The Dialogue

I used to love watching Sons of Anarchy, it was an interesting look on the internal struggles of a motorcycle club. The first season was mainly done in one episodes, prior to getting picked up for season two. Season two was called 'Hamlet in leather on motorcycles'. The third season which I finished watching two weeks ago is different than both these seasons, it did what dramas shouldn't do.


They shouldn't move away from their setting, and that is what it did, at the wrong time and made it unbearable. Essentially three quarters of the club go to Northern Ireland, I won't say why. The thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was how the irish characters sounded exactly like the american characters, not so much the accents (despite being some bad ones). That last bit isn't strictly true, they always say 'aye'. Every single line, they say 'aye'.

There's something wrong when the characters start to sound the same, it sounds like the writer, not
characters. Now Americans might say Intel, but I've never heard any irish man in any thing ever say intel like they do in this show. SOA showed its weaknesses and should have been cancelled for it.Also the American perspective leads it to taking a republican side, which is generic of them. It seems like they knew no one Irish, why not hire an irish writer to work with them, for some reason they must've got a plastic paddy. Is there something wrong with even doing as little as watching the Commitments or other Ireland set films, rather than the Boondock Saints.

Write what you know, and don't hire american actors to do Irish accents. Hire James Nesbitt.