Those looks in the 80s & 90s were designed for SD broadcast on CRT televisions. Today's 4K HDR TVs are substantially better in every way. You don't need to push the makup as far for it to look good.

Also tastes have changed. In the 80s and 90s bold colorful looks were much more common and popular. Today, not so much. The trend is for natural looking makup. Shows and movies reflect the tastes of their time.

So yah, TV character makup has changed a lot over the last 35 years.

save

path: 0 24140729, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 4

cuchi 1 point 2 months ago

For good or for bad?

save

path: 0 24140729 24146497, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 2

Steve 2 points 2 months ago

Well that's a stylistic choice. It doesn't matter really, does it?

save

path: 0 24140729 24146497 24148473, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1

cuchi 1 point 2 months ago

"It doesn’t matter really".

I was not complaining, just asking. 😀

save

path: 0 24140729 24146497 24148473 24158170, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

Kirk 1 point 2 months ago

Eh, you're not wrong but OP also picked a bad example.

save

path: 0 24140729 24145933, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

IcedRaktajino 8 points 2 months ago

I loved PIC S3 and definitely seeing Ro Laren again, but yeah, I did notice the makeup was a lot more subtle than in her TNG appearances.

Now I wonder if it was always supposed to be that subtle but had to be "exaggerated" a bit back then to show up on older TVs. Kind of like how the Addams Family set was mostly pink so it appeared correctly on old black and white TV sets.

save

path: 0 24139967, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 7

blackbeans 5 points 2 months ago

Not so sure about that. Actually tv in the '90s was not that bad. In terms of resolution it looked similar to 480p video, but without any artifacts. Furthermore due to the nature of how a CRT works, those tvs actually had less motion blur than flat screens.

save

path: 0 24139967 24140329, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 6

atomicbocks 6 points 2 months ago

TNG and DS9 (and early Voyager) episodes were mastered to Beta tapes which had a best case functional resolution of 280p. This is why the TNG Blu-ray’s took so much effort and why they haven’t done Blu-ray’s of DS9 or Voyager, there aren’t film masters to scan they have to be recreated from the original negatives.

save

path: 0 24139967 24140329 24141695, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 5

blackbeans 4 points 2 months ago

Beta tapes are 480i, 720x480 interlaced

That's more than enough resolution to clearly identify faces.

save

path: 0 24139967 24140329 24141695 24141994, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 3

atomicbocks 3 points 2 months ago

Only ED-Beta was capable of that and it wasn’t released until after TNG was on the air.

The GameBoy Advance had a 240x160 resolution and they released video carts for that. I wasn’t saying it was too low to see faces, just commenting on the technical details of TNG, etc.

save

path: 0 24139967 24140329 24141695 24141994 24142266, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2

Jason2357 3 points 2 months ago

God I love nerds. Have all my upvotes.

save

path: 0 24139967 24140329 24141695 24151729, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0

Date	Episode	Title
08-20	SNW 4x05	"Level-Five Transporter Accident"
08-27	SNW 4x06	“Off-Hour”
09-03	SNW 4x07	“Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”
09-10	SNW 4x08	“Orders of Magnitude”
09-17	SNW 4x09	"Once La’An a Time"

Date	Episode	Title
08-20	SNW 4x05	"Level-Five Transporter Accident"
08-27	SNW 4x06	“Off-Hour”
09-03	SNW 4x07	“Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”
09-10	SNW 4x08	“Orders of Magnitude”
09-17	SNW 4x09	"Once La’An a Time"