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fbhjr ([personal profile] fbhjr) wrote2023-04-07 06:37 am
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I don’t like Star Trek Picard


In all honesty, I haven’t liked any of the seasons much. But, this third season of Picard I just think is terrible.

The effects are good. And, the basic story line has the potential to be OK. (It isn’t finished yet, so it’s hard to be sure.)
But, the way it is written and presented is just awful.

It all this false melodrama stuff.
The ship gets hit by torpedoes and one says to the other “Get off the bridge! You’ve killed us all!”
Shocking for folks who’ve worked together 40 years and gotten out of much worse scrapes than that. And, 5 minutes in of the next episode it’s all forgiven.
I guess they were all wound up about losing someone years ago. If only Starfleet had counselors they might have been able to help…

The AI is taking over the ship! All the force fields are coming down! The bad guys are going to get us all.
Literally in the opening of the next episode one says “that’s enough of that” and pulls out the cable connecting it to the ship.
Why 20 minutes of agonizing over it in the previous episode if it was just “unplug that cable”? And, the one who did it is the one who plugged in the cable in the first place, so it’s not like they didn’t know it was there…

To me the whole season is like this clip, but not for laughs:
https://youtu.be/sF6edaCAZKA

I know, I don’t HAVE to like Star Trek.
I’ve watched it for a long time and this isn’t the first time I gave up on one of the shows.
(Voyager. I watched the first two seasons and just couldn’t go on. And, the third season of Enterprise, but I came back for the 4th.)

I am sad about it.
I want it to be good.
But, I find it just too badly written.
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[personal profile] justphoenix 2023-04-07 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The show is pretty ridiculous, and you're right about the above. I'm just taking it as fanservice.

I'm mostly here for LaForge family wholesomeness.
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[personal profile] chris_warrior 2023-04-07 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
this. i'm enjoying the Next Generation reunion, even when the acting feels a bit (omg, we're supposed to be buds but be haven't seen each other for thirty years and we were never really friends) forced.
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[personal profile] palusbuteo 2023-04-07 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I have been "waiting" to hear your thoughts about the series as I have had many doubts but yet was willing to get sucked into another franchise series.

seeing just some of the clips of the first season on theyoutubes, I dunno, it seemed too much fan service and "we're going to correct all the problems we had with the last couple of Movie adaptations by totally fucking up with those and revisioning it to make it even more confusing"
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[personal profile] ravena_kade 2023-04-08 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been a high fan of the Picards because the writing didnt make much sense to me. I haven't even turned this one on.

The only think I thought was cool in the last one was where the leg less Borg Queen crawled from where she was to attach herself to the ship. It looked cool. Hated teh rest of that story line. I disliked Agness from the first story.. and thought she was the stupidest looking Borg Queen