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The HBO series Rome handled it well. People of noble birth used RP, plebeians had middle-class accents and soldiers tended to have working-class accents from th

The HBO series Rome handled it well. People of noble birth used RP, plebeians had middle-class accents and soldiers tended to have working-class accents from the southeast. Foreign slaves had a mix of foreign accents. IIRC Game of Thrones took a similar approach for noble families and the rabble of Lannisport, but leaned more heavily on northern accents for people from northern regions. I don't recall American accents in Rome, but there may have been some in GoT. If the story is good and the acting and characterizations are top-notch, it doesn't matter IMHO.

kjkjadksj 2y ago
The game of thrones accents are pretty cringe though, leaning way too hard on the "dark featured eastern beauty with an unintelligible accent" trope whenever there is a brothel scene. I'm glad they realized this was stupid and had Myseria unceremoniously drop much of her fake accent for Season 2 House of the Dragon.
- wongarsu 2y ago
  As someone from a country where brothels are legal I can assure you being cringe is very on-brand for brothels. The rich people of Westeros just all have a fetish for the exotic
  - mystified5016 2y ago
    When your entire world is essentially one medieval continent, anything even pretending to be exotic has to be pretty exciting.
  - kjkjadksj 2y ago
    I don't think they were doing it for a deep lore reason. Lets consider going from season 1 to season 2 in the shows chronology. It represents a gap of maybe 2 weeks, and in that time they gave Jacaerys 8 inch longer hair with a perm.
ttepasse 2y ago
Apropos Rome, there is the other semi-recent roman series, Spartacus, which obviously isn’t on the niveau of Rome, concentrating more on violence and nudity. But it did something very interesting with the language, making it through vocabulary far more archaic sounding, and as this blog post argues possibly somewhat "latin": http://bachae.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-spartacus.html http://bachae.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-spartacus.htm... (Don’t know if that’s true; back in school I wrongly chose French instead of Latin as a third language. Maybe someone else knows more.)

kjkjadksj 2y ago

The game of thrones accents are pretty cringe though, leaning way too hard on the "dark featured eastern beauty with an unintelligible accent" trope whenever there is a brothel scene. I'm glad they realized this was stupid and had Myseria unceremoniously drop much of her fake accent for Season 2 House of the Dragon.

wongarsu 2y ago
As someone from a country where brothels are legal I can assure you being cringe is very on-brand for brothels. The rich people of Westeros just all have a fetish for the exotic
- mystified5016 2y ago
  When your entire world is essentially one medieval continent, anything even pretending to be exotic has to be pretty exciting.
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  I don't think they were doing it for a deep lore reason. Lets consider going from season 1 to season 2 in the shows chronology. It represents a gap of maybe 2 weeks, and in that time they gave Jacaerys 8 inch longer hair with a perm.

ttepasse 2y ago

Apropos Rome, there is the other semi-recent roman series, Spartacus, which obviously isn’t on the niveau of Rome, concentrating more on violence and nudity. But it did something very interesting with the language, making it through vocabulary far more archaic sounding, and as this blog post argues possibly somewhat "latin": http://bachae.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-spartacus.html http://bachae.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-spartacus.htm... (Don’t know if that’s true; back in school I wrongly chose French instead of Latin as a third language. Maybe someone else knows more.)