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snarpWe live like half an hour from Pikeville, Mom was born in Mingo County, and Dad has represented at least two McCoys. The mildest of Mom's remarks was, "That is the flattest Appalachia I ever saw."
Dad, who had been looking forward to it: "You know, this is actually kind of offensive."
Mom, indignantly: "It's incredibly offensive. They've got every single stereotype."
I declined to sit through it, but 1) the people making this seemed not to be aware that the average angle of the ground in this area is like, 45 degrees, and 2) why do all these southerners have midwestern accents? Kentucky and West Virgina are not located adjacent to the fucking Shire, you can't just make everyone talk like the Cincinnati Ren Faire and shrug your shoulders.
Dad, who had been looking forward to it: "You know, this is actually kind of offensive."
Mom, indignantly: "It's incredibly offensive. They've got every single stereotype."
I declined to sit through it, but 1) the people making this seemed not to be aware that the average angle of the ground in this area is like, 45 degrees, and 2) why do all these southerners have midwestern accents? Kentucky and West Virgina are not located adjacent to the fucking Shire, you can't just make everyone talk like the Cincinnati Ren Faire and shrug your shoulders.
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:04 am (UTC)I once dated a Kentuckian who was very fond of the theory that J.R.R. Tolkien had actually modeled the Shire on Kentucky.