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Is Picard's Chateau French enough?
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The chateau is a Mary--no, I can't say it.
search your feelings, you know you have to say it! And together, we can rule the universe as Mary and ...
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Marie-Suzette
But that’s your contention then? To erase French design in favor of Italian because that’s preferable than giving a nod to a production fluff-up?
So you vote tantrum — got it.
Darn right! They make it for MY entertainment, and as a fan I have a right for it to look how I think it should look!!!!!!!
What fluff up? Hanelle Culpepper wanted to shoot in france but that got nixed because it was too expensive. So they went for a less expensive options. The house used to represent the chateau in 'Family' was a private residence in Encino, California. Maybe the people living there didn't want their lives disrupted by a film crew. So they picked a spot that was affordable and more importantly available. Those two factors outweigh the need to appease trekkies who need that amount of visual continuity.
Seriously, if you look at actual photos of French vineyards you will see they all tend to look very different from each other and some even look like the chateau picard seen in STP.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous nitpicks.
Erase French design? WTF! Perhaps you have not noticed, but everyone else seems to be arguing that somehow France will be unrecognizable in 300 years, therefore any actual analysis of the production choices surrounding the Picard estate is pointless. All I am acknowledging is that they can make whatever wacky predictions they want. All my previous statements stand on how I feel about the Frenchness of Château Picard.
Yes, fluff up. As opposed to royal fuck-up, which this wasn’t but “fans” would have rationalized as desperately as if they were being paid to. They’ve already done better in choosing a house, and now they’ve gone backward. Little more than a matt painting or whatever they use now could have fixed the issue well enough if they couldn’t afford a better location. Christ, there was more CG in one scene of PIC than there was in the entire series of TNG. And, again, the exterior is one thing and the interior another. Ridiculous nitpicks? Excuse me for noticing? Go pick apart Romulan ridges in my other thread if that’s more up your alley.
Thats their rationalization, not reality, and Paris still looks pretty French to me, and it was probably lost to nuclear annihilation earlier. It isn’t that TPTB came up with a sophisticated understanding of future French design. They just fluffed up this detail.
And, Jesus H. Christ, why does this one get people this angry? I’d it because this one is rooted in reality whereas the rest of the things we nitpick are fiction?
Yes, ridiculous nitpicks. It is absolutely, mind-boggingly ridiculous to get bent out of shape over the look of a house. There is no particular look that a french vineyard needs to have. Get a grip, man. The production team needed a vineyard, they picked a vineyard.
It gets people angry because it is a daft thing to be upset about it. It's trekkie pedantics taken to the nth degree and it comees across as nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking.
In the end, nitpicking is better when accompanied with laughter than clenched fists.
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No way, this is serious business.
I prefer an ape of the species pan troglodytes to do my nitpicking. Espcially one on rollerskates.
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