Drahk
The people who made Babylon 5 always did an excellent job on the effects. Even when you could tell it was CGI, it didn't matter, because it was good enough that the excellent story made us ignore the effects. (Though I have had a lot of fun, this time around, spotting who amongst one race played another. Like the Narn character who was obviously played by the same man who played a lot of the speaking Drazi characters. He has a distinctive voice.)
Except in one case: the Drahk. Now, the Drahk were supposed to be the apprentices of the Shadows, making them Big Scary Evil, right? Well, when we see them... the makeup is a joke, and looks like a bad Halloween costume. As if to try to cover their mistake, and apparently inspired by the fact that we almost never saw the Shadows more than a little, they made the Drahk all blurry, like they were always moving really fast even when they were standing still. This was a mistake, because it makes the Drahk look even cornier than they would have anyway. And as if those two mistakes weren't bad enough, the actors playing the Drahk made them constantly in motion, like they had ADHD or something and couldn't hold still. This had the appearance of someone harmless trying to look scary and failing miserable. All in all, I would not be afraid of a Drahk if I met one in a dark alley; I would laugh. Hell, Vir Cotto is scarier than the Drahk!
But those one-eyed tentacle monsters that sit on people's shoulders and pull their strings... THOSE are terrifying.
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Except in one case: the Drahk. Now, the Drahk were supposed to be the apprentices of the Shadows, making them Big Scary Evil, right? Well, when we see them... the makeup is a joke, and looks like a bad Halloween costume. As if to try to cover their mistake, and apparently inspired by the fact that we almost never saw the Shadows more than a little, they made the Drahk all blurry, like they were always moving really fast even when they were standing still. This was a mistake, because it makes the Drahk look even cornier than they would have anyway. And as if those two mistakes weren't bad enough, the actors playing the Drahk made them constantly in motion, like they had ADHD or something and couldn't hold still. This had the appearance of someone harmless trying to look scary and failing miserable. All in all, I would not be afraid of a Drahk if I met one in a dark alley; I would laugh. Hell, Vir Cotto is scarier than the Drahk!
But those one-eyed tentacle monsters that sit on people's shoulders and pull their strings... THOSE are terrifying.
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1104524.html
You can comment either here or there.