On Recasting

This is an unfortunately common part of TV. Well, it’s common, but thankfully, it doesn’t happen that much. Sometimes a character is played by multiple actors throughout their time on a show. It can often be annoying in many ways. Sometimes, they look nothing like the previous version of the character. And if it is a voice role, they can sound different as well instead of the same.

 

While this is always annoying, it can often be unavoidable at times. Unless we want to say goodbye to the character itself, we may have to say hello to a new actor doing them. Often, it may only work that way. The show Arthur relies on some characters being played by kids so they get new kids to do the voices when the old ones grow up. Its problem was that the new voices don’t sound the same to the old one. It was often annoying. Buster has always sounded the same on that show on all the episodes of it that I have watched. Why does Arthur sound different?

 

Now while I and many people understandably don’t like recasting, it can often be hard to stop watching a show because of it. Jane the Virgin had interesting plots that I wasn’t wanting to miss. I liked the show of Modern Family enough to not care when Lily was played by a new person. It’s not like the old actress had much of a role on the show before she took over. Often the people recast are very minor to the point where it doesn’t matter. Sometimes they do a good job recasting that you don’t even notice at first or at all that someone is different on that show.

 

What can happen is that the show can be creative with how they do it, giving it interesting props when they do it. In the show Dynasty, for instance, they had the character’s face be put in a fire, giving it a good reason why this character would eventually have a new face later played by a different actress. On the show Black Lightning, the character exploded in space, but was put back together, albeit with a different appearance. That was a creative way of doing things. If they can acknowledge it in a fun and believable way, then it can be nice to see their take on it. If they look alike to their old self, then one may not notice at all that a recast took place at all.

 

Other times, they are very poor and doing it. When American Housewife recast Anna-Kat, it was the first time that I ever stopped watching a show because of a recast. The new Anna-Kat looked nothing like the old one and didn’t seem right based on the one episode I saw of the show after it happened. When you see the first season of Last Man Standing, you will notice that the oldest daughter looks nothing like how she looks in later seasons. They also rapidly aged the son too, which is kind of dumb but not worth talking about as much in this post, even though it always leads to recasts.

 

There’s not much else to mention in this post. I don’t have much else to talk about and really need to get done with other posts that take more time and effort into doing. I will not be doing one of the things that I like to do having once again ran out of time for it. Plus, I wouldn’t know what I would have done this time around for it anyways. But I do need to spend the time doing these big posts at some point in the near future to ensure that they get done. Stay tuned for them later.