----- Original Message ----- From: Mistral mistral@centurytel.net To: B7L blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Subtext vs Character
Fiona replying to Kathryn:
I also find your interpretation of Travis II a bit disturbing. So just because he has a regional accent, he's automatically a thug who has
worked
his way up through the ranks? How do you know that that isn't what
officers
sound like in the future?
Nobody mentioned his accent; your own assumptions are disturbing you.
True, nobody mentioned his accent *directly*; I was picking up on the fact that Kathryn said that Travis II was a thug of a lower social class than Travis I. Since I don't think she could have read those differences in from the change in waist size (or from the change in behaviour; Travis I is just as menacing as Travis II), the only reason for inferring it as far as I can see is that Brian Croucher has a marked East End accent, and Stephen Greif doesn't.
If Chris Boucher always saw Travis as someone who had worked his way up from the ranks, then Stephen Greif may have been playing him as a man who had disguised his origins and changed his accent, while Brian Croucher was playing him as someone who had stayed true to his origins and taken stick for it.
Fiona
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