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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"

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Since Trek is now trying to be edgy (with the Soji/Narek/Rizzo scenes) and they're going out of their way to make Jurati look creepy, they should have had the lines:

Agnes Jurati: So, Captain Rios, can one of your holograms and I...?
Rios: No.

What do you think this is? DS9? The Cage? Heaven forbid Star Trek is ever as edgy as was allowable 55 years ago.
 
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I'm getting very bored with this show. My free trial of CBS expires tomorrow and I don't think I'm going to bother with "picard" until it finishes its run and then get another free week to watch at all once. I just don't care to keep up with it anymore.

The story is SO low stakes and so poorly paced. The entire point of this episode was, "And then a NEW member joins the gang" with absolutely zero narrative momentum.

Yes, yes, plenty of more backstory of marginal quality.

And one of the show's biggest issues is just how small in scope and stakes the actual story is. Picard returns to the Romulan colony years after a catastrophic event and the major fallout from his inability to help.

"So, Picard, why have you returned? What is this new mission?" Well, um, it's no longer about saving nearly a billion people....it's just one random android that may or may not already be dead.

It's so unbalanced from the show's own history. It's not that that story couldn't work. But it's majorly hampered by the fact that the show puts so much focus on the events of its own past which are staggeringly more important.
 
I'm getting very bored with this show. My free trial of CBS expires tomorrow and I don't think I'm going to bother with "picard" until it finishes its run and then get another free week to watch at all once. I just don't care to keep up with it anymore.

The story is SO low stakes and so poorly paced. The entire point of this episode was, "And then a NEW member joins the gang" with absolutely zero narrative momentum.

Yes, yes, plenty of more backstory of marginal quality.

And one of the show's biggest issues is just how small in scope and stakes the actual story is. Picard returns to the Romulan colony years after a catastrophic event and the major fallout from his inability to help.

"So, Picard, why have you returned? What is this new mission?" Well, um, it's no longer about saving nearly a billion people....it's just one random android that may or may not already be dead.

It's so unbalanced from the show's own history. It's not that that story couldn't work. But it's majorly hampered by the fact that the show puts so much focus on the events of its own past which are staggeringly more important.

I love that it's the "Anti-Discovery." I was really sick of having two straight seasons of Micheal Burnham saves the Federation/Galaxy/Multiverse. Good stakes in fiction are personal stakes.

That said, the Soji stuff is hinting at the possibility of something quite apocalyptic involving the synths.
 
I'm getting very bored with this show. My free trial of CBS expires tomorrow and I don't think I'm going to bother with "picard" until it finishes its run and then get another free week to watch at all once. I just don't care to keep up with it anymore.

The story is SO low stakes and so poorly paced. The entire point of this episode was, "And then a NEW member joins the gang" with absolutely zero narrative momentum.

Yes, yes, plenty of more backstory of marginal quality.

And one of the show's biggest issues is just how small in scope and stakes the actual story is. Picard returns to the Romulan colony years after a catastrophic event and the major fallout from his inability to help.

"So, Picard, why have you returned? What is this new mission?" Well, um, it's no longer about saving nearly a billion people....it's just one random android that may or may not already be dead.

It's so unbalanced from the show's own history. It's not that that story couldn't work. But it's majorly hampered by the fact that the show puts so much focus on the events of its own past which are staggeringly more important.
I'm curious how do you feel about the Mandalorian? Do you watch it? Because it's season was about the same length, but also had a lot of filler episodes, moreso than this I feel. The 4th episode in of Mando had a Seven Samurai remake. This episode of Picard, also the 4th, felt better than that.
I love that it's the "Anti-Discovery." I was really sick of having two straight seasons of Micheal Burnham saves the Federation/Galaxy/Multiverse. Good stakes in fiction are personal stakes.

That said, the Soji stuff is hinting at the possibility of something quite apocalyptic involving the synths.
Honestly they're blurring the lines, I spent half the episode wondering if Soji was Control.
 
Neither did I until I managed it. In fact, getting the stream to look like it was coming out the mouth was a happy accident.
all you need now is some bio-babble to explain why romulans vomit / spit orthogonally from their mouths
 
I love that it's the "Anti-Discovery." I was really sick of having two straight seasons of Micheal Burnham saves the Federation/Galaxy/Multiverse. Good stakes in fiction are personal stakes.

That said, the Soji stuff is hinting at the possibility of something quite apocalyptic involving the synths.

What if Picard unknowingly is about to save the multi-verse?;)
 
They'd better hurry up and resolve this destroyer plot because Season 3 of Discovery will show if it's such a big deal or not going by its timeframe in-universe.
 
I'm curious how do you feel about the Mandalorian? Do you watch it? Because it's season was about the same length, but also had a lot of filler episodes, moreso than this I feel. The 4th episode in of Mando had a Seven Samurai remake.

to me until episode 5 thatone was just randomly shooting people - if you binge them all you get a nice star wars feeling, though
 
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