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In the first scene, the mid-sixties looking Armistice Officer is played by then 31-year-old Ryan Robbins. The part has no lines and the character never appears again (though the actor appears again playing a different part in Caprica).

Can anyone explain why they cast a younger actor and aged him with makeup versus simply casting an actor in his mid-fifties?

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    Followup question: why did the cyclons send a delegation to Armistice Station just to blow it up moments later? – stannius May 08 '17 at 22:45
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    @stannius - It might be worth you asking your own question :-) – Greenonline May 09 '17 at 10:15
  • In-universe answer please! – npst May 09 '17 at 16:15
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    Uh, I think that the in-universe answer is that he was OLD – Chris B. Behrens May 09 '17 at 16:21
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    @npst How could this have an in-universe answer when it's not an in-universe question? Specifically, the age of the actor can't be an in-universe fact. – Todd Wilcox May 09 '17 at 20:45
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    @ToddWilcox: I suspect that npst was making a joke. :-) – ruakh May 10 '17 at 04:18
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    @stannius: If I were functionally immortal (guaranteed resurrection with full memory retention), there's no real drawback to it (resource wastage is negligible). Maybe they wanted a front row seat to the turning point in what was going to be a historic event. – Flater May 10 '17 at 09:14
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    @stannius perhaps they wanted to make certain everyone was there. This isn't the sort of thing you get a second chance at. – Paul Draper May 10 '17 at 17:00

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There is a deleted scene where he is shown going to the station each year, but the Cylons never show up. The passage of time is shown by him aging each time...when they didn't include most of this, they were left with the scene with the age made-up actor.

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