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."
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 22 February 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
"once zey get ze borg inside zem zey are never going back"
:0
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:33 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
feel we're not paying enough attention to this very remarkable line :( :( :(
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
BTW they recast Maddox, who is now played by Jordan Peterson.
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 22 February 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
I would love to hear Eric Cantona read this line.
― trishyb, Monday, 24 February 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
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 ;)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
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".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
I feel like they ripped that wholesale off a scene in Futurama
lol
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 03:12 (four years ago) link
Oh chut up :P
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
"they don't change! they metastasize!"
― mark s, Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
all the young ppl running and jlp wobbling along behind :|
― mark s, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
What did you think of the painting in this week's episode?
Honestly, Soji should've known that something was wrong with her, because what adult decorates their rooms with their own childhood drawings?
I have a feeling that many viewers wouldn't mind Elrond in-butting them, amirite?
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
wait i missed the painting! i was making supper and not paying full attention all the time
― mark s, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
― mark s
with his violin
i feel like recasting this character as jonathan frakes was a good idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-aZVcG-jM
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
given how slooooooow the action still is, it was very lucky that the big encounter came in exactly the right 90 seconds to enable a way out
also lol this ep had several bodged echoes of firefly and serenity (which for my sins i know much better than TNG)
― mark s, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/0ySDGO5
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 29 February 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
I am so bored by this show now. If they don't bring on new writers for season two and improve it massively, I won't bother with it.
― trishyb, Saturday, 29 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I think I’m done with it.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 1 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
what this tale needs more of: "the fabric is ripped you jean luc picard motherfuckers"
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
As a Tolkienian Trekkie this makes me very happy and it cannot be an accident. #StarTrekPicard pic.twitter.com/spMERFQ6SP— Sara for Warren 2020 👊🏻 (@SaraMichener) March 1, 2020
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
Riker in his pizza ranch >>> Kirk in his Nexus ranch
― stet, Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
Mr Veg and I got into the *dumbest* argument about Riker’s pizza oven that ended with him texting me a still from the episode to prove he was right. 🤓I still am enjoying this show btw. I dont mind the slow pacing, there’s just something about that is really kinda nice
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
why is this how she finds out, old man, you need yr shiny head slappin
― mark s, Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
picard is solving galactic politics by visiting everyone's house one by one
― mark s, Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
things data wanted: a) datadaughter feat.mucusb) be worst painter
― mark s, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/a40eae20c92e62c96f2417fcf1019cff/tumblr_nn5jvxmnFp1sxq4hio1_1280.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
the telltale Data head tilt
― mh, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
he's in her dna apparently
― mark s, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
Poor Marina Sirtis, after nearly 30 years she still can't get dialogue that isn't cringeworthy.
Picard's characterization is really weird! Maybe it's a function of being out of circulation for so long but in his TNG days he would never resort to mockery and sarcasm with someone who was suffering from severe self-doubt, not for cheap lolz. And of course his clapping after Raffi's performance was sooo corny, and not in a TNG way.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
And yes I remember that Picard from season 1-2 was a dick but we all try to forget that.
Anyway: https://www.startrek.com/videos/watch-how-to-make-bunnicorn-pizza-from-star-trek-picard
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
Caught up with the last two episodes last night...I mean, I'm all about hanging out in rustic California locations because that's where most of the series have filmed on location anyway, but would chill over pizza anytime with that crew. There's definitely an odd choppiness in the editing, though; I almost wonder if they wouldn't've been better off just having the other stuff be at the start and end of the episode and otherwise just relaxed on Nepenthe. Actress who played the daughter (Kestra?) pretty solid, that's classic awkward/friendly stuff.
Building off of that Tolkien name tweet, BIG subplot all about subcreation, conlang etc. there with the dead son's interests.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
in that case i desire dragons with a profound desire
― mark s, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
So you're the guy.
Also just stumbled on a reminder as to why Kestra is named Kestra -- that's the name of Troi's sister who drowned as a young girl, as retold in a season seven TNG episode.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
my takeaway from the most recent ep is that much as JLP can be annoying, riker is still much more annoying
― mark s, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Nothing has changed then
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
lol/yikes at the head tilt thing
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
I watched the first 4 episodes and I didn't like anything. I think I'm done.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 06:24 (four years ago) link
even in a cabin in the middle of the woods, they managed to squeeze in a "shields up! red alert!" scene for riker.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I've been mostly happy with Picard in that it hasn't reverted to pandering to people nostalgic for TNG (I'm a fan of it too, but couldn't care less about this kind of fanservice), but they finally caved in and did a full episode of it. If it wasn't for Troi and Riker's kid, who was pretty awesome, and her interactions with Soji, this episode would've been completely pointless. Let's just hope this was the last bit of fanservice they had in store and now they can focus on the actual main plot of the series, which still seems pretty interesting, as slow-moving as it is.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 07:23 (four years ago) link
not too clear on how our heroes suddenly and magically realized the entire plot, but i guess some stuff happened
liked the octonary star system idea
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
"unknown dark power shows up when you do <X>" is kind of like first contact, but is a lot more like the later Expanse books
― mh, Friday, 13 March 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
a bit cixin liu too
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
i'm only three episodes in and I find this kind of a warm and comfortable sweater of a show, but it's weird how much the interiors just look like CB2.
― akm, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
which I guess is maybe better than 'all the interiors look like a modern dentist office' of TNG
― akm, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
"what you are about to endure will drive some of you mad"
*viewers nod glumly*
― mark s, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
a cool thing is that the hologram can do every possible accent!
a less cool thing is that the actor playing the hologra
― mark s, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
i ken
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
the accents.
― Fizzles, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
thats gotta be the worst attempt at a scottish accent I've heard in a long while, kind of fitting that it was from a Star Trek engineer
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 14 March 2020 08:22 (four years ago) link