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Star Trek: Picard - Season 1 |OT| Re-ENGAGE!
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To be honest, I hope this is more like Discovery and less like TNG. I like the Picard character but I want to see him deal with some realistic issues and not cherry picked utopian philosophizing. That stuff is just cheesy in 2020.
Hope to see some nods to current events like Trump and Brexit, Stewart's comments seem promising.
Hope to see some nods to current events like Trump and Brexit, Stewart's comments seem promising.
Re the spoiler policy - for a series bent on toleration and being the better - not a lot of tolerance shown to those of us not living in the US.
Resetera may be based in the US but I would argue functions and lives as an international forum...
Resetera may be based in the US but I would argue functions and lives as an international forum...
1.01 "Remembrance" Discussion
Yeah, I was just checking. Unfortunately I don't have time until tomorrow to watch.
It's getting pretty good reviews so far. Don't know if the embargo has lifted, but a bunch of outlets are already publishing their reviews.
So far, that's it's not TNG 2.0 but feels like it has its own purpose and that it is good. Don't want to read any spoilers though! Apparently there's a big surprise.
So far, that's it's not TNG 2.0 but feels like it has its own purpose and that it is good. Don't want to read any spoilers though! Apparently there's a big surprise.
I think it went live just as I happened to do a CBS All Access Trial, anyway... first episode was ok... it had some strong scenes I thought.
The conversation about positronic cloning and recreating Data from a single neuron memories and all sounded pretty fucking stupid though. I'm pretty worried about what they might do to the 'modern' Trek timeline but we'll see.
pretty good episode. this is definitely not TNG! which is great. The ending shot was
fucking bad ass. They're in a recovered borg cube? wtfffff???
Why ignore the poll for a minority?
It not like Mando, that literally not aired in most of the world yet so spoiler tags not needed, nobody where it doesn't air should be ready the thread unless they want to be spoiled.
It's not hard to use a spoiler tag for 24 hours.
Well, seems episode is out, guess gotta vacate for 24+ hours.
Anything in Europe on Amazon yet? So I know when I need to start bugging my friend for his account :P
I'd say that they should be as long as the story they want to tell in any one episode. If they only need 32 mins for it then great. If they want 64 mins then thats fine too.
As someone from the UK I don't get why it wouldn't be spoilers as soon as the episode drops like I think literally every other thread.
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It makes sense if they think they will want to sell the episodes for syndication/air on CBS channels later on.
I thought it was pretty good. Patrick Stewart crushed it as you'd expect, though I'm not totally convinced by the main plot yet. Also they rushed through a hell of a lot of exposition and character work in such a short time, so a lot of it felt rather rushed.
Also the production values were really good but the animation whenever Dahj jumped around looked hilariously bad lmao
Also the production values were really good but the animation whenever Dahj jumped around looked hilariously bad lmao
so sick of major IP pulling this "everything is connected" plotting where everyone has to be a child/parent to everyone else. I'd be happy with Picard and Riker drinking tea and talking for 10 episodes tbh
I thought it was interesting
It's been shown time and again that no one could recreate Soongs work. Maddox wanted to dissassemble Data to see how he ticked. What if the reason no one has been able to replicate his work is that there was synthetic DNA as the basis for the technology.
"Even though Barack Obama received more votes, John McCain's voters were louder, so please welcome The President of The United States, John McCain!"
of course we have to see the first episode, but from the trailer it looks like technology between ST:D and ST:P did not evolve at all. which is weird.
Personally I found ST:D to be the perfect Mass Effect show, but not Star Trek. For Star Trek it was quite...bad to mediocre. It missed heart and subtle moments. Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph2qWXJ-Tk
Now let's see how Picard will do. I watched the interviews and understand they don't want to do TNG 2, but I hope they keep speeches and emotional moments like the ones in the YouTube video intact.
Personally I found ST:D to be the perfect Mass Effect show, but not Star Trek. For Star Trek it was quite...bad to mediocre. It missed heart and subtle moments. Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph2qWXJ-Tk
Now let's see how Picard will do. I watched the interviews and understand they don't want to do TNG 2, but I hope they keep speeches and emotional moments like the ones in the YouTube video intact.
Who's the guy Picard talks to in the trailer who says to Picard "are you sure you want to do this"?
It's dated for tomorrow. Unless they throw it up just after midnight so at minimum ~12 hours, if it like Netflix with 10am ish updates than more like 22 hours away.
Good start to the season. I liked seeing more of Earth, though based on the season preview I imagine we'll be leaving it by the third episode. Really good music as well, particularly the opening credits theme.
Solid opening episode that delivers on production values, nostalgia fan service and incomparable acting from Patrick Stewart.
The supporting cast leaves much to be desired - I wasn't much of a fan of Isa Briones' performance and felt removed from the action scenes vs. the endless parade of Romulan redshirts. But there's a decent enough foundation laid here to kick off the series and I look forward to what we'll be treated to in the coming weeks.
This week's classic TNG episode to go back and watch for context... The Measure of a Man (S2E9).
This week's classic TNG episode to go back and watch for context... The Measure of a Man (S2E9).
I had no idea this was the case. Interesting.
I agree. I find Trek (most shows, really) suffers when their epsiodes are constrained to a rigid 38-42 mins though. It seems that the writing and story is hampered immensely being forced to heavily edit and cut things down to meet an imposed limit.
Yeah, makes sense.
Okay, now that the episode it up I'm noping out of this thread, but just before I do, I wanted to mention that Picard seems to be up on Crave in Canada as well, so it looks like the whole "wait a day after broadcast" bullshit is over in Canada. Hurray!
OKAY SEE YOU ALL SOON
OKAY SEE YOU ALL SOON
Hard to compare as most Trek pilots are concerned with introducing the ensemble cast, whereas this show is focused on one character. It's better that Encounter at Farpoint, but that's a pretty low bar.
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Yeah I fucked up with the poll, I wanted to get people's opinions before we decided, and I get both arguments either way, and more people were arguing with actual posts towards spoilers on episode drop. It shouldn't be a big deal either way.
Anyways, I watched the opening scene on my phone before work, so good.
Looks like The Ready Room will drop at 7 am pacific/10 am eastern
And episode titles
1.01 "Remembrance"
1.02 Maps and Legends"
1.03 "The End is the Beginning"
Episode 4 is directed by Frakes
Anyways, I watched the opening scene on my phone before work, so good.
Looks like The Ready Room will drop at 7 am pacific/10 am eastern
And episode titles
1.01 "Remembrance"
1.02 Maps and Legends"
1.03 "The End is the Beginning"
Episode 4 is directed by Frakes
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