EEK! Mermaid Sighting on Secret Circle

How pleased was I to learn that Phoebe Tonkin from H2O: Just Add Water was actually starring in the new witchy show, The Secret Circle? So now she's a witch AND a mermaid. Welcome to having sci-fi street cred, Phoebe. Also being worth about fifty points in the Obscure Reference game. Her American accent sounds...strange, as do the fake American accents of many an import. But she can work on that. WHO THE HECK KNEW THAT JASON STACKHOUSE WAS AUSTRALIAN? If your answer is "anyone who looked on Wikipedia," then you are a smart aleck and need to shut up. Anyway, if you didn't already know that the person was from a different land, sometimes they can fool you. I was fooled by Anna Torv on Fringe, even though people say her accent is bad. I think the people who say that already knew she was antipodean (look THAT word up on Wikipedia, smart alecks) and were listening really hard for inconsistencies in the dialect. If you aren't looking for it, you won't find it, and you just watch a show and think everyone's American until you learn otherwise. Unless, of course, you hear someone saying, "Howdy you all, this is a totally awesome surf party that we are at, homies! Coca Cola, baseball, apple strudel--I mean pie!" Then some eyebrows might be raised.