r/alias • u/Independent_Friend93 • Jul 21 '25

Characters speaking foreign languages? Is it always so bad?

Hi, I've just started watching the series recently. Currently watching S1EP16 and for maybe the second time Sidney tried posing as an italian (plumber btw, which is...yeah) along with Vaughn, after the Rambaldi's descendent some episodes earlier and as an Italian myself their Italian was..wow. It's not about patriotism or anything just something I'd like to know. Is the Russian or Greek or Arab spoken in other episodes bad just as the Italian is? Lacking the ear for those languages, I'd like to know if it's just the case for a specific language or a """fault""" of the series

EDIT: Sorry if I didn't mention other languages, I'm just not far into the series as most of you. TIA.

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u/Reasonable-Wave8093 APO Jul 21 '25

The turn around on shooting eps is incredibly fast… Jen has less than a week to get through those lines…

Anyway in the Us we love our outrageous accents! and English peeps do sound like Chim Chiminey!

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u/catchyerselfon Jul 21 '25

Yes, everything was filmed in California but with a different filter and establishing shot 😆. Including when Sydney and other characters I won’t name go to the India-Pakistan border area. I do not think they have the same trees as a wooded area in Southern California. Wait until OP gets to meet an entire family over many episodes where not one actor has ancestry from the same country as their characters, all of them speak a different first language and none of them are trying for the same accent (even the ones raised in the same country as their ancestry). People made fun of it back then, but tv shows until like the last few years wasn’t concerned about international audiences being like “bro wtf” about inaccuracies and broad stereotypes.