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So... Picard. (no spoilers)
5 years ago
Finished up the ten-ep first season story and I... liked it, quite a bit, in fact, and don't regret shelling out six bucks a month for the privilege of viewing it. It ain't perfect for sure, and I could see the issues some would have with it, but it worked well for me as a post-TNG-era piece of storytelling and canon, though I'm probably too biased to say how well it works without any nostalgia goggles on.
If anyone's curious, as of this writing CBS is offering a month free trial for their All-Access. (in that 'remember to cancel before they start charging you' way), so you can check it out for yourself if so inclined. Worth a look IMO.
If anyone's curious, as of this writing CBS is offering a month free trial for their All-Access. (in that 'remember to cancel before they start charging you' way), so you can check it out for yourself if so inclined. Worth a look IMO.
"The opening of the fifth episode of Star Trek: Picard, “Stardust City Rag,” is brutal and unexpected. Viewers see a graphic scene that is, by all accounts, torture"
Just for example. I could have done without the rotting fox corpse, too.
I do see some of the criticisms, but I also see where they went very right.
From my point of view, Picard is a quite good sci-fi series, with a story that is quite well done, but it's not part of Star Trek, it just reuses elements from it.
Patrick Stewert and Jonathan Frakes also felt Roddenberry's idea of no human conflict made it more difficult to create a good show. Its why The Next Generation got better after Roddenberry died.
I will just say that, in my opinion, the Federation, and Starfleet, portrayed in Picard happily stomped on the established principles and guidelines that they've followed in TNG and struggled with in the trying times of DS9. Some of the major ethics questions that we've seen in several episodes have been thrown out the airlock without so much as a goodbye, and the way the Federation ties into all of this makes no sense whatsoever.
If it means the idea that a species would remain within a single political unit and ideal in the context of a sci-fi space or galaxy encompassing area (like Star Trek's Federation) I always thought that this was incredibly unrealistic, unless that species was under intense 1984 esque levels of totalitarian oversight (to the levels of attempting to eliminate 'thought-crime'). Even WH40k & Star Wars, not exactly series focused on realism, are more realistic in this regard, as even galaxy spanning governments in both these cases are shown to be in practise extremely de-centralised and politically diverse on regional and local levels, and even within the supposedly 'central' governments themselves.
On it she invited her to be part of season 2.
There were some solid episodes, but it was bogged down by a lot of wheel-spinning, an overarching plot that was somehow both overstuffed and undercooked, underdeveloped character relationships, and – most damningly – passive, incurious main characters who sat on their thumbs all too often while the secondary and tertiary characters made the decisions that actually pushed the story forward. The result was a season that had plenty of incident in it but often felt inert.
There's tons of nitpicky bullshit I could list, but why bother. By the time the big weepy scenes in the finale rolled around, I just couldn't get invested. It's a shame.
the picard seriewas diffrent from the other ST series, but it was ok
I think its a mess. It's taking a huge dump on a the lore of star trek by suddenly making the federation out to be the bad-guys.
So my main beef be that the usual Star Trek style of a bright and bold vision of the future has been... undone? It has a huge theme of anti-immigration, which feels completely out of left field for Star Trek, considering how many habitable planets the various crew have come across - it simply doesn't make sense!!!.
The federation is now magically hostile to outsiders, which makes no sense. TNG and whatnot used to be able to present social allegory and whatnot in a fair and neutral manner, often showing shades of grey, allowing viewers to enjoy a more nuanced experience. DS9 was great at this.
This show... is far more partisan. The anti-immigration federation is clearly the bad guys, the pro-immigration, pro-robot jokers are the good guys. It's moralising on a level usually not seen in star trek. Captain Picard used to be famous for his diplomatic and impartial approach to things - now... not to so much apparently.
In DS9 you have the bajorans and the cardassians - now that made for some really good shades of grey, often presenting problems and characters to the audience that made you understand that even a well-intentioned freedom fighter could also be a ruthless terrorist. That stuff worked.
This... ugh... not so much
He needs his own show. :)