Elayis
Sidekick
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2011
- Messages
- 2,097
- Reaction score
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- Points
- 73
I've never particularly liked Picard. The only decent episodes to me were the pilot and the Riker/Troi reunion. The rest is basically garbage, and somehow this season was even worse than the first.
Not only does the show suffer from the usual streaming bloat, but it's trying to be grim-dark and edgy which to me does not belong in a Star Trek show. DS9 managed to be both adult and hopeful, but Picard's showrunner's apparently didn't get that memo. The writer's don't capture the feel of the characters, either; the returning cast don't feel like their old selves (Picard's too mealymouthed, Seven's basically unrecognizable), and the new one's feel too anachronistically 21st century. There's a cadence and almost academic quality to Trek dialogue that is missing here, and having everyone swear constantly doesn't help.
Frankly the writing's just bad, and if it wasn't Trek I wouldn't even bother watching (I already gave up on Discovery back in season 2. I honestly don't understand what the point of the show is, or what it's adding to the overall canon. The only bright spot this season has been Q, but he's barely in what I've seen so far (episode 5 or 6, I think).
Not only does the show suffer from the usual streaming bloat, but it's trying to be grim-dark and edgy which to me does not belong in a Star Trek show. DS9 managed to be both adult and hopeful, but Picard's showrunner's apparently didn't get that memo. The writer's don't capture the feel of the characters, either; the returning cast don't feel like their old selves (Picard's too mealymouthed, Seven's basically unrecognizable), and the new one's feel too anachronistically 21st century. There's a cadence and almost academic quality to Trek dialogue that is missing here, and having everyone swear constantly doesn't help.
Frankly the writing's just bad, and if it wasn't Trek I wouldn't even bother watching (I already gave up on Discovery back in season 2. I honestly don't understand what the point of the show is, or what it's adding to the overall canon. The only bright spot this season has been Q, but he's barely in what I've seen so far (episode 5 or 6, I think).