Orci's Official Explanation for appearance and eye color [SPOILER]

[BlueMetroid]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

Plus, I knew with Orci/Kurtzman's penchant for explaining inconsistencies in hindsight (i.e. Chekov's age) that we'd get it answered eventually.

 

[Christopher]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

I think that in old soap operas, when a character was recast, sometimes there'd just be an announcement saying "The part of Blah Blah will now be played by So-and-So" and that would be it. Although plastic surgery is a popular fallback there as well.

 

[Set Harth]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

Even though an explanation in the film would have been better than an explanation in post-film comics, I'm just glad they're addressing it at all. It's the difference between feeling like the writers just don't give a shit and feeling like they do give at least a little bit of one. Which for me is significant. YMMV.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

Plus, I knew with Orci/Kurtzman's penchant for explaining inconsistencies in hindsight (i.e. Chekov's age) that we'd get it answered eventually.

You might want to avoid the Bond films. On at least one occasion Bond's appearance changed and then one movie later changed back!!!!! All with no explanation!!!!

 

[M'Sharak]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

Plus, I knew with Orci/Kurtzman's penchant for explaining inconsistencies in hindsight (i.e. Chekov's age) that we'd get it answered eventually.

You might want to avoid the Bond films. On at least one occasion Bond's appearance changed and then one movie later changed back!!!!! All with no explanation!!!!

And that's without mentioning the 1967 Casino Royale, which had five James Bonds (of varied age, sex, eye colour) and a Jimmy in the same movie.

 

[Sector 7]

Explain this, Orci.

[Ricky] Orrrrrci! You got some 'splainin' to do! [/Ricky Ricardo]

 

[Therin of Andor]

Or maybe he just lost his tan being stuck on a planet without sunshine for 20 years.

Or a year in London.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I think that in old soap operas, when a character was recast, sometimes there'd just be an announcement saying "The part of Blah Blah will now be played by So-and-So" and that would be it.

I once saw an episode of a US daytime soap where the voiceover announcement said, "Today, due to illness, the role of Blah Blah will now be played by So-and-So".

Not so different to seeing the understudy on stage in the theatre.

 

[propita]

How about that Spock Prime has detached earlobes but nuSpock's earlobes are attached?




I know the credited response...different actors. But it was strange to see them side by side with different earlobes.

 

[sj4iy]

My explanation is damn, blue eyes are sexy.

That is all.

 

[Commishsleer]

How about that Spock Prime has detached earlobes but nuSpock's earlobes are attached?




I know the credited response...different actors. But it was strange to see them side by side with different earlobes.

Perhaps the explanation is the unfortunate accident that Spock had a child when his head was caught in a mechanical rice picker.

 

[F. King Daniel]

ouch!

 

[Belz...]

Like I keep saying -- in the movie, Spock Prime recognized Kirk and Scotty on sight. So in-universe, they look the same. Only the actors portraying them look different.

I wish Spock had sent Spock Prime a picture of Khan in the movie and he recognised him. That way the people who complain about the change in actor just couldn't.

 

[Belz...]

It's a personal pet peeve in any movie or series when appearance change isn't explained.

Yeah. I want to know why Tora Ziyal had TWO plastic surgeries in such a short time period.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think that Old Spock recognized Scotty on sight, when Simon Pegg looks nothing like James Doohan, says it all. Same characters, they look the same in-universe, they're just played by different actors.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Anyone else notice that Marcus is wearing colored contacts to make his eyes more striking?

 

[Belz...]

Well they wanted to have him wear his Robocop armor and make him more striking, but it wasn't subtle enough.

 

[Christopher]

Not so different to seeing the understudy on stage in the theatre.

Exactly. Sometimes you just have to accept that this is fiction performed by actors, that you're not watching real people doing real things. I once saw a local stage performance of Hamlet where Claudius was black even though his nephew Hamlet was white. They didn't insert any lines to explain it, didn't address it in any way; they just trusted the audience to understand the difference between an actor and the character he was portraying.

 

[BillJ]

Maybe Cumberbatch really is John Harrison and Khan Noonien Singh? Born as Harrison then took on a Sikh name when he grew older?

 

[Belz...]

Interesting idea.