He’s only ten years older than DeForest Kelly was in 1966. Of all the original main characters I accept having aged up actors, Bones is the one that I most easily accept.
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reddig33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thomas Jane seems a bit old to be playing Bones.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Scotty should be too though.
In TOS, he’s clearly 10 years older than Kirk. In SNW it looks like it’s the opposite!
And, to the extent that age of the actor implies the age of the character, Kelly and Doohan were about the same age.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Scotty should be too though.
Of all the original main characters I accept having aged up actors, Bones is the one that I most easily accept.
That doesn’t mean I need or want to accept other characters being aged up just to match. Bones being played by someone a little older is not a huge deal.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh, I agree. I just think having more age appropriate choices for other characters would have been nice too.
Spock and Uhura seem to be roughly the right ages for the time the show is set. But Kirk is too old (the actor hides it well, lucky bastard) and Scotty far too young.
And McCoy makes no sense if cast too young given the nature of his personality, relationship to Kirk, etc. So, like you, I would prefer to go older as opposed to too young, like they did with Scotty.
I think it’s the inconsistency that bugs me.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would prefer if he did, and it turned out it was all a deranged fanfic by Regemont Barkley.
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 days ago
Only a decade older than Kelley was.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
TOS starts way after SNW, so the actor playing bones for this series should be younger than Kelley, not ten years older. Unless the finale takes place years later. We’ll see.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We have to take into account that, generally speaking, a 50-year-old jobbing actor on low-budget TV in 1966 looked a good deal older than a 50-year-old Hollywood actor tends to look now. (Hell, I’m not that far from 50, not Hollywood glam by any stretch, and I still look noticeably younger than my boomer parents did at my age and way younger than my Depression-era grandparents looked at my age.)
Physically, under modern makeup, lighting, and filming, I could see this guy looking very similar in age to Kelley in TOS.
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 days ago
I was just pointing out an observation.
But hey… full grown adults used to be normally cast as teenagers.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
A time jump wouldn’t surprise me - IIRC, there were two three-month gaps in between episodes during season three.