I have just endured the . . . whatever it was . . . that was Star Trek: Picard season 2. I may have more to say on the subject in a longer post. Right now, I just feel the need to highlight two three four gargantuan problems that haunt the whole season.
- It is God-awful slow. There are entire episodes that don't contribute at all to the main story arc. There are others (Episode 8, I'm looking at you) in which the characters get out of trouble, after a full hour, by doing something they could have and should have done in the first ten minutes.
- Speaking of the main story arc, what the hell is it? Who's the antagonist? Is it Q? Is it Soong? Is it the Borg Queen? Is it Renee Picard's inner demons? Is it the authorities? What exactly are any or all of the above trying to achieve?
- "We need to go back to the past to fix the timeline" is OVER. Don't do this setup again.
- Apparently Jean-Luc Picard experienced a childhood trauma that was so fundamental, so foundational to the man he became, that he sat two meters away from an empath for eight hours a day over seven years and she never noticed.
I'm sorry, I have to stop now. They're coming with my medicine.
Go watch Strange New Worlds instead.
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ReplyDeleteI watched half the first episode of the first season and quit.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the fundamental essence of Star Trek is “What might it look like if humanity grew up?” The future we’re shown isn’t utopian, but the humans of the Federation have at least moved beyond the profit motive, don’t fight aggressive wars of conquest, and we see that their first impulse is always to try and understand the beings they meet instead of blowing them up.
“Picard” represented the people of the Federation as no different than people now — small-minded, prejudicial, always thinking of their own desires first, and easily stampeded into morally wrong actions through fear-mongering. What the show is saying is that twenty-fourth-century humanity hasn’t grown up at all, and the idea that that could happen was false; which means that everything every Star Trek character in every series has ever done or said was mistaken and futile.
You will be pleased to learn that season 3 was announced. Now with Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, and Michael Dorn. It’s guaranteed to be just as good as season 2.
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