Do you think these characters will age?
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I hope they and Lower Decks at least age/pass time slower. Might as well take advantage of one of the benefits of animation.
The Hagemans can always say, "They're aliens. They age slowly."
They also don’t have to rush the timeline. The show can avoid needing to have the characters age too much by keeping the average “down time” offscreen between episodes down.
For instance, the last two episodes probably took place over a few hours. There’s no reason for it to be 2 weeks later (or 8, including the real time hiatus) in the next episode, it could pick up soon after where they left off when we meet them next in episode 6.
They can keep them young to appeal to the target audience by not having each year’s worth of episodes represent a year in real time, but still have it take place firmly within the canon.
And maybe worth mentioning, the Hageman’s last big show, Trollhunters, did have the main teenaged characters advance in age, going forward in High School, over the course of the seasons, but not really changing in appearance, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they age a little without looking any different over the course of the series on Prodigy as well.
Edit: I *just* remembered that in Trollhunters one character, Eli Pepperjack, went through puberty over the course of the series of series, by the time of the movie length finale, and grew several feet in height, and went from looking like a child to a young man, so it’s not unprecedented from Prodigy’s series creators/showrunners.
For instance, the last two episodes probably took place over a few hours. There’s no reason for it to be 2 weeks later (or 8, including the real time hiatus) in the next episode, it could pick up soon after where they left off when we meet them next in episode 6.
They can keep them young to appeal to the target audience by not having each year’s worth of episodes represent a year in real time, but still have it take place firmly within the canon.
And maybe worth mentioning, the Hageman’s last big show, Trollhunters, did have the main teenaged characters advance in age, going forward in High School, over the course of the seasons, but not really changing in appearance, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they age a little without looking any different over the course of the series on Prodigy as well.
Edit: I *just* remembered that in Trollhunters one character, Eli Pepperjack, went through puberty over the course of the series of series, by the time of the movie length finale, and grew several feet in height, and went from looking like a child to a young man, so it’s not unprecedented from Prodigy’s series creators/showrunners.
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Also, they have a young girl (Alazraqui) in the cast. So it seems obvious to me that they're going to have to age up her character when she ages up.
PBS's Arthur is now going off the air after 25 years.
Nine different actors have played Arthur over the years (the actors are replaced once their voice breaks).
A woman might have an easier time than a guy when it comes to their voice.
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Why waste the opportunity to do a story about silicon-based puberty?
Erosion
"You've reached a very important moment in your life where changes in your body will cause aluminum-dioxide pours to open on on your skin. It may be very unsettling and leak the radon gas you've had stored up in your digestive track giving your friends cancer, but this is a natural thing. It's nothing to be ashamed of."
If she's mildly radioactive, she might have a half-life.
There's actually an arc about that in the New Frontier books upon which her species is based.
Expect a huge personality shift when it's time.
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