Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x05 - "Imposters"
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Episode was fine. Relatable heartbreak between Ro and Picard. The minute she handed him her earring I knew she was dead.
Everyone acts shocked when Starfleet is "compromised at the highest level" - fucks fucking sake guys, your head of security was a fucking Romulan two seasons ago
Everyone acts shocked when Starfleet is "compromised at the highest level" - fucks fucking sake guys, your head of security was a fucking Romulan two seasons ago
Wasn't that the only time Michelle Forbes appeared with DS9-style Bajoran prosthetics, without those "angry eyebrow" parts?From TNG Pre-emptive Strike
My general negative opinion of the story premise of this season of Picard (not the execution because I will concede this past week's episode was excellent) is probably severely influenced by the fact that Beverly Crusher was my major teenage crush in TNG. So I'm just horrified in the direction they took her character, hiding Jack from Picard, etc. Gates seems very supportive and upbeat of where they took her character online so I wouldn't debate with the writers and the actress herself over what's true to Crusher's character or whatever, but yeah...
In some ways it hits worse than say, Luke over at the Last Jedi because while I like the Luke Skywalker character, obviously as a straight man there isn't more to it than that. But with the Beverly Crusher character, yeah, it hits a lot worse for me. And at least with Luke, Mark Hamill basically said he totally disagreed with Rian Johnson's take on the character before Disney shut him up. With Crusher, I have to accept that how I've been seeing the character and how Gates has been seeing her character all these years has likely not been the same.
Interestingly enough Michael Dorn let slip that he disagreed with some scenes about Worf in S3 here, but I'm not sure what those are yet. Will be curious to find out, maybe it will be obvious in future episodes.
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My general negative opinion of the story premise of this season of Picard (not the execution because I will concede this past week's episode was excellent) is probably severely influenced by the fact that Beverly Crusher was my major teenage crush in TNG. So I'm just horrified in the direction they took her character, hiding Jack from Picard, etc. Gates seems very supportive and upbeat of where they took her character online so I wouldn't debate with the writers and the actress herself over what's true to Crusher's character or whatever, but yeah...
In some ways it hits worse than say, Luke over at the Last Jedi because while I like the Luke Skywalker character, obviously as a straight man there isn't more to it than that. But with the Beverly Crusher character, yeah, it hits a lot worse for me. And at least with Luke, Mark Hamill basically said he totally disagreed with Rian Johnson's take on the character before Disney shut him up. With Crusher, I have to accept that how I've been seeing the character and how Gates has been seeing her character all these years has likely not been the same.
Interestingly enough Michael Dorn let slip that he disagreed with some scenes about Worf in S3 here, but I'm not sure what those are yet. Will be curious to find out, maybe it will be obvious in future episodes.
Your teenage crush has gone grey, mine has gone boom.
Well, he killed a lot of people in cold blood. While in the context of the situation and the character it's perfectly justifiable, it's just something that didn't happen in the old tv shows (that was a different time). Maybe that's where his perplexity lies?
Rewatched Preemptive Strike last night and I feel like it fits perfectly with what we see in Imposters in relation to Picard, Ro and Riker.
I have no problem with anyone going grey. On that note, looking forward to Carol Kane appearing in Strange New Worlds. Unless they make her character sell out the Enterprise to the Klingons, sabotage Pike's cadet vessel, beam Number One into space, and cheat at kadis-kot.
I suspect that, as an actress, McFadden is simply thrilled at finally being given something to do and meaty, dramatic scenes to play. As opposed to just being a warm and reassuring presence in sickbay.
She's a changeling. It's the new trick. The changeling impersonates the original to throw off that the original is ALSO a changeling.
I have no problem with anyone going grey. On that note, looking forward to Carol Kane appearing in Strange New Worlds. Unless they make her character sell out the Enterprise to the Klingons, sabotage Pike's cadet vessel, beam Number One into space, and cheat at kadis-kot.
My childhood crushes were usually villains and femme fatales -- Catwoman, Angelique, etc -- so I don't need to worry about them going bad.
Clearly the nose-bone gradually dissolves with age!Wasn't that the only time Michelle Forbes appeared with DS9-style Bajoran prosthetics, without those "angry eyebrow" parts?
I think that was explained this week, wasn't it? They are a potential evolution of the DS9 changelings, and they can replicate internal organs and fluids very well?
My childhood crushes were usually villains and femme fatales -- Catwoman, Angelique, etc -- so I don't need to worry about them going bad.
Same...I was a big fan of Diana the lizard alien in "V" for example!
If Kirk were here, he'd point out the absurdity of the changelings becoming the solids they hate so much to fight solids, and they'd all just kill themselves in shame. Time for a Shatner appearance!
Wait until the Veridian 4 people dig up the remains of a humanoid buried there.
10/10 I really like this one.
Never thought I'd ever get a sequel to Preemptive Strike. It was good to see Michelle Forbes reprise the role of Ro Laren, and her performance told a lot about her struggles since TNG without saying too much. I'm sorry she died.
So these Changelings seem more evolved than the ones encountered in DS9? Could they be augmented Changelings?
I don't know what is going with Jack. Is the Alice Krige Borg Queen in his head?
Vulcan mobster, why not? We've already see Vulcan militants in the Maquis and separatists in TNG and DISCO.
Never thought I'd ever get a sequel to Preemptive Strike. It was good to see Michelle Forbes reprise the role of Ro Laren, and her performance told a lot about her struggles since TNG without saying too much. I'm sorry she died.
So these Changelings seem more evolved than the ones encountered in DS9? Could they be augmented Changelings?
I don't know what is going with Jack. Is the Alice Krige Borg Queen in his head?
Vulcan mobster, why not? We've already see Vulcan militants in the Maquis and separatists in TNG and DISCO.
Hey, don't forget when she went all orgasmic with a ghost!
