A character without eyebrows was a mistake

[Trekker4747]

Does anyone else feel this way? Not being able to see an actor's eyebrows is just annoying, it's true that you really do see people's emotions etc through their eyes and Guinan always just felt absent to me because she didn't have eyebrows. How else am I supposed to know when she's surprised? Annoyed? Has her interest piqued? Why even create a character without eyebrows?

 

[sojourner]

I find most shows emotionless due to the lack of feet being shown. Feet are the true windows of the soul.

 

[MarsWeeps]

its true that you really do see people's emotions etc through their eyes and Guinan always just felt absent to me because she didn't have eyebrows.

Wow...all this time and I never realized Guinan didn't have eyebrows. I thought she projected her emotions just fine without them.

 

[Trekker4747]

I thought they were windows to the sole?

 

[Tosk]

Wow...all this time and I never realized Guinan didn't have eyebrows.

You know that Whoopi has no eyebrows though, right? Surely?

 

[MarsWeeps]

Wow...all this time and I never realized Guinan didn't have eyebrows.

You know that Whoopi has no eyebrows though, right? Surely?

Nope...I had no idea until I just looked up some pictures of her. Maybe it's because she has dark skin that I never noticed. Learn something new every day!!

 

[Gepard]

I find most shows emotionless due to the lack of feet being shown. Feet are the true windows of the soul.

Tarantino? Is that you?

 

[SonicRanger]

Did you really need to start a new thread to mock another poster's opinion, which is ultimately just as valid as yours? You voiced your opinion in that thread -- why start another to voice the same one?

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Eyes are the windows to the soul, not eyebrows.

 

[The Castellan]

Lack of eyebrows worked for Mona Lisa.

 

[sojourner]

^Not really. It's been debated for centuries whether or not she is happy in that image. Eyebrows (and feet) would have made the emotion much clearer.

 

[JB2005]

You can tell a lot from feet, a happy shoe can be a real give away!

 

[Trekker4747]

Personally, I'm all about the emotion conveyed through the nasal-labial trough.

 

[JB2005]

I don't know what that is, and I have a feeling it would be the best thing for my internet history if I didn't google it...

 

[Trekker4747]

It's nothing bad it's the "laugh lines" in your face, the "skin folds" or "trough" between your cheeks and mouth.

WIKI LINK

 

[JB2005]

Ahh...that's a relief! Though now I'm worried about the state of my mind!

 

[The Castellan]

^Not really. It's been debated for centuries whether or not she is happy in that image. Eyebrows (and feet) would have made the emotion much clearer.

Many theories of the Mona Lisa exist, including that the woman in the painting never even existed, amongst others, which I'll be more than happy to discuss over.

You can tell a lot from feet, a happy shoe can be a real give away!

stylish ones, anyhow.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Personally, I'm all about the emotion conveyed through the nasal-labial trough.

I had to do a double-take there as I thought we'd strayed back into camel-toe territory.

I did wonder if eyebrow signalling might be less important in communication between people with darker skin tones. However, this link suggests eyebrow flashing is universal although frowned on (sic) in Japan.

 

[Trekker4747]

Research shows me they're actually called "nasolabial" folds (or trough) but, eh. Same difference. Breaking the word down "naso"/"nasal" obviously refers to the nose and "labial" while a word that often is equated to female genitalia is also defined as a "lip or lip-like part" so in talking about laugh lines obviously the "lip-like part" is, well, your mouth. The "trough" or "fold" part obviously refers to "structure" of that part of the face.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Initially, I read "nasal-labial" as "navel-labial", which means that my mind must be deeply mired in the cloaca maxima.