Star Trek: Picard

Also season three is happening so hey.

Oops

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-picard-positive-covid-production-omicron-1235070987/

Further

https://deadline.com/2022/01/star-trek-picard-pauses-production-dozens-test-positive-covid-patrick-stewart-not-among-them-1234905664/

This comment (originally posted in jest) aged surprisingly well.

Anyway, here's another trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuddrlFajs

first episode was p great! just zips right along

Just finished rewatching S1 and glad i did as had forgotten SO much

Don't get my hopes up, Veg.

get em up! way up!!

I got this!

OMG this actually was good! But, where is mark's bad paintings on TV thread?

It was jarring to see though scenes of domestic abuse on a Trek show.

Also yaaas queen, her new ensemble is awesome. Looks almost McQueen, fittingly.

itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

Honest question, not snark, not well versed enough in Trek lore to know - why are li'l picard and his mom dressed like it's the 1930's?

lol that was something I wondered myself -- I thought maybe because they're vintners but the dialogue suggested that they're moving from Paris.

his brother dressed kind of oldtimeyish in the TNG ep…i didnt think much of it i figured it was just an oh yknow, Paris, winemaking ~handwave~

In Star Trek, if you live on a planet, and you're not a soldier or a politician, you get "peasant-y type local attire"

everyone is a historical cosplayer in the future of france

quiddities and agonies of ST groundlings

it's skintight or kaftan, there are no other fashions

Guinan’s hat bugged me slightly. looked a little crafty/rushed & not quite circular?

i'm going in lads

timecheck 4:48: #ffs

what if,, picy blinders?

this is the worst speech anyone has given in the history of human speech

everyone plz stop saying "final frontier"

well that was a grim slog, apologies to everyone loving it

mark's not ready for more frontiers

narrator's voice: it was the exact same number of frontiers

ok I pretty much guessed the big loop of this season from episode one

hope they throw in some twists and turns!

also, lol at hardman Picard

Definitely fun to see his grim side, as it were. (Finally got around to seeing the first episode yesterday and the new one just now.)

Kinda fun casting decision -- the Magistrate there in the new episode, who exactly the actor was was bugging me the entire time. Then I saw the end credits -- Jon Jon Briones! (Who is indeed Isa's dad, and who I last saw in the Assassination of Gianni Versace series.

Fun episode BUT this is really a mirror universe story, not a Back to the Future part II story. They are having it both ways with nature/nurture -- it is in the characters' genes that they become great people, but their morals are dictated by the reality they live in. This isn't a problem in Mirror Universe stories because they are in a bizarro universe, where some things are backwards and you shouldn't think about it too hard.

pleased to note that ART is featuring strongly in every ep so far :D

every ep is going to have a terrible painting and a worse picard speech riffing off the same stupid original

feel like these confederation dudes are kinda dumb

That's what I kinda like about them -- they're both laughable AND terrifying, which, how you say, has a certain contemporary resonance.

loved when the viewscreen said FLEET DEPLOYED

Frankly I'm glad that it isn't another Mirror Universe story (though it kind of is in all but name) as I feel that it's been played to death in the Trek universe. That said I'm kind of into this so far, as some of the dialogue (if not the speech writing) has been sharper as far as defining the characters and Agnes is bringing the lols.

I'm also imagining a new, final frontier where the role of the Queen is played by multiple actors, kind of like the Doctor but with more prosthetics.

this is goofy af, but i'd watch seven and rios and laris do anything

and picard and q, especially if they're doing eeeeevil

agnes is okay; raffi and (especially) elnor seem pointless to me

elnor is the worst

raffi sucks. i die inside every time she calls picard “JL”

there are lots of arguments to be had about what is and what isn't 'star trek' but i'm pretty sure having happy-go-lucky elnor slit peoples' throats is the latter

its his version of skateboarding down an elephant

Hahahah

I gotta say I was thinking the other day how if you had gone back 35 years to the filming of the TNG debut episode and told Patrick Stewart and John DeLancie they'll be continuing to interpret these characters in, well, 35 years, I would have enjoyed their reactions.

delancie would have been 'cool!' and stewart might have killed himself

lmao

raffi sucks. i die inside every time she calls picard “JL”

I keep checking in with this thread to see if I should start watching the second season, and it is exactly stuff like this that makes me glad I decided not to bother.

Patrick Freyne's review is good and funny (as usual).

New season is fun so far so I'd say you're missing out.