That’s what I would have thought, too, but the selection of actors for episode 2 sure doesn’t make it seem like they particularly care (and why would they, the show is made for an American audience).
That’s part of it I think. This board is the only place I ever hear things like “Oh that actor was obviously brought up in Glurgenspeil Country, I can tell by his accent” or “Sure, he’s actually an Austrian speaking Polish like the show wants him to be, but he’s clearly from the South of Austria and 14 episodes ago they said he grew up in the Northern part of Austria so his Polish accent wouldn’t sound like that”
As I said before, they could be speaking gibberish and as long as it was gibberish that sounded like the correct language, I (and probably a lot of other people) wouldn’t notice. The show does strive to get the accents right, but I don’t think they’re going to kill themselves over it. I mean, if they can get this actor for $10,000 or the one that can do the accent a little better for $18000 (just making up numbers here), maybe they’d rather use the extra money for Digital Effects or more equipment for the superlab or extra Eggos for Jr.
I’m pretty sure that minor roles like those Germans are set at union scale wages.
Just finally got to watch this episode (was away from my TV for a couple of weeks) and thought it was really fantastic. A couple of observations…
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I agree with those that think Walt Jr is going to be involved in a car crash of some sort. This is the kind of cause/effect Breaking Bad loves to do. Innocuous choices ending up causing terrible pain (ie: the plane crash indirectly a result of Walt’s actions).
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The mechanic makes a comment about “You can’t beat free” which is the same thing the Denny’s waitress says in the premiere. Also, the first episode’s title (and also the state motto of New Hamphshire) is “Live Free or Die.” All of this “free” business is foreshadowing something, but I don’t know what.
Ok, now I just have to watch the most current episode so I can catch up with everyone else here.
So is Walt going to pull a Scarface? (Though maybe against police instead of someone’s henchies…)