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Say, that's right.
If they leave Old Lace out of it, then 0/10, worst show of the year. I mean, why in the world would you pass up the chance to have a dinosaur in your story?
Joking aside, though, I could see that CGI being difficult to pull off on a TV show's budget. I suppose if it's a choice between leaving her out of it, or having incredibly obvious and jarring CGI in every scene, maybe the former would be preferable?
Still hope they're able to do it, though.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Animatronics, goddamn it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this series doesn't have the budget for CG or animatronics, but it's a pet peeve of mine that CG has supplanted a lot of these tried-and-true special effects methods that are honestly way better now than when they were in common use.
That being said— Karolina and Old Lace are the two big things I can imagine eating into their effects budget, plus the Leapfrog (if and when that shows up) and the Steins' other gadgets, and the Staff of One, although like Molly's superstrength, there are ways around deploying flashy CG effects which they'd be pretty justified in taking, especially while Nico's just starting out with the staff. If they're careful, I'm hoping we can still get Old Lace at some point. Even if not necessarily in every episode.
I wouldn't be surprised if they at least tease Old Lace for a while. The occasional hint at her presence, a sinister hiss from offscreen, that sort of thing.
Also, Supergirl was able to do a pretty damn cool looking Martian Manhunter (though they use his true form sparingly, presumably for budgetary reasons), so it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could do Old Lace.
The Staff of One probably wouldn't be too difficult, though. It's just a big metal stick, and the CGI needed for the magic effects seems like it would be fairly standard stuff.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."I wonder how they'll do the Gibborim, if they do them at all. Fifty-foot cow-god men might be a bit of a stretch for a Hulu original's budget, especially when saddled with the additional task of having them not look patently ridiculous in live action.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Remember the video Every Frame a Painting did a few month ago? The one about why the music in the MCU is not memorable? Well, a number of other content creator did reactions to this video. And I found all those reactions and thoughts so interesting, that I did a compilation of them, and then provided my own thoughts about the matter. The end result was a really long article, but if you are interested, you can read it here:
https://swanpride3.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/marvel-musings-do-you-know-the-score/
...I wonder if Baby Groot (through Rocket) will have an actual Precision F-Strike in the movie proper.
Oh God! Natural light!@Swanpride: would it be OK with you if I translate your article to Spanish? I have a friend who's doing some work on music in film and this may help her, but she doesn't know English well enough to read it on her own.
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVShe's fine.
She's used to things
◊ knocking her silly out of nowhere.
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@IF Wanderer Feel free to do so...just link back to my version should you publish it on the net. I'll link back.
Don't like the song (honestly, what is it with Marvel that they keep changing the songs they use for the marketing)...love the scenes they used. Still laughing about the "I tried".

I always thought that the time travellers overlapped a lot with Chase's parents who are just more generic mad scientists.