This Surprised Me

I was tooling through part of "Court Martial" checking
something out (fodder for future use and, quoting a
notorious friend, no, I'm not obsessed, I'm focused)
when I noticed something odd. The song lyric that
popped into my head at the time was, "Yeah, buddy,
that's his own hair."

I appears that in a few scenes, and possibly a lot of
this episode, what we were seeing was Ed Bishop's hair
bleached. What first caught my attention was the
waves on the side of his head. The scene where I am
most certain of it comes up right after Paul has been
convicted. Alec and Straker are talking in Straker's
office about how Paul was convicted on negatives. Not
only is Straker's hair wavy, but you can see the
dreaded dark roots where the hair has split above his
ear.

My first thought was that it was fill in shot during
Confetti Check, but there are problems with that idea.
First, the hair cut doesn't match Confetti Check. In
Court Martial it is long a curling at the bottom, down
on his collar. In Confetti Check, the back was cut to
make it more believable as a military haircut (still
too long in the front, though). The second question
is why it is already grown out at the roots.

Any info I don't know about?

Diorite

Hmm. Looks as if I'll have to look at my DVDs again, to check this out. IIRC this was mentioned a month or so ago, wasn't it? It's interesting to see things like this - I nearly called them "bloopers" but would changing hairstyles count as such?

Diorite Gabbro <[hidden email]> wrote: I was tooling through part of "Court Martial" checking
something out (fodder for future use and, quoting a
notorious friend, no, I'm not obsessed, I'm focused)
when I noticed something odd. The song lyric that
popped into my head at the time was, "Yeah, buddy,
that's his own hair."

I appears that in a few scenes, and possibly a lot of
this episode, what we were seeing was Ed Bishop's hair
bleached. What first caught my attention was the
waves on the side of his head. The scene where I am
most certain of it comes up right after Paul has been
convicted. Alec and Straker are talking in Straker's
office about how Paul was convicted on negatives. Not
only is Straker's hair wavy, but you can see the
dreaded dark roots where the hair has split above his
ear.

My first thought was that it was fill in shot during
Confetti Check, but there are problems with that idea.
First, the hair cut doesn't match Confetti Check. In
Court Martial it is long a curling at the bottom, down
on his collar. In Confetti Check, the back was cut to
make it more believable as a military haircut (still
too long in the front, though). The second question
is why it is already grown out at the roots.

Any info I don't know about?

Diorite




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> Any info I don't know about?

No, you know as much (likely more!) than anyone else.
Perhaps something went wrong with Ed's wig and for some
reason they needed to re-dye it for parts of this episode?
I mean, I assume they also re-dyed it for the flashbacks
in CONFETTI CHECK A-OK and THE LONG SLEEP?

Marc

--- Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

We know they started out bleaching Ed's hair, then
went to a wig. From all appearances, they also
bleached his hair blond for Confetti Check and The
Long Sleep. It's just weird here. Court Martial is
listed as having been shot 2 episodes before Confetti
Check, so is too early to start bleaching it for that.
Once I noticed the persistent natural wave, I checked
and it appears that for most of this episode he wasn't
wearing a wig. I hadn't expected that at all. In the
episode filmed in between, Court Martial and Confetti
Check its the wig as usual. Weirdness.

Diorite