Star Trek: Picard

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

Oh chut up :P

"they don't change! they metastasize!"

all the young ppl running and jlp wobbling along behind :|

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?

wait i missed the painting! i was making supper and not paying full attention all the time

all the young ppl running and jlp wobbling along behind :|

― 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

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)

https://imgur.com/0ySDGO5

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.

I think I’m done with it.

what this tale needs more of: "the fabric is ripped you jean luc picard motherfuckers"

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

<3

Riker in his pizza ranch >>> Kirk in his Nexus ranch

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

why is this how she finds out, old man, you need yr shiny head slappin

picard is solving galactic politics by visiting everyone's house one by one

things data wanted:
a) datadaughter feat.mucus
b) be worst painter

https://66.media.tumblr.com/a40eae20c92e62c96f2417fcf1019cff/tumblr_nn5jvxmnFp1sxq4hio1_1280.jpg

the telltale Data head tilt

he's in her dna apparently

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.

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

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.

in that case i desire dragons with a profound desire

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.

my takeaway from the most recent ep is that much as JLP can be annoying, riker is still much more annoying

Nothing has changed then

lol/yikes at the head tilt thing

I watched the first 4 episodes and I didn't like anything. I think I'm done.

even in a cabin in the middle of the woods, they managed to squeeze in a "shields up! red alert!" scene for riker.

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.

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

"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

a bit cixin liu too

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.

which I guess is maybe better than 'all the interiors look like a modern dentist office' of TNG

"what you are about to endure will drive some of you mad"

*viewers nod glumly*

a cool thing is that the hologram can do every possible accent!

a less cool thing is that the actor playing the hologra

i ken

the accents.

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

That Irish accent is brutal as well, in case anyone was in any doubt.

As we were watching it I said "why are we being subjected to this?"

Seven doing Borgy things was cool, but.

you can 3d print any food item with nutritious content in the universe but synthetic speech has taken a backwards step from 2020.

what if he *likes* comedy accents and did it on purpose

tal shiar: "what you are about to endure will drive some of you mad"
*projects fiery deaths of galaxies directly into yr cortical core*

hologram menu: "what you are about to endure will drive some of you mad"
pretty bearded man in kilt and leprechaun hat with dangling corks: "fair dinkum hoots begorrah bah gum y'all"