The Doctor's voice

[gweeps]

His accent is thick. Hope I adjust to it b/c right now I miss every few words.

 

[Lord Garth FOI]

Love his Performance thus far, very interesting actor interesting take on the character

 

[Ragitsu]

His accent is thick. Hope I adjust to it b/c right now I miss every few words.

Did no one pick up on this in post? Maybe the head honcho(s)/test audience deemed it acceptable.

 

[Tuskin38]

I can understand him fine, and I've never been exposed to accents like his before.

Maybe I just have a good ear for it.

 

[DEWLine]

I've heard tell that there is a distinct Saskatchewan accent to the ears of anyone who grew up in Ottawa, so...

 

[Ragitsu]

O'Brien would disagree with the claims of this Utopia I reckon.

Given how quickly he got over his...

Spoiler

decades-long mental prison trauma

...I'd say he would - at the very least - rave over its phenomenal healthcare system.

 

[dupersuper]

Everyone on the crew looks like a 90s Gap model to me.

Including the Aenar?

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Including the Aenar?

That's what most of them look like without the makeup

 

[Ragitsu]

Had a hard time understanding him last episode. When he goes rapid or starts doing that darn whisper voice that's so prevalent. (Well that pretty much everybody .. Cant understand when they whisper.. )

Hm...could he pull off a convincing Batman?

 

[Oso Blanco]

He had a presence about him. He was like that in Daredevil too.

I actually had to google who he was in the MCU ... I would never have recognized him!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I think this week was the first time I heard the Doctor say his own name "M'Benga out", pronounced mmm-benga.

Other characters kept pronouncing it muh-bengna and I didn't think that sounded right. I'm no kind of expert on Kenyan languages, but I thought it should have been (at least) em-benga or just mmm-benga.

 

[Yistaan]

I think this week was the first time I heard the Doctor say his own name "M'Benga out", pronounced mmm-benga.

Other characters kept pronouncing it muh-bengna and I didn't think that sounded right. I'm no kind of expert on Kenyan languages, but I thought it should have been (at least) em-benga or just mmm-benga.

This is the same universe where Chekov's speech impediment, that somehow isn't curable by Starfleet medical technology, prevents him from saying the 'v' sound except when pronouncing his own name "Pavel Andreivich Chekov"

 

[Ragitsu]

This is the same universe where Chekov's speech impediment, that somehow isn't curable by Starfleet medical technology, prevents him from saying the 'v' sound except when pronouncing his own name "Pavel Andreivich Chekov"

Speaking of Chekov...I question the competency of his history teacher/professor.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I watched the fourth episode and I had trouble making stuff out again... but for other characters this time, and only at the start. I had no trouble making out what M'Benga was saying. So I guess I can understand his accent fine, it's just they had him talking too low or they didn't do the best job of picking him up on the mic.

 

[Kaelef]

Yep - just watched episode #4 and M'Benga was perfectly understandable, while I still had issues with Chapel a couple of times. I'm blaming it on sound mixing issues at this point.

 

[Ragitsu]

Cheers, Ray and Kaelef. I do not know if I am going to stick with this series (for reasons beyond this particular issue, if anyone cares), but if both/either of you could please report here for the next two or three episodes, I would appreciate the effort.

 

[T'Bonz]

Yeah, I have to put on captions when watching the show.

And Paramount + needs to do something about the frequent buffering. It's annoying as hell.

 

[Dar70]

This is the same universe where Chekov's speech impediment, that somehow isn't curable by Starfleet medical technology, prevents him from saying the 'v' sound except when pronouncing his own name "Pavel Andreivich Chekov"

Haha..Good Point....

 

[Dar70]

Yeah, I have to put on captions when watching the show.

And Paramount + needs to do something about the frequent buffering. It's annoying as hell.

I thought I had a slow connection or something. Lol....

 

[Ragitsu]

How does he compare to the original M'Benga? I don't have my Blu-Rays on hand and it has been ages since I saw the one episode (were there in fact two?) that featured the doctor specializing in Vulcan medicine; YouTube is no help in this regard, by the way.