The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Eleventh Hour 1x1" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/10/review_eleventh_hour.php Comments for the entry "Review: Eleventh Hour 1x1" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:55:17 +00:00 Comment from Toby O'B I enjoyed the original version, but just couldn't get past the idea of sweet Ashley Jensen as Stewart's bodyguard. This new girl, though, seems like she can deliver the goods.

What I don't understand is why Rufus Sewell had to go to the trouble of working on an American accent for the role. With a lot of your actors coming over here to work, I can understand that there are character considerations that dictate that they should be Americans (like Lennie James in 'Jericho').

But Greg House didn't have to be an American in the very beginning, not until other factors about his character were introduced (like having R. Lee Ermey and Diane Baker as his parents). Why couldn't he have been a Brit working at a NJ hospital?

And I think it's especially true with Dr. Jacob Hood. I don't see how it matters that the character should be from the USA. In fact, I would think the FBI would hire anybody with the expertise they need in the field, no matter what his country of origin.

And it might have given his character a bit more of an interest factor, because he came off a bit bland in the pilot....

]]> 4438@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c25995 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:55:17 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Maybe the FBI are too security conscious to work with foreign nationals these days, particularly ones that, as written, don't seem to concerned with protocol, following the rules, etc. They're more like to cut an American some slack wrt that than a Brit, I would guess.

Plus Rufus probably wants to get work playing US parts if this flops and this is his audition tape. I actually quite liked Hood in this - he was quirky, without being geeky or nerdy.

]]> 4438@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c26030 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:38:29 +00:00 Comment from eleventh hour episodes yeah I like the show....the casts really gave justice to their roles in fairness.

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