Star Trek: Picard

I think if you're willing to stop watching after episode 4, maybe, because that seems to be the traditional shark jumping point.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MrEUR9Cy8M/VDhkUiRqkAI/AAAAAAAAIr4/rAqgy0gJUww/s1600/tumblr_ncy76nQdtG1r87tiqo1_500.gif

Not that the script was much help, but this season is at least teaching me that Brent Spiner is not a very good actor, at least when it comes to drama.

ditto sirpatstew imo :(

shouty faustian spiner is ..not great
but i think he’s a good actor normally? having to be a robot for that long surely does something to your sense of the dramatic idk

i feel like oldpatstew is just being old & delivering lines vs being old & being picard & delivering lines

its a bit like he’s going to ask when’s dinner or when will my granddaughter be visiting etc

i feel mean saying that bc i love him

despite everything i still kinda like this season. it’s not driving me to drink like Discovery did with its feelings

How dare you criticize THE FEELS. (This may explain a certain generational split in the fandom I've noticed, but kinda hoping Strange New Worlds is the sop for the rest of us.)

indeed! i am not ashamed to say i am kind of putting all of my hopes on captain pike & crew to do what disco could not. i mean there was so much unpacking they could have charged a per episode copay

we shall see

yeah unfortunately i think sirpatstew may be beyond it at this point. no shame; he is 81 ffs

worried that season 3 will demonstrate that all of them are beyond it

he is 81 ffs

but the paymasters are still willing to cut the cheque and so... excelsior!

Well that was a lot.

why does the BQ consider the word bullshit a "colloquialism", she has assimilated and shares the sensibility of millions who say it all the time

tbf i wd be traumatised if these twits were my parents

"BTW didn't I have a brother?"

I did however appreciate that while I was thinking "Hold on didn't he see his mother in that first season TNG episode?" he then specifically mentions the memories he constructed of her which applied to that very episode.

laris: "think faster jean-luc!"
the viewers: "do everything faster ffs"

ok well that involved a lot of everyone expaining what love is to everyone else

it's grief without perseverance

https://c.tenor.com/I0pX2ENHYlYAAAAC/its-how-you-get-the-army-to-follow-you-my-dear-borg-queen.gif

iirc love has been explained enough already by Alannah Myles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOrMzBewG0

PICARD s2 (2022) needed more of this energy and wisdom imo

agree

Well, that was a season finale.

First season, I bailed after 4 episodes. This season, I bailed after 2 episodes. Judging by comments, I made the right decision again.

i guess i’m glad wil wheaton got thrown a bone — it sounds like he got shafted by rick berman et al back in the day — but watching him act is just painful

It was, how you say, just enough.

xp fair, but keep that away from my show

also, they divorced it completely from the plot so lol

I will finish it but yeah that episode inside Picard's head urrrrgh

Now I'll admit I've only seen stray TNG but not only does an emotionally repressed Men Would Rather Explore Space Than Go To Therapy Picard feel out of character, surely medical advances would have been sufficient by the time of Picard's childhood that his mum wouldn't have to be kept in some gothic basement because of her depression like it's the 19th century? The show's insistence on portraying Picard's childhood as being the early 20th century drives me up the wall.

I'm sorry, but I FEEL VINDICATED I have been banging on about Wesley showing up because he's a traveller in both this and Disco for AGES. I yelped when he showed up.

I found this episode very satisfying!

has there ever been a series where people talked so much

how is there still 15 minutes left, this makes lord of the rings look like itchy and scratchy

xp clearly you haven't been watching discovery

oh ffs

Do you not believe in love and hope

Or something

The most hilare bit was how cartoonishly bad Soong was being, with his "must I remind you I am exceedingly rich so shut up and do it" routine at the end there.

Let us look back in time!

And Wesley would come back from Travellerland, or wherever he ended up? That would be cool.

― trishyb, Monday, March 14, 2022 6:23 PM (one month ago)

recently learned that you used to be a poster i really liked a lot but goddamnit if you summon wesley i will fp you straight to hell

― mookieproof, Monday, March 14, 2022 6:35 PM (one month ago)

(j/k)

― mookieproof, Monday, March 14, 2022 6:35 PM (one month ago)

It's inevitable. I can feel it.

― trishyb, Monday, March 14, 2022 6:41 PM (one month ago)

But IS mookie kidding now

https://i.imgur.com/r5nC1nS.jpg

(i liked wesley coming back)
(plz dont ban me)

I did too, poo to y'all!

rude

anyway i guess he was too busy gallivanting around space/time to prevent talinn, who should have instead just beat the shit out of soong, from haplessly dying. forever lame

mean while elnor lives :D to surf down an elephant’s trunk one day :D
ughhhhhhhh whyyyy god whyyyy

The entire concept of the borg and fighting them sometimes feels like such a boondoggle given the Q's could just zap them out of existence. I guess this also explains why Q never shows up in Disco - hes dead by then (who knows wether they knew that a few years back though?)

Oh one fleeting thing I am not sure I heard properly - when Q says to JL "even gods have favourites and you happen to be mine", for a moment I swear it looked like Picard was starting to say "wait, youre a go..."

Did I imagine that?

was anything picard actually did say fleeting? my answer here is no

Everyone on this thread OTM. Finale kind of rallied despite the mid-season slide into silly mediocrity. The desire to not die alone was actually kind of nice and would've been better had that scene not dragged on so long.

For a moment I wondered if the spatial anomaly was Q's corpse finally dissolving after centuries and releasing massive amounts of energy, and that THAT was his surprise gift, not Elnor.

Also also since Picard is housed inside a Soong-bot, I'm assuming he's fully functional.

I guess this also explains why Q never shows up in Disco - hes dead by then (who knows wether they knew that a few years back though?)

There are still other Q, presumably!

Oh one fleeting thing I am not sure I heard properly - when Q says to JL "even gods have favourites and you happen to be mine", for a moment I swear it looked like Picard was starting to say "wait, youre a go..."

Did I imagine that?

I rewatched this scene, and JL only sez, "Q..." before Q cuts him off. Given that the Q/god thing was touched on in "Tapestry," I think it was more poetic license than anything else (though given that he and the Continuum are basically omnipotent, potato/tomato).

It must be true

Buddy of mine sent me the season 3 finale script of Picard, and I don't want to give anything away, but (and maybe this is a spoiler) William Shatner makes a triumphant return to kill him.

— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) May 9, 2022

I do like seeing McFadden again but this doesn't quite wash away the memory of last season's shortcomings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvMgjb4U4Y

Help help I’m being tempted https://www.etsy.com/listing/1106877091/antifascist-starfleet-insignia-gold

do it!

For $7 why not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-QBUw8Rf0

It's a good trailer! Maybe they should've stuck to just making those.