Yeah, his actually explains why the casting was bad: making a character notice the resemblance in-universe was stupid.
Why did Q enlist Soong's help to kill Renee Picard in Picard Season 2?
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It possibly wouldn’t have been stupid if the producers actually had an in-universe reason why that was. But they didn’t. Just like how Raffi thought she saw Elnor but was instead some Mexican dude who looked exactly like him, but without pointy ears. They didn’t bother to explain that either.
Better left unsaid. Great Aunt, cousin, granny...whatever is lame.
She saw a guy that made her think of Elnor. The mind plays tricks. Happens in real life.
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...seems reasonable explanation enough to me.
So, it comes back to do we have any reason to doubt what Q says? I know the people of Brax call him the "God of Lies", but why would he lie about this? To what end? Sometimes, the best explanation is the easiest one.
Do we really have any reason to doubt Q in this instance? I mean, I don't have enough time, patience, alcohol or weed to go through Picard season 2 again, but this conversation made me look up Tallinn's entry on Memory Alpha, and what they say there...
...seems reasonable explanation enough to me.
So, it comes back to do we have any reason to doubt what Q says? I know the people of Brax call him the "God of Lies", but why would he lie about this? To what end? Sometimes, the best explanation is the easiest one.
Didn't he lie about pretty much everything that season?
When it was revealed the character was also Romulan, Picard speculates she might be Laris's ancestor, which is as close to an explanation as we're likely to get.
There was also COVID protocols limiting how many actors they could have on set, so they doubled up some of the actors with another role.
I don't trust Q. He's a dick who would rather obfuscate than teach. His presence is an irritant, supposedly overcome by the actor's charm yet fails to be additive except on rare occasions when he decides to actually give a damn.
In short, he's that aloof father figure that makes me cringe.
The logic of that assumption makes no sense to me. "We can only have seven actors on set today, so let's make sure one of them was also in season one..."?
Potentially, though this could be pure bs on my part, it was easier to get Bradley up to speed on CBS specific protocols for COVID due to an established working relationship.
I understand that. My post wasn't clear. My point was that Soong murdered Tallinn and got away with it. He was put up to that by Q.
Actually it was more a case of "this actor is in the season anyway, let's have them play another role to cut down on how many are involved this year." Same reason why they had Isa Briones also play Soong's daughter. Doctor Who did something similar in its COVID season.
I didn’t particularly like Orla Brady’s Laris character anyway. She wasn’t playing her as a Romulan so much as she was playing her as an Irish person with fake pointy ears pretending to be a Romulan. Talinn was by far the better character, even though her only reason for existing was to die instead of Renee.
I imagine Soong was collateral damage because Q lost his powers, and Q saw Soong as the means to the end he wanted with Picard.
At the end of one episode, Q is talking to himself which watching Renee Picard. My interpretation of the scene was Q was trying to influence Renee to do/think what he wanted using his powers. However, when he snaps his fingers and nothing happens, he says "Most unfortunate" or something like that, indicating his omnipotence was unexpectedly fizzing out. Cue Adam Soong.
Yeah, Season 2 is a bit all over the place.
Confederation Laris was supposed to travel back in time with Picard and gang. Someone in the executive ranks nixed this plot element for... reasons. The actress was likely already contracted as a season 2 regular, so she takes the Gary 7-ish role.
The Gary 7 agents were apparently pitched by Michael Chabon, so would have been baked into the season 2 plot from the very beginning.
The Gary 7 agents were apparently pitched by Michael Chabon, so would have been baked into the season 2 plot from the very beginning.
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