Season 2 and 3 are better than season 1. But as a demonstration of how good it is, sometimes I forget ST:PIC ever existed. And I say this as a huge TNG fan.
Comment on How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
I only watched the first season of Picard, but everything I hear about it makes me believe I made the right decision.
dublet@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Zip2@feddit.uk 6 months ago
The first season was ok, the second was dire and the third was brilliant. Don’t listen to anyone else.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Agreed. 2nd was terrible, 3rd was arguably too much fan service, but at least it was fun.
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You certainly did, only way to do better would have been to also not watch season one imo. PIC (and also DIS) were made by people who obviously hate everything about real Star Trek. I hated every minute of it, another DS9 rewatch would have been a much better use of time imo.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
I liked Season 3 of Discovery ok; it felt like they were trying to make Andromeda in the Star Trek universe. I didn’t watch seasons 1&2 though
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I am happy that you could enjoy it :)
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
I had a low bar, but at least Space Hercules didn’t need to invade Space Iraq to stop a planet from developing Space WMD’s in Discovery.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 6 months ago
The third season is pretty good. Second started out well but then didn’t know where they wanted it to go. I’d definitely say PIC overall is the second weakest of new trek after DIS.
7of9@startrek.website 6 months ago
I really enjoyed the first two seasons, the third was ok with some good bits in it.
Fades@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nah season 2 was a lot of fun. Season 3 tho…
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 6 months ago
If I can offer a counter argument to what others who’ve replied to you have said, in my opinion, season three of PIC is the single worst season of Star Trek to date. Nothing but empty, cynical fanservice, and the introduction of the worst sort of Scrappy-Doo character in Picard’s adult son, Jack Crusher.
People like the season because it’s getting the TNG band back together, but the season embodies all the complaints that were levelled at season one, justified or unjustified, but simply has some familiar faces. Slop in a trough.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 6 months ago
Season 3 has a ton of problems, but it’s still a much better send off for the TNG crew than Nemesis was, and that’s good enough for me.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Insurrection was probably a better sendoff.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 6 months ago
I am part of the group that thinks Insurrection was not just bad as a movie, but bad as a plot line all together. Literally everything about the Ba’ku-Son’a conflict falls apart at the slightest scrutiny.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 6 months ago
“Nemesis” was never meant to be a send off, though. It’s not great by any measure, but I still think it was more entertaining than season three of PIC despite all that.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Both Seasons 2 and 3 were spoiled for me and everything the spoilers described made me not want to watch the show. This is in contrast to spoilers due SNW or Lower Decks that made the shows sound far more interesting.
But I feel like the damning view is setting the TNG crew on the bridge and having it feel really off. It wasn’t even like when Scotty drank on the holodeck version of the original Enterprise. The crew looked off on the old bridge in a way that felt strange. Yeah, everyone is back, but it really feels off.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 6 months ago
They actually hired people to come in and paint on a recreation of the specific wood grain on the arch behind the captain’s chair.
Imagine if that amount of care and effort was put into making a story suited to those characters?
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Season 3 is the worst season of Star Strek, but the best Season of Picard. Picard seasons 1 and 2 were like entirely different shows winking at Star Trek.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 6 months ago
Nah, seasons one and two were at least trying something, to varying degrees of success. All season three attempted was cramming its plot so full of nostalgia bait, the audience wouldn’t see just how rotten it was at the core.
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 months ago
I kinda see what Season 1 was trying to do. The only thing Season 2 tried to do was save production budget.