Scuffles wrote:runsforcelery wrote:Prolong is going to be a problem and — at present — Evergreen is definitely planning on keeping it. Finding an actress in her 20s with the gravitas to play a starship captain in her mid-40s is going to be a nontrivial challenge. And it will also be a nontrivial challenge to do the number of movies they're hoping for without the aging of the characters becoming a factor. Like a lot of things in life, the best you can do is the best you can do, and that's what Evergreen intends to do. The very best they can.
Prolong was one of the other things I was wondering about for sure. It seems that you're going to have to find at least a handful of fairly young actors / actresses to get across the point of just how young some prolong recipients can look at times.
Prolong, especially the 3rd-gen variety, will indeed be one of the major issues. It might be best for it to be modified somewhat, "relax" the ages upward so the cast can be in their 20's and 30's and even 40's so it isn't quite so visually severe. Seriously, having ships crewed by adults who look like "a bunch of teenagers" is going to have credibility problems with the general masses. The fans of course will understand, but the uninitiated will most lkely think it to be silly, i.e. "teens in space". I applaud Evergreen for wanting to include prolong, but it might be one of those things that works far better in written form than a visual one.
). After all, it's a key component in the relations with Grayson. There's an opportunity to let the audience feel the same bewilderment that the Grayson themselves are supposed to experience. 
