(Sorry, not sorry for the old yet still valid meme)
I just wanted everyone here to know that [email protected] has been taken over relaunched by me and will become an active community again!
In the name of interplanetary peace, everyone here is invited to sub if you have not already done so and to start posting whatever news/discussion/memes related to The Orville you can think of.
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Happy Arbor Day! (No, seriously, the 25th of April is actually Arbor Day.)
Yeah, how dare those artists do their jobs! I can’t stand this sentiment. Times and technology change, and so designs can change because of that. Yes they ham fisted an explanation witht the ENT arc. But like, should we go back to the racist Asian caricature based look? People who can’t separate the stories from the fact that their real productions that have to actually exist in reality don’t deserve Star Trek.
You can change costumes and makeup without completely changing unnecessary parts.
Klingons went from being established as clearly mammalian and very hairy to a completely different reptilian-in-appearance species (also with an entirely different culture but let’s ignore that), then back to mammalian.
They also made significant changes to Andorians. The hair, facial structure, skin tones, and antennae changed, but they were still clearly Andorians, so nobody cared. If they made them red with yellow hair and a rhino horn instead of antennae then it would be rightly ridiculed.
The assertion that if you’re against what early DIS did to Klingons then you’re a racist who wants Asian caricatures is absolutely insane. What are you smoking?
The designs chosen for alien characters are based on the limitations and of the technology of their time, not just creative wants. You know why Klingons were so hairy up till disco? Because wigs were cheaper and look better on camera than full body prosthetics did. Remember the fish heads?
But now they have a lot better prosthetic technology so let’s reinterpret the designs for this new show. We can maintain the characteristics from the text but we can also change the things we did because they were more practical then.
But then we get to your last paragraph and you completely lose me. How you made that jump from what I said is just, bravo. 👏🏻 that’s some fancy gymnastics right there. Again, people who can’t understand that stories produced in live action actually have to exist in reality and make choices for practical and not just creative reasons are absolutely insufferable.
That is complete bullshit. Klingons were never designed to be reptilian. There have been reptilian races shown in Trek long before DIS.
Klingon design settled on how they look throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s because that’s what they wanted them to look like. They’re a hairy, mammalian species.
You can reinterpret without throwing away everything and making a clearly entirely different species. Like going from mammals to reptilians. And again don’t try to bullshit is into thinking making a reptilian species was impossible until 2017.
That’s exactly what you said. Your mental gymnastics is insane.
Jfc, there’s an insufferable person here and it’s certainly not me. You are the one who doesn’t understand.
Stop with this stupidity and mental gymnastics. It’s not impossible to make Klingons mammalian, because we’ve already done it for decades, and we again do it now.
Why are you lying by saying that the change was done for a “practical” reasons and that mammalian costume design “doesn’t exist in reality”?