Multi-Cultural Casting


I am excited with this cast! I really hope it is going to be awesomely realistic. There is a hot Asian dude; this means that person who rants about no Asians might have other comments instead. I keep looking at Tyler thinking "Noah, I didn't want you to die!"

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Sorry, but I don't think that will stop the crazy no Asians troll.

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I do not think they are crazy. Just committed! ;-)

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Yes, committed to being a crazy troll. It would be one thing if they actually acknowledged the replies that, yes this show does in fact have Asians on it. He doesn't and continues to post that same post over and over on multiple boards. I cannot take someone like that seriously.

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The worst beating the Thai language has ever experienced. It was horrible and unintelligible from every person who attempted to speak it. I guess Hollywood thinks they can make up for the white lady butchering the language by following with an Asian person who butchered it equally as badly. Totally unrealistic and skewed view of Thailand as well.

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Just about every major network (and even the lesser ones) show with a significant foreign language component butchers that language unless the actors are native speakers. Which is rarely the case since such actors are unknowns. I've seen it done with Arabic, French, and Spanish (even when they have a Spanish-speaking actor it's usually the wrong dialect).

So it's not just Thai or Asian languages.

I don't trust people who don't like pets and I don't trust people who pets don't like.

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It was horrible and unintelligible from every person who attempted to speak it.


I think that is a bit hard mate,sure it is a prehistoric language that doesn't make much sence in the grand scope of getting folk to understand each other but to call it horrible might be over the top.

It is pretty hard to butcher it though,since it isn't fluent or nice to ears when spoken perfectly either.

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And, how many in the viewing audience are going to know the difference between badly butchered foreign language and fluently spoken foreign language? They will be going to a different locale every week; how much do they want to spend on making the foreign language well-spoken in every episode?

It's a television show, for pete's sake; give them a break. It's no reason to declare the entire show "bad."


"You're so analytical! Sometimes you just have to let art... flow... over you." The Big Chill

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Not to mention they don't have the big bucks to thoroughly make everything perfect. Considering all the "countries" they'll go to, I can only imagine how hard it will be to learn to fake the languages of those countries.

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Lol, Ms Asian troll will find something wrong. Noah was sweet...too sweet, we knew he would get it.

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You must have saw my posting of the same thing days ago! A Gay character is the main type not in or revealed yet!

You may be right, I might be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic you are looking for!

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How do we know there aren't any gay characters in the current cast? Perhaps they haven't yet come out to the world.

It could happen. So cool your heels.

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Yeah, but who's going to be the weird one? Can we actually have a show without the social idiot/intellectual savant character?

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