• Flying SquidOPM
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      111 month ago

      They had a reputation of saving money whenever they possibly could, which is why not just animation is re-used constantly in TAS to a ridiculous degree, but animations of characters are regularly just slightly changed to turn them into “new” characters. Someone else shared a meme this morning with the “transporter chief” that was basically Scotty except they replaced the hair and gave him a giant ridiculous mustache.

      TAS’ advantage over other Filmation shows was having a handful of TOS actors and TOS writers working on it. The rest of them? The voices and the writing are pretty much all terrible.