You're right. The right thing to do for a 2019 production like DSC would have been reusing prosthetics and make-up techniques from 50 years ago
New Talosians?
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What must all those aliens think about our puny foreheads?
We was robbed!!!! I want my ridge!!!!!!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's nothing wrong with that makeup.
A burden we must all live with.
idk, I havent seen it in 4k UHD yet
Except that it would look super silly in our day, but who's counting?
Like that makes a difference? Do you go up to your flatscreen with a microscope looking for seams in the latex? Seriously, you're ridiculous.
How does it look silly? The gratuitous CGI veins look sillier than air bladders to me.
nah, my screen is big enough. I don't need a microscope
Because it's outdated, and nobody except for a few die-hard TOS fans would watch that.
You don't need a microscope. One can see all sorts of things unintended by the make up artists from a chair a few feet away from the screen.
Nice to know people are taking this thread seriously.
You haven't articulated why. Makeup really hasn't evolved much between then and now. The air bladders they used were actually really advanced for the day. The next time I saw something like that used was American Werewolf in London many years later. But no, we're just going to look at the year it was made and make a sweeping judgment call: "outdated".
It's on it's way to become my favorite thread around here
I'm still upset that they recast Meg Wyllie, Malachi Throne, and Susan Oliver.
well now they do. the previous Talosians you saw were an illusion. Pike is still rolling around in Talosian burning mind hell for overdue library books and Vina likes to try on a total new look now and then.
(plays twangy reverb guitar one note after another)
No more ridiculous than complaining about a makeup change. Dude, it’s really not that big of a deal. So they changed a fictional species look? So what?
What did you think of the changes to:
The Klingons. The Romulus. The Cardassians. The Trill. The Andorians. The Tellarites. The Gorn. The Borg.
All of these species at one point have had their looks updated at least a little (sometimes more than once) in the 50+ years Trek has been around.
Why is it such a big deal that they did it to the Talosians?
What sweeping judgment? I was talking about a very specific effect in a specific episode. I don't care about the year, nor was I knocking the show. You even got the why wrong. Seems to me like you're the one prone to sweeping judgment calls. Cool it, mate.
I love that transition from The Cage...
