April 23, 2022

[hughville]

Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz admitted their biggest Season Two regret was the tasing of August in Selfless, Brave and True. As the episode was being written, they thought Tamara needed to use a real world weapon, so they picked a taser. Eddy explains that they "figured the audience assumed it wasn't a taser... but they didn't", so fans began to give them history lessons about wood and conducting electricity. Eddy adds that if he could change it, he would pick a glowing syringe that Tamara would have shoved into the Dragon and August.
For the scenes with a wooden August, Eion Bailey wore a green SFX hood and motion capture dots on his face.

Comments

[sparkythegeek]

Hahaha, I remember Twitter blowing up about her tasering wood. That was super lame.

Cool to know how they did the digital effect for his face, though! I always wondered (and never looked it up).

Ugh, I HATED Tamara. I've seen the actress is on one of the newer Star Trek shows and I literally can't watch it because all I see is Tamara. >:

[hughville]

I can't watch the new Trek for the same reason. She is probably a very nice person but I just see Tamara. Blech.