I like Season 3 of PIC, I'm just more baffled that it features almost all of the same issues some folks complain about in other Kurtzman era shows, but those are rendered moot simply by featuring the TNG cast. Maybe those people need to be honest with themselves and admit their perceived issues didn't actually matter and the true complaint is they don't care about Picard as a character unless he's surrounded by Riker, Data et al.
Some fans will forgive almost anything as long as it tickles their nostalgia buttons.
Well, my response was that anything that wasn't "Oh! Remember THIS?" from Pic (esp. 3) was quite often hot garbage.
I wouldn't disagree with that. All three seasons of PIC had disappointing endings, IMO, but S3 coasted on getting the band back together. The first season of DSC had a bad ending too. (I'm rewatching the 2nd season of DSC now, as I never saw the last 2-3 episodes of the season before. We'll see if that ends well. I don't have high hopes, as I'm still not interested in the Red Angel mystery.)
I don't think Icheb's death or presence was really necessary for the Season 1 narrative of "PICARD" in the first place.
Icheb was introduced long after I stopped watching VOY, so the only reason I knew the character's name in the first place was because he gave Janeway a book report that established that Kirk's 5YM ended in 2270.
My reaction to Icheb's death was twofold:
1) Anger at TrekCore because they spoiled his death on Twitter the night that episode first streamed. (I unfollowed them for that), and:
2) Being really grossed out because I was eating pasta when suddenly I'm watching a dude's eye get gouged out.
I trust that people felt the same about Rene Picard after "Family" when Generations came around, correct?
I
WISH GEN had broken our hearts about Rene and Robert's deaths. Having them die offscreen and Picard just getting a subspace message about it was the least interesting way to present their deaths. Have Picard travel to the moment of their deaths and fail to save them, so we can get a sense of what is driving him and what he has to give up to defeat Soran.
That's like saying nobody gave a fuck about Naomi Wildman or whoever...
Present!
Jason Todd was beaten to death with a crowbar by the Joker.
Now
THAT I was upset about, but mainly out of fondness for the versions of Jason Todd that Doug Moench and Mike W. Barr wrote rather than the annoying punk Jim Starlin turned him into. (For the record, I like Jim Starlin as a person, and he's a very pleasant interview, but I think he was a crappy Batman writer.)
I didn't miss Jason that much (as interesting as having a delinquent Robin was), but I did love how it drove Batman afterwards.
I hated that too. It just made him a one-dimensional angry guy all the time. I liked the Pre-Crisis Batman who would scare criminals but drop the act around his friends like Alfred, Gordon, Robin, and the JLA. But that guy is long gone and probably isn't ever coming back.
Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae. Open your mind! Be a 'Star Trek' fan and open your mind and say, 'Where does Star Trek want to take me now'.
Damn, Nimoy got it.
When fans talk about "unaltered past" they don't usually give a toss about the characters. If the NCC numbers match their 1974 Star Fleet Technical Manual, the Hull design is in line with their 1994 TNG Technical Manual and the ship has a big wraparound TV instead of a window they'll be okay with it.
Somewhere, James Dixon's ears are burning.
