbsp; The whole &quot;Atlanta isn&#039;t like the rest of the south&quot; argument is valid to some degree, but most of the residents who moved there from elsewhere in the south retain their speech patterns.&nbsp; Even if a select few people make a conscious decision to lose the accent (like Alexis may have done as she traveled the world), they would be surrounded by people who would still have it (like the servants, employees at C-A, most locals).&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing that someone in production decided that if the leads were not going to depict their Southern roots, then no one in the scenes (even the under-fives and &quot;locals&quot;) would, just to keep things uniform.&nbsp; I think it leads to a very unrealistic depiction, but I know I&#039;m over-sensitive since I grew up watching and critiquing such unrealistic depictions of my home state/culture in other programs.It especially bugs me that Tom C didn&#039;t have that &quot;good-old-boy&quot; Southern twang, since he would have needed to blend in/get along with all the power brokers of Atlanta during his rise to wealth (most of whom would have been old-fashioned Southern men).&nbsp; If he had not adopted the same sort of mannerisms, and in fact outdid them in such behavior, he would have been &#039;frozen out&#039; as an outsider (what we called a &#039;carpetbagger&#039; in the post Civil War era).&nbsp; The good old boy network was very much alive and well and would have made it nearly impossible for him to succeed otherwise.I think a lot of the &#039;rush&#039; of season one had to be that feeling that they had to get as much done as possible because the show might not last long enough otherwise, a sort of &quot;we need to party now because the cops are going to show up to shut us down any minute.&quot;&nbsp; Once they got the back-order for the remainder of the season, the writing style changed for the better, and I&#039;m sure the renewal for season two gave the writers even more security to pace themselves and get to the major plot points at the right time rather than doing it ASAP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 128422, member: 27"] I've mentioned before just how much it bugs me that no one on the show has a Southern accent (at least those who should). One does not lose their accent simply because they come into money. The whole "Atlanta isn't like the rest of the south" argument is valid to some degree, but most of the residents who moved there from elsewhere in the south retain their speech patterns. Even if a select few people make a conscious decision to lose the accent (like Alexis may have done as she traveled the world), they would be surrounded by people who would still have it (like the servants, employees at C-A, most locals). I'm guessing that someone in production decided that if the leads were not going to depict their Southern roots, then no one in the scenes (even the under-fives and "locals") would, just to keep things uniform. I think it leads to a very unrealistic depiction, but I know I'm over-sensitive since I grew up watching and critiquing such unrealistic depictions of my home state/culture in other programs. It especially bugs me that Tom C didn't have that "good-old-boy" Southern twang, since he would have needed to blend in/get along with all the power brokers of Atlanta during his rise to wealth (most of whom would have been old-fashioned Southern men). If he had not adopted the same sort of mannerisms, and in fact outdid them in such behavior, he would have been 'frozen out' as an outsider (what we called a 'carpetbagger' in the post Civil War era). The good old boy network was very much alive and well and would have made it nearly impossible for him to succeed otherwise. I think a lot of the 'rush' of season one had to be that feeling that they had to get as much done as possible because the show might not last long enough otherwise, a sort of "we need to party now because the cops are going to show up to shut us down any minute." Once they got the back-order for the remainder of the season, the writing style changed for the better, and I'm sure the renewal for season two gave the writers even more security to pace themselves and get to the major plot points at the right time rather than doing it ASAP. [/QUOTE]

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