Star Trek: Picard

The music is really weird and intrusive and makes this feel like a modern BBC show like Sherlock

Sliding around on a Borg cube in your socks? No. That's not a thing.

When that bit happened my bf got a disgusted look on his face and muted the loud, overweening Titanic-romance music that started playing. BLEUGH what was the point of that scene. We get it, he's playing her.

But I'm enjoying this otherwise. I liked Seven's entrance, especially her falling down dizzily after she said it.

that scene was important to establish that there are still socks in the 24th century and it will pay off later in the show, possibly to universe-saving effect

Socks: check.
Zippers: GTFO.

Narek is the worst

i thought that too but then there was that scene with his horny sister and now she is the worst

I want to give Narek a fucking shower, he looks blegh.

http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/Pair_of_socks_575.jpg

*sets fire to own brain*

I share this important report.

#Picard is a tv show this is my report about it

it has many themes, such as the following pic.twitter.com/VnOVL5TqGU

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 18, 2020

Yeah, as much as the Han Solo McTerrible-Accents guy annoys me, he is super hot.

picard's undercover werner herzog impression is, like this show as a whole, bad

I thought he was sounding like a bad French stereotype, not a German one? Need to relisten

he was going for french and landed on herzog-in-jack-reacher imo

lol tranya

honh honh honh I have ze borg!

that was a really bizarre episode. parts of it were laughably bad - the lizard guy with the keen sense of smell seemed like he wandered in from The Orville

and no idea what they were thinking with Picard's accent unless it was some sort of Holy Grail/Pink Panther tribute

that lady had a pretty bad security system

anyway this episode was Good because it was narek-and-twinless and with luck we've fulfilled our raffi backstory requirement

do we see the painting again

the painting . . . lives

Prior art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ewVNIvKBh0

the painting was pretty good if you stack it up against Data’s other artistic pursuits imo

that lady had a pretty bad security system

you mean vajayzle?

"once zey get ze borg inside zem zey are never going back"

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omg this is the slowest-paced nonsense i've ever watched and i've seen wavelength

So... this is baf?

Bad!

gotta feel bad for brian brophy, who has now costarred as dr bruce maddox in both one of the greatest hours of television ever broadcast and whatever this pantomime nonsense was

it is both bad not good and good not bad imo

baf not goof

baffe growing vpon the measure of a man

counterpoint: it’s nonsense and weird and a missed opportunity, but I’ve enjoyed every episode

im still watching it but it's SO SLOW

wow bizarro

hes a genius but dont tell him i said

i think it’s pretty good but what do i know

last ep was pure fetch quest, didn't advance the story (except for the last two minutes), dispensed with characters and locations we'd been led to expect more from, indulged in shallow world building, and was basically lacking in action, excitement, intrigue, moral dilemmas, blah blah. sorry but that's just how i feel. will keep watching.

tfw acclaim for yr genius finally arrives but it hinges on arcane knowledge of not just star trek but also one thread on one specific web forum’s one hidden board :/

i’m enjoying the show a fair bit despite its flaws and weird pacing but i think if you’re not already invested in picard as a character it’s probably not got a huge amount to offer

you mean vajayzle?

Aaraghh I was going to make this joke!

I thought this was a terribly written and executed episode, I think they wanted to go for a TOS-style goofiness with the stuff on Freecloud but at the same time bookend it with NOT YER GRANNY'S TREK cynicism and grossout dismemberment while also peppering with bad backstory and throwaway lines from useless appendages (sorry Elrond).

BTW they recast Maddox, who is now played by Jordan Peterson.

Oh the exposition in the beginning (Raffi and Rios talking about ex-Borgs) was shamefully clumsy. "Oh how ever did I forget that Picard used to be a Borg, oh ho ho!"

I'm not sure how I feel about the Mr. Mot and Quark "cameos."

"once zey get ze borg inside zem zey are never going back"

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― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:33 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel we're not paying enough attention to this very remarkable line :( :( :(

BTW they recast Maddox, who is now played by Jordan Peterson.

"once zey get ze borg inside zem zey are never going back"

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I would love to hear Eric Cantona read this line.

Yeah I was enjoying this but that last episode was arse.
The guy Vajayzle (lol) butchered - that was the kid from last season Voyager, right? The other rescued borg kid?
- why didnt they use the same actor for him?
- ditto Bruce Maddox?
- why is this storyline so disjointed? I am struggling to follow it, there are competing motivations flying all over the place and somehow it makes it feel too rapid-paced and yet getting nowhere all at once.

BTW I have no problem with the violence/gore in the show and all the purists wailing "this is a UTOPIA not a DYSTOPIA" I shrug at, but... yeah this feels rushed and clumsy all over somehow.

Maybe Stewart spent too long on shows like Blunt Talk and thinks he's funnier now ;)

Oh and some things I noticed:
- the comment "whats her name, something like... 99, or 11?" - assming that was a bit of a clumsy lol ref to 99 from get smart, and 11 from stranger things?
- them having to kick and punch away all the holo spam in the ship. I feel like they ripped that wholesale off a scene in Futurama when they all go into the "Internet".

I feel like they ripped that wholesale off a scene in Futurama

lol