Who the fuck cares what they “needed” in TNG. TNG is over.
And not every ST series has to be the same. It can and should explore different themes. Or they can crash and burn like Enterprise due to running out of ideas.
I think that’s the problem with both Picard and Discovery. The ideas aren’t particularly imaginative (except when they’re stupid), and they can’t get away from fan service.
The finale of Picard was particularly egregious. They hit the reset button in a particularly silly fashion (“You will not live any longer than you normally would”) when there were two far more imaginative ways to deal with it (three, if they really had the guts).
The review goes into a rather great deal of detail as to the weird plot holes, wholly abandoned plot threads, and illogical nonsense “Picard” had in abundance. It makes other substantial points too.
“Picard” was terrible; this review says a dozen or more reasons why and honestly it doesn’t even get into all the problems that dungheap of a show had.
It was no worse than a Next Generation episode, better than some.
“Optimism” = “be a war criminal”? Got it.
Better than most. Especially the early seasons.
I kind of enjoyed the Plinkett reviews when they were new, and I generally like what “Plinkett” has to say. I just don’t have the time or paitence to watch a 90 minute review any more though. Has anybody summarised “Plinkett’s” main points somewhere I can get a Cliff’s notes version?
Who the fuck cares what they “needed” in TNG. TNG is over.
No need for Picard then.
And not every ST series has to be the same. It can and should explore different themes. Or they can crash and burn like Enterprise due to running out of ideas.
Enterprise was actually good compared to this dreck. You can explore different themes without jettisoning the entire foundation of what made ST good. Alex Kurtzman is a hack writer.
How about optimism of Odo being accepted by his peers despite those same peers being at war with his people.
But no we’ll go with the optimistic future of Picard where we see the Borg plucking somebodys eye out.
Aside from people watching it and enjoying it. It’s not like they extended a Season 2 because no one watched.
Yeah, because it’s rubbish
I think you mistook my sarcasm (maybe I should edit ok make it clearer). A season 2 is coming.
My condolences
Does nothing to cancel out the war crimes Sisko commits.
Does nothing to cancel out the war crimes Sisko commits.
Ends justify the means
J.L Picard is Not TNG Picard in Star Trek Picard
Smoking and Drinking in Star Trek Picard Vs TNG / DS9 / Voyager / Gene Roddenberry’s Vision
I though it was better than the prequels and I have to agree somewhat with MrDibble, Mr. Plinkett’s looks more to me like a one hit wonder that did hit it out of the ballpark with his legendary Phantom Menace tear-down. It has struggled to hit a single after that.
I’m sorry just because its better than the prequels doesn’t mean it’s considered good. The Last Jedi had terrible writing and was extremely lazy, laziness which was represented in the inverting of the snow from the Empire Strikes Back to Salt.
As for the Mr Plinkett stuff, dismissing it as a “one” Hit wonder is irrelevant, most of their criticisms of current ST and Star Wars are valid.
Thing is that I was aware of this:
Most critics did like the series (87%), and average audience score was almost 60%. Not great, but good.
With the Last Jedi even more critics did agree that it was good (90%), but less so the average audience.
Most critics did like the series (87%), and average audience score was almost 60%. Not great, but good.
Most critics aren’t long time Trek fans, which the show is supposedly aimed at.
With the Last Jedi even more critics did agree that it was good (90%), but less so the average audience.
Because the average audience knew garbage when they saw it. Ghostbusters in 2016 got 74% from critics.