‘You’ve had your child kidnapped by a madman, have you?’ Etty snapped.
‘Oh, yes,’ the Doctor said quietly. He stared off vacantly into space, the memory clearly tugging at him. ‘And I got her out, too.’
‘Safe?’
‘And superb.’ He grinned.
A pretty solid Eighth Doctor Adventure, with Doctor, Fitz and Anji pitching up on a planet where the powers that be are engaged in dark manipulations of genetics with a religious cover for their activities. Much more detailed and thoughtful than Cole’s base-under-siege stories (which are generally pretty good anyway). Loses a couple of points for inconsistency of setting between blasted heath and robot city. Mercifully free of tedious Doctor amnesia.
That’s a fascinating article on Game of Thrones – particularly speaking as someone who directed a fantasy film with regional accents a few years ago!
Having said that, I suspect this is something that came up in Game of Thrones direction discussions. My experience is that the ease with which actors can do accents varies wildly actor to actor and accent to accent – choose the wrong accent for an actor and they can have so much trouble with it that it undermines their performance. (I suspect this may explain why Littlefinger was decidedly wooden for the first few episodes. I’m reasonably sure the wierd accent he’s doing is entirely deliberate and meant to reflect his background exactly as the article writer theorises – but it probably took a while to get used to doing it.)