Gracepoint finale liveblog

[dbskyler]

Channel-surfing, and I randomly came across the Gracepoint finale! (For those who don't know, Gracepoint is the American remake of Broadchurch.) Supposedly the ending is going to be different. Let's watch and find out!



-- Okay, problem 1: I haven't been watching this version, so I'm not sure who all these people are on my screen. Which actor is playing Rory? Um, I mean the priest? Oh well, I'm sure it will become clear eventually. At least David Tennant is playing the same character as before.

-- Oh David, your American accent is still rubbish.

-- Big flashback scene going on right now with some guy and Danny. I've just realized that not only do I not know which character this guy is, but I don't quite remember who the murderer turned out to be in Broadchurch. Oops, that'll make it hard for me to know if they really changed the ending or not.

-- OMG David, it's literally painful to listen to you talk. You seem to be trying to imitate Hugh Laurie in some sentences, and then you kind of drop into something that has echoes of your normal voice, and then you do something where I don't know what the hell you're trying for. And yet, painful as it is, I can't quite turn away. I just want to see what crazy-ass accent you come up with next. (I do still love you, though. Just not your "American" accent.)

-- Oh wait, I just remembered who the Broadchurch murderer was. They certainly seem to be leading up to the same ending with this current scene going on right now.

-- And now David Tennant just said the murderer was the same murderer as in Broadchurch. I thought they were changing it?

-- Oh god, David, what the hell accent was that?!! Seriously, DT's ever-changing, and yet ever-bad, accent is the most interesting thing about this show. (Well, given that it's a murder mystery where I already saw the original. It might be quite enjoyable if I hadn't seen Broadchurch. Except for David's accent.)

-- Hmm, there's enough time left for there to be a surprise twist, and to reveal a different murderer after all. I don't know if I care enough to bother watching through to the end, though.

-- Yep, it looks like they're leading up to a twist. Except, it seems like a twist for the sake of a twist, Yeah, don't really like those.

-- You know what this episode is missing? Rory!

-- OMG, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WTF??? What a STUPID revelation! Way to totally ruin two whole shows, Fox! Well done!

-- Okay, yes, in case you didn't understand that last entry, they changed who the murderer was, and they did it in what is arguably the worst way possible.

-- So, for those of you who've seen Broadchurch and want to know what they did, they made the murderer be the son of the female detective instead of her husband. And, they made it into an accident. So the husband is shielding the son, but really, everyone is good inside! (I haven't been watching the whole thing, but it appears that the reason the husband was with Danny in the first place has also been whitewashed from the original.)

-- Every time David opens his mouth, I can't help but think how much better it would be if he would have just been allowed to use his real accent. Or his English accent. Or, you know, pretty much any other accent.

-- Hmm, it looks like the most morally bad thing now is going to be the detective keeping quiet about the fact that her son was the murderer. Ooooh, how edgy!

--And now they're doing the lights on the coast scene, straight out of Broadchurch. Yawn.

-- Oh, here we go, now David's figuring out the truth. Okay, maybe we'll get a genuinely interesting scene here.

-- Wait, that was the END? So we don't know what David's character is going to do? Hmm. Trying to decide if that's an interesting ending, or just a blatant set-up for a sequel.

Comments

[arcanetrivia]

OMG David, it's literally painful to listen to you talk. You seem to be trying to imitate Hugh Laurie in some sentences, and then you kind of drop into something that has echoes of your normal voice, and then you do something where I don't know what the hell you're trying for. And yet, painful as it is, I can't quite turn away. I just want to see what crazy-ass accent you come up with next.

LOL. Pretty much (like I said in that other comment, wibbling around in every sentence). Shame about the comparison to Hugh Laurie, who always makes me double-take when I hear him speak in his natural accent, because my husband used to be super into House and I never heard any flaws in his American one. Karen Gillan wasn't perfect in Selfie, but better. I wonder if there's something particularly antithetical about the sounds of Scottish and American accents that makes them hard to switch between, or whether she had a better voice coach (or one at all), or what.

As for the show in general, I guess toss another one into the box of "Perfectly good British TV shows that went way downhill when an American TV network tried to remake them"?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yes, Hugh Laurie is really weird, because his House voice is all deep and grumbly, and not at all like his real voice, and that's independent of the accent. He does have a very good American accent, though. Unfortunately, David being all deep and grumbly just comes across as a bad American accent that is also unaccountably deep and grumbly.

I thought Karen Gillan's accent in Selfie was pretty good -- not perfect as you say, but definitely passable. It was more like an occasional slip-up as opposed to David's constant train wreck.

toss another one into the box of "Perfectly good British TV shows that went way downhill when an American TV network tried to remake them"?

Yep. I wish they would stop trying, and just let us enjoy the British versions in peace!

[arcanetrivia]

Unfortunately, David being all deep and grumbly just comes across as a bad American accent that is also unaccountably deep and grumbly.

Well, of course, we do make our detectives gargle gravel here in California, so at least it was accurate on that score. *sporfle*