Even if they're not blood-related the extra-creepy way they interact is still gross. Alicia Silverstone's infatuation with her step-brother Paul Rudd in Clueless wasn't gross. As if.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"
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This is the dedication and passion we need to bring around a bright future for humanity!
It doesn't make me uncomfortable, per se, but it absolutely does ruin any appeal Rizzo may have had. To me, she's just a mustache-twirling creep. I wish someone would kill her off already. Maybe Oh?
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In no way is Picard "making up for past mistakes." His current mission is only peripherally related to those past events in convoluted ways and in no way is he personally going on a journey of atonement.
Yes. She is very one-dimensional.
This one had a whole "Familienpackung" (don't think there's a clear analogue here) of acid capsules in his mouth!all you need now is some bio-babble to explain why romulans vomit / spit orthogonally from their mouths
I appreciate that interpretation. But it's not landing for me, mostly because the show is so caught up in endless backstory with very little forward narrative and because the themes are so disconnected from the events of what happened 14 years ago.
I don't think it really matters, it pretty obvious to me that she has been taking advantage of Narek in more ways than sexually for many years and she does it simply because she can.
He most likely started out enjoying it at first but as time went on she became much more abusive and he began to realize that she wasn't going to let him get away unless he died.
The story has failed to be interesting to the audience.
He's more coming to terms with his past arrogance, which is a kind of atonement. Before it was, "If I can't save everyone, I won't save anyone." now it's, "Maybe I can't save everyone, but I might still be able to save someone."
That was kinda/sorta hinted at in episode 4. A little. But it feels like too little, too late. And I can't believe that Picard would be so awful, stupid and petty to have literally walked away from EVERYTHING just because he got into a snit with Starfleet. That's horrid characterization.
The story has failed for *you*.
The story has brilliantly succeeded for many others.
And that's fine, but you cannot project your feelings on it to the audience as a whole.
He came to a full dead-head stop in the mud.
THIS is why I come to this board every day
Ummm ... once he lost the resources of Star Fleet, how would he be able to do anything at all about it?
family-size package
My one failing is that I assume everyone else is on my level.
I'm not talking about a correction of everything that went wrong through his resignation. That would be hardly possible, even more so with his now limited resources. That's why he does it in ways and opportunities that are open to him. The main opportunity opened up when Dahj found him and he realized that pretty quickly and took it. Seems pretty clear to me, especially after watching this fourth episode.
I can. It's entirely his style.
He went rogue and defied Starfleet to protect the Baku, thus the very title of "Insurrection". He passionately disagreed with Starfleets decision to abandon the Romulans and he banked on the bluff of losing him would be enough leverage to force the Federation/Starfleet to accept his alternative.
Starfleet called his bluff and he at that point had a choice of remaining strong in his convictions and walking away, as his first duty is to the truth, or allowing his bluff to be called and thus suddenly he is now known to be able to be brow beaten into submission.
How do we know it's really him? :O
