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Not until CGI aliens with non-humanoid body plans become cheaper than masks on human actors.
by azernik 7y ago
Not until CGI aliens with non-humanoid body plans become cheaper than masks on human actors.
- koheripbal 7y agoIt's the relatability to the audience that mandates they have human faces. ... because humans can only interpret the facial expressions and emotions of other human faces. Star Trek was never meant to be Sci-fi so much as soap opera in space.
- outworlder 7y agoCounter-example: https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Yaphit https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Yaphit
- karlshea 7y agoI don't really think that's a counter-example, the face and body animations are all very human-like.
- azernik 7y agoFarscape did pretty well with having relatable characters played by puppets.
- simcop2387 7y agoI'd agree, but the faces of all the regular characters were very human-esque. Even Pilot's face was puppetted to react vaguely human.
- azernik 7y agoStill a very big departure from humans with masks.
- DonHopkins 7y agoNot just puppets but muppets! https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape
- Razengan 7y ago> because humans can only interpret the facial expressions and emotions of other human faces. Arrival was pretty good in showing actually alien aliens (while falling into the trope of godlike aliens). Watch some octopus videos. You may get a sense of a certain connection, empathy, between sentients that transcends our physical forms.
- ldng 7y agoStar Trek was ever meant to be Sci-fi (search how Roddenberry and Asimov became friend). Soap opera in space is what CBS want it to become because it is so mush easier to write for (see Kurtzman-verse).
- Insanity 7y agoMaybe, but in animated things (like rick and morty) they, occasionally, have aliens that are vaguely essentially anthropomorphic animals and give those expressions. So it's not entirely.. human. My point being that we can have the expressions of a human face on a non-human face
- Razengan 7y ago> My point being that we can have the expressions of a human face on a non-human face To bring up the example of the octopus again, you can still get some sense of "expression" like anger etc. when they change their skin colors, without having a relatable face at all. Or something more common: Dogs wagging their tails, cats pointing their ears, and so on.
- koheripbal 7y agoDogs and cats only work for us because we're already so familiar with those.
- remarkEon 7y agoAren't we already there?