Today's set pics made me so happy. DD is such handsome man... But Season 10 Mulder did not even come close to how he looks in a random candid. I don't know if it was too much makeup or weirdly styled hair or a combo of both, his look took me right out of it. Coupled with poor Gillian's tight wig face, it was not good. Season 11 is already infinitely better.
I totally agree with you. I think in S10 I was so focused on trying to feel OK with Gillian’s wig that I didn’t fully register it, but when I saw those pics of DD on set yesterday I was like AAAAAHHHH SO MUCH BETTER!! And exactly -- I would look at S10 Mulder and be like “well you know, David has gotten older, he’s not going to look like he did in Season 4; he still looks pretty damn good.” But then I’d see a candid of him on the street three months later and be like HNNNNGGGGGHHH.
So...I do think a lot of it may have been the hair. I haven’t had a moment to go look closely at S10 Mulder pics and compare to the set photos, but I do feel in retrospect like his hair was kind of weird last time. And I also agree about the makeup, as I’ve said. There was a lot on Gillian but there was a lot on David as well, and I’m sure that was an artistic choice by someone and you can’t always know how these things are going to look in the finished product, of course, but anyway, I’m hoping that after seeing it on TV a decision has been made to dial that back for both of them (seeing that pic of Gillian has given me hope there).
I’m honestly kinda blown away by the revelation that she was wearing a wig at least some of the time on Hannibal and I never realized. So here’s hoping that the “wig face” issue will also be overcome this year, since CLEARLY, IT IS POSSIBLE.
I love my babies no matter what they look like, of course -- but it really is frustrating when they look so fabulous literally all the time EXCEPT when they are made up for the camera on my favorite show. It’s just like, why? How did you even manage to DO that?