Spoilers Season 3 Cast Announcement
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Picard is in the same 'reality' as all the other previous TV series and movies, plus there are Enterprise-E and -E Captain's Yacht models in Picard's Quantum Archive in Season 1.
He served on the -D longer than the -E. He probably likes it more.
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Exactly. People are going to react more strongly to the image of the ship they saw in 176 hours of television and one movie than they would to the ship they only saw in three movies.
Why not? Picard has demonstrated an interest in familiar ships. The D he was on longer. He had a special place in his heart for the Stargazer. The most recent doesn't mean the best.
This seems to be really, really important to you.
Why not? For me, engaging with material as intended by the storyteller is part of appreciating the art in the first place.
Is the opposite important to you?
I don't need a storyteller to tell me how to think to enjoy a story. Once it is out there, it is up to each person how they interpret the material.
It doesn't dictate my enjoyment of the material.
To each their own. To engage with it in a way not intended by the author strikes me as disingenuous.
How do you get along when an author isn't around to tell you how to think?
I don't. Usually because what the author is intending about the story told is fairly plain. How I interpret it after the fact is up to me. But initially? Yeah, I'm taking the author's word for it. Calling them a liar gets me nowhere.
This is how I feel. Just flatly refusing to accept a story’s setting is its setting (the universe a story is in included) isn’t a matter of/has nothing to do with interpretation to me.
One can’t engage in material in good faith while refusing to accept what said material has presented.
So the only way to engage in a story in "good faith" is to just listen to the author? Then what's the point of even watching a show/reading a book/listening to music? If I have no engagement in the process then there is no reason for any of it to even exist.
I ask myself that question every day.
Man, I wonder where all this "respecting author intent" stuff was at when Paramount/CBS started adding Spock siblings even though both Gene Roddenberry and DC Fontana said he was an only child?
Selling a property will do that.
Also, after reading one is welcome to interpret it however they want. Before hand, assuming that it is in a different timeline, or whatever, is well missing a part of the story, at least to my view. It doesn't mean people don't engage. But if the initial reaction is "not in the same timeline/continuity/canon/etc." then part of the intent of the author is missed.
Vs. Spock whom changed multiple times since his inception, by different authors.
Why listen to the author when I read a story, or watch a show? Because they’re the ones who made the story, they’re the reason the story exists.
I’m not talking about an author mentioning their intended subtext in an interview, I’m not letting authors interpret their work for me, or tell me what their work should make me feel.
I’m just talking about accepting that the characters in the story, and the setting in the story, as they are given, without rejecting the basic and essential elements of what makes any story.
How? If I'm watching previews and seeing other material being put out, how am I missing part of the story? I can look at how they are handling something and deduce whether or not I can accept it as they are offering it.
To me, rejecting how they offer it misses that part. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. It's more a matter of what did the author intend at the outset.
Perhaps better put. To me, it strikes me as getting close to cynical of looking at a story and saying "I reject your base premise from the outset." I feel that basically is ignoring the author's intent and will remove a part, however so small, of the enjoyment as the author intended.
