Bilingual TV watching

[hmpf]

Watching the first episode of The Lakes, series two, and there's this scene with German tourists - naked German tourists, as it happens *g* - happily babbling away at Danny (John Simm's character) - and it felt so strange to suddenly hear German amidst all the English. I think it took me a moment - fraction of a second - to notice that there was a language switch, actually (this has happened to me before, this sort of slightly delayed realisation of 'hey, wait a sec, that's German!/English!'). And then I got sort of weirded out by the fact that Danny, of course, couldn't understand what they were saying, yet I could. It's odd to understand something the protagonist doesn't.

ETA: What's with the bizarre, 'We want to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer!'-type new credits???

Comments

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Hee, neat! Reminds me of the one time I'd spent all day listening to Japanese songs, and got one with minimal English lyrics and was all "Huh?" and that split-second where I readjusted (as you said above), and then I was all, "Oh." Heh.

They're repeating The Lakes on ITV3 (I think) at some point soon, and I keep tossing up whether to watch it or not. Mum mentioned it because of John Simm being in it, and I never saw it the first time around. Maybe I should just so I can see the scene you're talking about?