Accentia

I read people were complaining about Peter Dinklage's British accent in The Game of Thrones and it made me realize that none of the character in the series should be using an accent to begin with. It's a fucking fantasy series set on a fantasy world. No one is literally speaking English, it's just a placeholder. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit can get away with doing that because it was written by a British author and that's his native tongue, but The Game of Thrones is all-American. Then there's Star Wars where Obi Wan and the bad guys had British accents. Even Darth Vader had a British accent before George Lucas dubbed over it. There's a whole universe filled with white people speaking the same language and there's only two inflections? Then there's Star Trek with their translators. They can decipher virtually any language, but everyone aboard the ship still has accents.Kirk can understand what some half-black/half-white alien is saying to him about a half-white/half-black alien, but he can barely understand the two guys sitting in front of him on the ship. The characters are forcefully speaking English in their thick Russian/Scottish/Japanese/fine-ass black woman accents, but they don't have to. They can just yabber on in their native tongues and the translator technology will do the rest better than they ever could. When the universal language barrier is broken by technology, why would anyone ever bother to learn a second language, let alone speak it unecessarily?
The same complaint about British accents goes for historical films like 300, Gladiator, The Eagle, etc. These movies are set in ancient Greece, Rome, etc., but everyone talks with a British accent.