Is it just me, or is this weird?
May. 5th, 2015 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI've finished Voyager. Before that I went through DS9, and now I'm going through Enterprise.
I often have trouble recognizing an actor from one show to another. And I have had trouble recognizing people in real life as well. But I'm starting to notice something bizarre. Put an actor in a lot of ridiculous makeup and prosthetics as an "alien" on one show, then move them to another show with an entirely different set of ridiculous makeup and prosthetics to be a different species of "alien" and I have no trouble identifying them.
That can not be normal.
(Take up the makeup entirely, and they're completely unidentifiable, as the Benny Russell episodes proved. You know, I linked to a piece on the Comics Code recently and was surprised to find that there was a pre-code comic about a black astronaut. Sadly, after the code came in, they couldn't republish it without whitewashing the protagonist. I mean, they did, but it ended badly for them.)
I often have trouble recognizing an actor from one show to another. And I have had trouble recognizing people in real life as well. But I'm starting to notice something bizarre. Put an actor in a lot of ridiculous makeup and prosthetics as an "alien" on one show, then move them to another show with an entirely different set of ridiculous makeup and prosthetics to be a different species of "alien" and I have no trouble identifying them.
That can not be normal.
(Take up the makeup entirely, and they're completely unidentifiable, as the Benny Russell episodes proved. You know, I linked to a piece on the Comics Code recently and was surprised to find that there was a pre-code comic about a black astronaut. Sadly, after the code came in, they couldn't republish it without whitewashing the protagonist. I mean, they did, but it ended badly for them.)
