harmfuljays wrote:
:wth: Blasphemy!
Well, this is why we are all different and why all views are welcome!
I even tried to tell the hair cut lady and she told me she didn't like Star Trek! She liked Walking Dead....or something like that that I have never seen nor would bother with.
After realizing we were putting this series on individual pedestals, I tried to buffer the potential disappointment factor as the Professor and I geeked out.
It could also have been the pure excitement I had for this series only to have it be subpar in Seasons 1 and 2. The vindication/improvement in Season 3 sent me over the top.
In conjunction with this 3rd season of Picard I have also been watching TNG over again (midway through Season 2 now). The amount of brief homages to the TNG series is downright amazing.....and will go right by the average viewer. I was certainly satisfied with the finality for the TNG crew. Looking back I still think this is the best season since TNG stopped so I will continue to stand by that for now. I do like Strange New Worlds too.
I thought they cancelled discovery..so there is one more there?
Yes, one more season for Discovery and then it's done. Again, a mixed bag, but IMO mostly enjoyable. I hope this time they find a way to make the show compelling without blowing up a planet or all but destroying the Federation because a little alien kid screamed. No more Trek disaster porn please (which also really, really marred Picard season one). That's why I like Strange New Worlds. It's not trying so hard with over-the-top stakes and forced melodrama, the writers and actors are just tryin' to have fun.
I suppose if you don't love the shoutouts and tie-ins with TNG and all of Trek lore, you might not love this season of Picard...but I'll say this, John, however harsh it may sound: If by the end of episode 9's big reveal you aren't moved, man, you got no Trekkie soul.
As for their advanced age, well, that actually plays a part in the overarching plot.
And I agree with Jay--part of my enthusiasm and praise for this season might stem from the fact that the first two seasons just did not click at all. To me, Picard seasons 1 and 2 failed mostly because there just wasn't any real plan in place. Season 1's showrunner, Michael Chabon, said in an interview that he wrote up a pitch to convince Patrick Stewart to come back, but that pitch was thrown away. Can't help but wonder if that particular idea was better than they eventually went with. It certainly could not have been worse. Season 2 just felt...pointless. If anything, some of the lines uttered by Crusher in this season make it sound like the writers were acting like big plot points from previous seasons never happened. Matalas himself said if there was going to be any follow-up to those plotlines, someone else would have to do it.
Still left up in the air: The final fate of the Enterprise-E. All we know is it's out of commission, a social media post says it's final mission is "classified" and apparently Worf played a big part in that.