German accent[]
Does Quaithe speak with a german accent? Her actress is from germany! --Exodianecross (talk) 19:18, July 12, 2014 (UTC)
- Unfortunately she doesn't...which people have actually pointed out, online, is bizarre given that the only other person from Asshai, Melisandre, has a Dutch accent.
- "Some had this reaction to Melisandre, apparently from Asshai (east of Essos) whose accent is similarly strange. Carice van Houten is simply using her native Dutch accent; unlike the Lorathi (where we conveniently find they speak with German accents), the other person we see from Asshai (a strange lady in Qarth) has an unremarkable native English accent."
- Logically, shouldn't they have tried to match them?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 20:57, July 12, 2014 (UTC)
- I went and rewatched her scenes. The actress is actually from Frankfurt, Germany, though I don't know where she's spent much of her life. But having rewatched her scenes and seen some cast interviews, she speaks as "Quaithe" using her normal off-camera speaking voice.
- ...Despite being German, she can speak English so well that she doesn't have a detectable accent. Only if you pay very close attention, now and then she says a vowel somewhat strangely; she says "your" as "yer", she stresses "fie-er" a little more than she should.
- But she doesn't really have a detectable accent.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 21:15, July 12, 2014 (UTC)
- I understand. Perhaps the producers want to spare the "german accent" for characters who shall portray Lorati, and Carice van Houten was introduced "after" the appearence of Quaithe in season 2! --Exodianecross (talk) 13:55, July 13, 2014 (UTC)
- Well, we don't think they planned that - it just happened that "Jaqen" said he was from Lorath and the actor had a German accent...so at the end of Season 2 in "Blackwater" they realized "hey, Shae has a German accent too - why not say she's from Lorath?" -- But Melisandre and Quaithe appeared much earlier in Season 2, long before "Blackwater"....and probably before they saw that Jaqen-Shae similarity.
- The one good piece of news is that David J. Peterson is usually very careful about developing accents (he figured out what Dothraki-accented English would sound like, based on what sounds don't exist in Dothraki)...so the nerdy language fans are endlessly speculating about what king of accents different Free Cities should have.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 14:26, July 13, 2014 (UTC)