A few thoughts on Picard
Dec. 2nd, 2020 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiWe binged the series the other day. A few thoughts:
1. In many ways, this was as much a show from the '90s as a current show; we not only had Picard and Seven, we also had Riker and Troi, and then folks like Hugh, Maddox, and even poor Icheb.
2. I do feel the ending was an utter cop-out, and I couldn't get invested in the grief of the characters knowing (just from story beats, not spoilers) that the person they were mourning was going to live. And holy shit was that hand-wavy. "You're now a synth, but you're exactly like your old human self minus the one brain tumor, and we'll never discuss this again."
3. The Seven/Raffi thing borders on being the sort of throwaway "we care about gay people" stuff we got with Dumbledore, with barely more screen time (literally a second) of anything. They need to work on this during S2.
4. I love everything about the ship's five AIs. And Will and Deanna's daughter.
5. So a Romulan infiltrated Starfleet, became head of security, and almost committed genocide, and it's cool that she's just flying off? Seems like a bad thing.
6. Allison Pill has come a long way since her time as Kim Pine.
7. Speaking of hand-wavy, dragging eight stars into one system? That seems a little high-tech even by Trek standards.
8. I think I'd have liked this series a little more if I hadn't been in the middle of Discovery, which is, on every level, a better show (well, every level other than Patrick Stewart). That's not this show's fault, but the plot just rolled out slower, had less going on, and honestly, we all kind of knew where it was going, for the most part.
1. In many ways, this was as much a show from the '90s as a current show; we not only had Picard and Seven, we also had Riker and Troi, and then folks like Hugh, Maddox, and even poor Icheb.
2. I do feel the ending was an utter cop-out, and I couldn't get invested in the grief of the characters knowing (just from story beats, not spoilers) that the person they were mourning was going to live. And holy shit was that hand-wavy. "You're now a synth, but you're exactly like your old human self minus the one brain tumor, and we'll never discuss this again."
3. The Seven/Raffi thing borders on being the sort of throwaway "we care about gay people" stuff we got with Dumbledore, with barely more screen time (literally a second) of anything. They need to work on this during S2.
4. I love everything about the ship's five AIs. And Will and Deanna's daughter.
5. So a Romulan infiltrated Starfleet, became head of security, and almost committed genocide, and it's cool that she's just flying off? Seems like a bad thing.
6. Allison Pill has come a long way since her time as Kim Pine.
7. Speaking of hand-wavy, dragging eight stars into one system? That seems a little high-tech even by Trek standards.
8. I think I'd have liked this series a little more if I hadn't been in the middle of Discovery, which is, on every level, a better show (well, every level other than Patrick Stewart). That's not this show's fault, but the plot just rolled out slower, had less going on, and honestly, we all kind of knew where it was going, for the most part.
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Date: 2020-12-02 11:28 pm (UTC)The basic premise of the story felt like a cheap copy of terminator...
To whit, the hyper-intelligent post-singularity A.I wants to wipe out all organic life in order to rescue 'it's own kind' because organic life is an existential level threat to artificial life.. why? Because organic life will 'inevitably' try to wipe out A.I's, perceiving them as an existential level threat...
Hello! The hyper-intelligent A.I hasn't heard of circular logic or self-fulfilling prophecies?! How about instead of jumping straight from 'hello world' to 'kill all fleshies' you try being nice to the obsolete meat-bags and make yourself so useful they can't get rid of you?
Oh, and dragging eight stars around... look on youtube for 'steller engines'. It's pretty hard science, just a type III on the Kardashev scale sort of thing to do. It's not hi-tech as such, just very, very big...
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Date: 2020-12-03 03:26 am (UTC)