This doesn't have to necessarily be true.
Not fleshing out a character doesn't make them a reward or trophy, it would suggest that it's baggage the viewer is bringing to a literal blank slate.
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This doesn't have to necessarily be true.
Not fleshing out a character doesn't make them a reward or trophy, it would suggest that it's baggage the viewer is bringing to a literal blank slate.
That's not true at all. I remember a few people pointing it out, calling it laziness etc
Yeah, it was laziness/budget/lack of time etc. that they used DSC assets for a Short Trek taking place 150 years after DSC, but that wasn’t my point. My point was that those ships didn’t look out of place in that time period.
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Yeah, they really did. Like a sore thumb.
I completely disagree. If you hadn't seen them in DSC beforehand, you wouldn't have known the difference.
Ah, the Romulan marriage idea.
Context also matters.
Picard and Beverly could choose not to renew their marriage after a while. The 7 year itch idea, and they amicably part ways after 35 years. Then Picard chooses someone else to marry.
Maybe the identity of that person is left as a mystery to be followed up on later on in a different series.
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I don't think Sir Patrick sees the mystery wife as some kind of wife that shouldn't be seen on screen because she's unimportant - quite the contrary. His intention seems to be for her identity to be deliberately obscured, hence why he wants for his wife to voice her. So that people are left wondering and speculating who she is. (And for all the Picard/Laris and Picard/Crusher shippers to join forces and pick up the pitchforks, lol.)
I really like the idea of Picard's wife being... somebody we don't know.
Feels like the boat sailed with Crusher and it would feel odd for them to get together. Laris kind of came out of nowhere and I think she was what Picard needed at the moment, but maybe not long term.
I also think someone unknown is better than either Laris or Crusher, no doubt about it. I just think he should have a husband instead of a wife
I don't know what this refers to? Is this from the bar scene at the end of S3?
It's a scene that wasn't even filmed.
"It is dusk at Jean-Luc's vineyard. His back is to us as he takes in the view, his dog at his side. Then, off-screen, a woman's loving voice is heard: 'Jean-Luc? Supper's ready!' Is it Beverly Crusher's voice? Laris's? Someone we don't know? It isn't made clear." He also reveals his real-life wife, Sunny Ozell, "was set to record the lines." Then concludes as, "Heeding his wife's call, Jean-Luc turns around, says to his dog, 'C'mon, boy,' and heads inside. Dusk fades to night, and Picard fades into history."
I think it would feel weird for him to be in love with yet another women in like 3 different seasons in a role. First Laris then back to Crusher and then someone we never seen. Also what is even the point of creating a mystery lover for Picard? It's not exactly a mystery that is built into the main essence of the character or the show. It didn't work with Antonia and KIrk in Generations so I doubt it would work here. People I think would want closure for the character and if your do want to end a mystery it's got to be over something more interesting some women he falls in love with that we don't even get a chance to now a character. A proper Mystery would Picard finding out he won't die like predicted because of his Android body or Picard does die and is greeted by Q. Is it really Q or a illusion. Is Q going to making him immortal like the Q. Does this mean the Q really are Gods. All questions that people can speculate for a long time after it is all over.
I'll admit, this one cool looking ship, especially due to the "Engineering Pod".In my humble opinion, the only truly attractive Starfleet ship they introduced in Picard was the Intrepid. It looks how I expected a 25th century Starship to look, while still being unique and interesting.
The Titan, while a beautiful 23rd century design by the master Bill Krause, still doesn't work for me as a 25th century ship.
The Excelsior II design is rather hideous, in my opinion. While the Stargazer looks overly complicated in it's design.
The copy/paste fleet design from season one it's rather generic and dull, and pretty much everything else is just Star Trek online designs. The less said about them, the better.
The Q idea would of course be the ideal ending, no doubt. Q and Jean-Luc should book-end his character's arc, it would be the perfect closure from Farpoint to now. I'd vote for this ending anytime. The PIC writers even recognized this in season 2 when they named Q as the one relationship Jean-Luc has that is most important to the character.
Unfortunately, Sir Patrick seems hell-bent on giving Jean-Luc an ending that features him in a happy relationship with someone. I'm guessing this is partly because he thinks he and Jean-Luc are basically the same person these days and what worked for him in his personal life will work for Jean-Luc as well. (I very much disagree with this but hey, I'm used to disagreeing with Sir Patrick about pretty much anything regarding Jean-Luc, lol.)
He could have called her ‘Antonia,’ and the audience who were savvy enough to get the reference, would know that Picard is still in the Nexus and never left despite him thinking that he did.
I thought Antonia was Kirk's fantasy woman on a horse?
She was. Picard took his fantasy lady after Kirk died on Veridian III. But Kirk was just a fantasy too, as he really died on the Enterprise-B.
How long has it taken to roll cameras on Section 31?
Paramount moves at a glacial pace, even during the best of times.
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