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Originally Posted by timun
Haha, I noticed his name in the credits, and went "Hmm, wait a minute... was he the Klingon captain with the eyepatch?" Very cool that they're still finding ways to include him.
That said it raises a nitpicky thing I've been thinking this season... I like that they went back to a TNG/DS9/VOY look for the Klingons. It was the best interpretation of them, and there's no reason to mess with that success. However, the quality of the make-up and costumes seems a lot cheaper than it was back in the day. I keep noticing that the make-up is much more uniformly applied across the actors' faces and it makes them look less real.
'New' vs. 'old':
Ultimately we know they're just guys with some rubber #### on their foreheads, but the Gowron makeup has a bit of a sheen on it that makes it look more like real skin, with real skin oils.
The Klingon costumes also looked a lot more like plastic pieces with shiny paint on them. They didn't look substantial:
Maybe just a concession to make them lighter, so that the actors could dance in them...? I'd like to think that. |
I do wonder how much of the difference is in pigmentation and how the SNW makeup applications are a little more robust, and less just turtle heads. I'm willing to guess too that the lighter pigmentation of the applications is to match closer to the actor's natural skin tone for reasons I don't think we need to litigate here.