Originally Posted by
Psychotic
The accents are just smurfing crazy town. It's weird because some actors have made real efforts to change their natural accents such as Robb, Ygritte and Joffrey so someone somewhere has made a decision for them to talk as they do... but then not other actors. Why change some, and not others? Joffrey's actor naturally has an Irish accent but dropped it for the show, yet for some reason it's fine for Cat, Littlefinger and Roose Bolton to keep their Irish accents.
I think I've said this before but the entire Stark family has different accents to each other, as do the Baratheons. And no wonder Gendry refused to believe Davos when he said he was a Flea Bottom boy too when he started speaking in that filthy geordie accent. I dunno, can non Brits even notice? I assume it's obvious with the likes of Melissandre and the Dornish, but can you tell, say, Ygritte, Sansa, Arya and Davos apart? All four have different English accents.
Oh, and Tyrion has the worst smurfing accent ever.