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I stopped watching For All Mankind at some point because certain developments were not to my liking, the but first few Seasons were just awesome.

Now for the first episode of this show...they speak in a British accent, which totally kills the immersion for me. This takes away so much of what made the original feel genuine.
This franchise is probably the biggest "What if...?" story out there and changing this small detail makes this more fantasy than science fiction than anything else.
Imho this should've been at minimum english with russian accents or at best russian dub with english subs.

The dialogue also sounds way too western.

Gonna give it one more episode.

Edited:

Better for them to speak with British accents, because otherwise it would be an ears bleeding experience - even here they managed to butcher names Valya/Georgy/Belikova etc., because simply cannot pronounce "ль" or "ий"

Visually imo quite precise, what is not surprising since in credits were a bunch of Lithuanian names.

Alright, random rant ahead: Complaints about inauthentic "accents" are such a weirdly specific thing, and one I have only ever really heard from northern americans (does that apply to you?). The word "dialect" is never even mentioned.

Most languages have a bunch of different dialects that can only sort of understand each other, so many countries develop an "official" dialect that is meant to be understandable and speakable by all; the "transatlantic" one was supposed to be that for English, for example. Most broadcasting in a language then usually happens in mostly that dialect, and any deviation from that is used as a stylistic choice, to make someone sound particularly folksy, or to make clear that a character is, in fact, a foreigner who had to learn the language later in life and thus has an accent.

I once saw a few minutes of a movie that was apparently in Russian originally, but dubbed in English. They saw fit to give literally every single character a thick (fake) russian accent because, apparently, the viewer needs to be constantly kept aware that these people are, in fact, Russians? Even though that kind of "accent" isn't even a dialect at all and just an inability to fully shift the pronounciation to a desired outcome; an actual accent. To me, that was utterly bizarre and incredibly distracting, gave up on trying to watch that.

...anyway, just had to get that out. Carry on.

No, I am not from northern america.

I only mentioned the russian accent because, considering it is a "northern american tv show", imho this would've probably been the more likely alternative instead of how they are speaking now.
I wasn't too hung up on that solution which is why I said "at minimum" and didn't want to go into any more detail with this option.

My preferred choice, as I also mentioned, was to have them speak genuine russian. Would it have been more difficult and challenging to do this right, of course...but that would've been a solvable challenge, no?

My only goal here was for the show to stay within it's established "fictional universe". After all, it is not a standalone story but a spin-off from For All Mankind. We heard Russians speak in this universe before (with both accent and in actual russian) and how they sounded there is different from how they sound in this show. That's all.

every culture has preconceptions of other cultures. even fictional ones.
are accents pretty bad in media?
did any one complain when the belters in "the expanse" sounded like gutter trash
but mars and earthers sounded like well educated gentlemen and ladies?

accents are used to separate people because clothes,color, etc does not get the job done.

people kill each other because of language barriers far more often then any other.

i am ok with a lot of subtitles, very few are however. so the only thing left is bad accents.
the nice thing is, its about the only thing left people can be derogatory about and get away with it

ARE YOU MAK8NG FUN OF MY ACCENT????????

( bad accents are ok as lot as they are not so bad you need subtitles anyways)

i am not saying you are wrong.
i am saying it serves a purpose.
even if it sounds horrible.
i would rather have bad accents, then no accents at all.
because then what would the option be. russians with british accents?
that just sounds like no one cares at all.

I think most people watch TV to be entertained.  They don't want to pull every single detail apart and find things that annoy them.

It's just TV, let it go.

You simply cannot relate - what I'm talking about is approx like this, you watch Star Wars and Darth Vader starts talking like a pokemon. It's that hilarious in most cases when Americans try to show some scary Russian military base or alike. As they start talking, "immersion" catapults out of the window

Very true indeed. However sometimes you are pulled out of the immersive universe and it kind of ruins the flow. It could be simply something as mild as laws against physics, accent of characters etc.

I like nothing more than watching something so intense, that when the end hits, you are left feeling emotionally drained, yet excited having watched a masterpiece.

Only a few Movies and Series have managed to pull this off for me. The Expanse, Mobland are a few.

As for 4k, I would love to have a 4k tv. The best I have done is 1080p. As my eyesight goes with age, I do not think that I could even tell the difference between 1080 and 4k. I have watched some very high quality 480p. I prefer a smaller file size with decent quality than a 32GB high rez copy.

This is the worst they can come up with as a spin off, its almost nothing  in space just wife and husbsand problems