Picard had a lot of promise, and they almost got it, but overall it was trash IMO. More Star Wars and hand waiving than Trek. It was a beautifully made universe, the SFX were superb, but they seemed to spent all their time and money on that, and none on dialogue or character consistency. Picard is nothing of his former self. He spends three seasons whining and complaining rather than commanding. The writers invent a traumatic backstory for him, depicting his authoritative personality as a character flaw as a result of trauma, rather than a strength of character. I rather disliked what they did to him.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I gave up watching Picard at the end of Season 1 after they kill Picard and replace him with an android. If it’s not actually Jean-Luc, I’m not interested. And I’m definitely not interested in returning to Picard’s universe with all of those boring ass characters if it means that they’ll do another time-travel plotline to save his life. Yawn.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Season 2 was arguably worse.
graded6827@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Season 1 and 2 sucked ass, but season 3 is actually pretty great and you can watch it as a stand alone without really needing to watch the previous 2 seasons.
shartedchocolate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Season 1 was such absolute dog shit. The orbital defense flowers, “JL” etc… but yeah, S3 feels like Kurtzman got kicked in the sack and someone else made Picard. I recommend watching S3 and forgetting the other two were ever made.
Also in S1 Jean Luc Picard picked a bar fight. The person that had his dick dragged through a mile of broken glass getting killed by a Nossican over and over in a bar fight, went to pick a bar fight. What was that show?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I strongly disagree. It had promise, but was ultimately very stupid. The entire show uses “Borg” as an excuse to explain away ridiculous concepts that are far-fetched and more akin to magic than technology.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
season three was passable at best. people only say it was good because the first two were so unbelievably dogshit
xilliah@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I tried but it feels so shallow.