Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x02 - "Maps and Legends"
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Assuming standard production order, I found Stewart to be much, much more Picard-like in episode 02 than he was in episode 01, which felt to me like it was closer to a Patrick Stewart performance. I'm wondering if it took time for him to return to the familiarity of the role.
I think it might have been intentional, especially with how he only seemed Picard-like for me in the pilot when he raised his voice during the interview... It might have been to show that he was wasting his life away in Burgundy, and he definitely felt as if he weren't at home there. Meeting Dahj and facing his own mortality basically relit his inner fire from its embers. He has something to live and fight for once again.
I will say that in the show it kind of bugs me how pretty much everyone young, even the aliens, act and talk like 21st Century Millennials. No one feels "alien enough."
And why was the Trill girl in the cube having trouble fastening her coveralls? New to the host and the connections to the fingers aren't quite there yet? I mean Soji (or whatever her name is) had to go over than practically finish dressing her.
And why was the Trill girl in the cube having trouble fastening her coveralls? New to the host and the connections to the fingers aren't quite there yet? I mean Soji (or whatever her name is) had to go over than practically finish dressing her.
The Federation is almost 240 years old at this point. There would be less of a difference between cultures within the Federation because it would've become more of a melting pot. Would they talk like the way people do today? No. But the show was made today.
If you want an official explanation, the Universal Translator is making everyone sound like Millennials for the benefit of the audience. So there you go.
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We need this interaction so the Lead character in the scene can explain to the audience (via explaining it to the newly arrived extra we will never see again) a BUNCH of needed exposition to set up this whole situation in under a minute and move on...
Quite frankly, this feels a lot more natural than the Berman-era custom of replacing random words in common metaphors with technobabble and strapping [insert alien species here] before random nouns, just to make them sound future-y and alien. "I don't want to be a third nacelle?" "Clear as Tabalian glass?" Really?
I thought there was too much dry exposition between Laris and Picard. It weighs down the episode.
Supervillain/henchpersons back-and-forths can be a little overdone for my liking.
It's funny how with the Romulan Empire broken up they are better at intel than they were before. It's seems in TNG our heroes were regularly getting Romulans to defect and the like.
The whole lets find Maddox thing is not really blowing air under my sails. I just don't care.
Clancy giving Picard a good tongue lashing was great.
The political thing of 14 worlds threatening to break away makes the Federation's stance more understandable.
I would've had Picard on the ship by the end of this episode though.
Still, an episode that carries alot of promise for future episodes. So all good.
6/10
Supervillain/henchpersons back-and-forths can be a little overdone for my liking.
It's funny how with the Romulan Empire broken up they are better at intel than they were before. It's seems in TNG our heroes were regularly getting Romulans to defect and the like.
The whole lets find Maddox thing is not really blowing air under my sails. I just don't care.
Clancy giving Picard a good tongue lashing was great.
The political thing of 14 worlds threatening to break away makes the Federation's stance more understandable.I would've had Picard on the ship by the end of this episode though.
Still, an episode that carries alot of promise for future episodes. So all good.
6/10
Because no one would ever say something is fucking amazing in the future.
I thought there was too much dry exposition between Laris and Picard. It weighs down the episode.
Supervillain/henchpersons back-and-forths can be a little overdone for my liking.
It's funny how with the Romulan Empire broken up they are better at intel than they were before. It's seems in TNG our heroes were regularly getting Romulans to defect and the like.
The whole lets find Maddox thing is not really blowing air under my sails. I just don't care.
Clancy giving Picard a good tongue lashing was great.
I would've had Picard on the ship by the end of this episode though.
Still, an episode that carries alot of promise for future episodes. So all good.
6/10
I was going to do one of my more in depth reviews of this episaode - but tjhe one above pretty much sums my feeling up.
One difference: My score for this one was 5/10. They're dipping into the 'Evil Admiral' trope too much across BOTH STP and STD of late (IMO).
No...they just had to write a truly typical 'Hypocrite Picard' speech - which they did for the character in the scene with the Admiral...once he said those words TNG Picard was BACK...baby!
I do not agree this is TNG Picard. He rarely mouthed off to and threatened Admirals. This is different Picard. And I don't think the Admiral is evil. I think Picard's run of self righteous fervour stopped working for everybody.
Clancy giving Picard a good tongue lashing was great.
In particular if they were strategically/technologically vital worlds like Bajor, Vulcan, Andor, etc.
Indeed...this is a Picard where one of his best friends, perhaps indeed his best friend, sacrificed his life to save his own (Picard), he gave up command of the Enterprise (or was forced out), he may have lost other friends along the way, he's alone, he's embarrassed at having failed the Romulans, he is angry the Federation has lost it's way...
I can't say I blame him.
The evil Admiral trope is one Kurtzman has been leaning on going back to Star Trek Into Darkness, as is the whole "OMG! Trouble in the Federation!"
I wish that old misconception would just die already. Vulcans aren't "limited" to one night every seven years.At least we've learned that contrary to their cousins the Vulcans, the Romulans are not limited to one night of passion every seven years or pretty boy just had his one.
Yul Brynner would have been better. Oh wait... he sort of was.
No human being could have performed so many King and I shows. The man was a machine.
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Nine of out Ten Star Fleet admirals are obstacles in this franchise. The tenth one is just a prick.
Well, you CAN watch Yul Brynner be a homicidal gunslinger Android in Westworld (1973)
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