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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. Please, no.

The Picard show was already dreadfully bad and has effectively destroyed TNG and Q for me, please let the dead body rest on piece, no more.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did you watch Season 3 of Picard?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Season 3 worked because of the ensemble cast, though. The first two where it was "Picard and Friends" felt weird, and not like what anyone really wanted, and if this is another "Just Picard" thing it's likely to end up the same.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I agree. Picard Season 3 felt like it should have been the final TNG movie, but I'm actually glad it was episodic since it gave better pacing for gathering the cast together.

It was a lot of fam service, but in a good way imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's dreadful. Just gathering up the old cast for nostalgia sake. Quite an anticlimactic resolution to the enemy fight too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

That's fair. I enjoyed it, but I can see why you wouldn't. Hopefully we can agree at least 3 was better than 1 & 2.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm OK with this, people shit on Star Trek Picard but I still thought it was alright despite the departure from more traditional Trek.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I watched the first season and liked it. The fan service didn't feel so bad (I enjoyed it!). Season twos portrayal by half way through of an old enemy felt too casual to me and I tapped out. Is season 3 worth a whirl of two stopped me?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

The third season isn't as good as 1 but its clear and away better than 2 by a huge margin and has some extremely fantastic emotional payoffs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope this is his swan song. Patrick Stewart is amazing, and I love Captain Picard, but he's not Harrison Ford. The franchise will be fine without him. We don't need to play out Too Short a Season in real life

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Three seasons of PIC were already a mistake. The only good thing coming from it is the possibility of a Riker cooking/baking show (which I would totally watch).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In rewatching the original series and TNG thereafter, the consistent factor, regardless of the early special effects, was the scripts. The dialogue was always great. In ST: Picard, the dialogue is trash.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything about ST Picard is trash. Dialogue, script, Character behavior, 50 years of fransche history ignored, it was all written and executed by people who don't like star Trek, cast excluded though I just don't understand why any of the vast was on board with this turd. We're they so desperate for money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

it's even worse than that they write characters that are not in the world of star trek but written like they are fans of the star trek. that might work for a comedy like lower decks but it stunts growth of the franchise.

since we can't make new stories or ask new questions. They are just stuck in a circle of reference and the bare minimum of a story / scavenger hunt to get to those references. Terry Matalas has said this himself.

But hey at least we have unedited versions of the originals unlike star wars and I hope all the actors got big paydays in their golden years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You know they have to use the bridge a lot more than one single episode. It was always part of the plan.