Star Trek: Picard

thank god the picards had to go outside, at their crazy locked-down formal event, so someone could hit one of them with a car

oh no, someone is trapped in his own mind by entirely made-up trauma

they even wasted the whole thing with the hot doctor

So you’re in the third season writers’ room.

i thought it had a solid start! but now it needs nothing less than AP reducing the borg queen to reciting the numbers of pi

the borg queen stuff is def annoying to me

and look i should be first in line for pat benatar fan service but they kept the chorus exactly the same & just changed the arrangement for the verse which annoyed me

also thematically it’s kindof a halfass song choice. If you’re going to go there, GO THERE. just swing for the fences and do a bigband workup of “The Beast In Me” or fkn “Dr Hekyll and Mr Jive” or “Jugband Blues” like what are we really doing here

if you're gonna go for a 40yo pop song there's no excuse not to go for total eclipse of the heart

i was going more w split personality theme but ok

Why would someone in 2024 sing/entertain others with a Pat Benatar song from the 80s was my problem. I know the answer is "our fans are all over 50" but hey ho.

Didnt mind this ep but not a lot progressed.

also mookie otm i hate this
oh no, someone is trapped in his own mind by entirely made-up trauma

but in general i still do like this season

I cannot imagine these series (Disco & Picard) being appealing to newcomers to the franchise.

I just watched two early, generic DS9 eps in a row — one where Dax trains a floppy-haired 90s Trill with Chandler Bing’s voice, and one where Quark’s old Cardassian girlfriend turns up — and the characters have such soul and depth and wit. I miss that! That dissonance - that’s always been there - between the depth of feeling and the corniness of the presentation - seems even more pronounced, watching them now alongside the new shows.

a major problem i have with this show is that @sirpatstew's solution to playing picard-when-old is being @OLDsirpatstew and just playing picard and i don't think it works

"he has an unstable arhythmia, his heart's all over the place"
"what does that mean?"
"it means he's in the middle of a major cardiac event"

thanks doc

lmao

Nice twisty little nugget was Dr. Jemison being paged, who is almost surely Mae Jemison, real-life astronaut inspired to become one by TOS and later had a cameo on TNG.

Also, Seven has had experiences with Q(s).

Hahah yeah at the Jemison moment, I was all "Hey wait, is she in this?"

was that a tesla that soong used to run over picard?

presumably by 2024 everyone just shrugs when a tesla runs over a pedestrian due to the frequency

lol the entire franchise is now contorted to establish musk as someone who matters in its own past history

they shd go back in time and kill baby elon (he's a baby however old he is)

or we can sit in on jlp's therapy session 🙄

this deep space narnia shit is childishly bad sorry if this offends

omg this is boring garbage

the ending of this episode was so pointless and annoying

i liked the rest of it for the most part but just like, boring contrived earth shenanigans to drag the earth stuff out & fracture the group as much as possible interminably is the worst, i hate it every single time unless there are whales involved

dragged-out time spent on earth >>>>>>>>>>>> dragged-out time spent in jlp's MIND AS A CHILD >:(

sorry if thats a spoiler but at least you can don a sleeping cap and get comfy as u watch

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^^^correct posture assumed

dislike james callis

stop wrinkling your forehead at me dude

lol i will always love baltar, i cannot quit him

whatsapp conflab re picard

whatsapper 1: Picard has been enormously divisive amongst ST long term investors
whatsapper 1: And hint is that it is full on sliding to derided
mark s: s1 was a silly mess but it was also reasonably exciting
whatsapper 2: S3 of Picard has had a trail announcing basically all of TNG cast except for Wesley in it
whatsapper 3: I thought TNG was The Night Garden for a second which would be much better. Good old MakkaPakka
mark s: i wonder a bit how much my not enjoying it is bcz i am so very spotty in TNG lore (eg there's possibly a big FIRST CONTACT (1996) callback) (as well as to the whale movie). FIRST CONTACT but its the ppl of the night garden wd be a solid twist tbf

except the ppl of the night garden are 💯the borg

resistance is futile:
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your whatsapp person who thinks Wesley is a character of note in TNG is RONG

I still think he should come back in one of these damn shows though, he's a fucking time traveller now he can come back to any of them!

(and also I do feel bad for how shat on Weaton was by TNG)

Roffle

The big satisfying reveal in Picard is going to be that Dr. Soong based his face on a weird head he dug up in San Francisco.

— Ben Lesnick (@banditloaf) April 22, 2022

raffi sucks so hard. i might even prefer neelix

I don’t MIND her but her whole vibe is Ray Winstone’s character from the fourth Indiana Jones movie, the alleged friend and colleague of many years with a dynamic that forces that issue instead of reflecting it.

i think her being a counterpoint to Seven makes her suckiness even more pronounced

It was kind of dumb, but the scene where Seven tossed a glass bottle on the ground to see what it felt like was funny
‘hmm yeah, that made me feel something. she’s chasing endorphins”

it was but she shd have tossed a second bottle as they left the scene and like shivered or something

maybe at raffi

Q is annoying but he's right abt humans (these ones)

ears pricked up when he said "i prepared myself to be enveloped in the warm glow of memeing" (but he said "meaning", so as you were, the show remains shitpost-free)

Should I bother with this season? Seemed like y’all were into it initially… maybe not so much now

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

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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