The pacing of story and such feels more like it was built for a Netflix-like show where all of the episodes are available at once and you can sit down and binge watch it inside a day or two. Look at a series like Stranger Things where every episode is a small step in the overall story which isn't a big deal, the next step is right there for you to take! Not a week away.
Here, as you said, it seems like we've spent all of the episodes so far spending entire episodes introducing the characters. Picard. Soji. Rio, Elrond, etc. Next episode we'll probably spend talking about Seven.
When is our story going to get going?
Exactly right. I might feel differently if they dropped it all at once, but even with
Stranger Things, or others I like,
Lost In Space, Glow or
Mindhunter, they still reflect the necessity of having to keep your audience moving through a narrative all throughout, while introducing elements like new cast, exposition or backstory etc...
Whether it's binged or not, 4 hours is 4 hours. It's just amplified when you must spend 4 weeks as well, but conversely,
had this all been dropped at once, I might actually have bailed on it by now (Were it something other than Star Trek)
It's the sole fact of namesake that's bought me in & kept me around, & that feels exploitative to me, which is why I called it entitlement in my last post. They are knowingly propping up their deliberately slow production on the brand name. If this were any other show I personally found uninteresting like
Another Life, or
Carnival Row, I'd have already stopped watching.
It's also not like I'm an unforgiving audience. I even liked
The Umbrella Academy. I quite liked Amazon's
Hanna too &
The Boys wasn't too bad. If I had to rate
Picard based solely on its merit, among other shows in current production. I'd say that while it has superior production quality, it's actual entertainment value is just slightly below
Jack Ryan, which I just finished season 2 of, & it took longer than normal, because I found it to drag too, & had some less remarkable plot points as well.
I also have to begrudgingly admit that apart from Stewart himself, the other performances are falling quite short of all these other benchmark shows I cited. Now factor in that this show required a separate subscription, which only offered a minimal amount of content that might appeal to me, among which
Discovery has also been a mild disappointment similarly, & it's really bad form in my book. I already opted for this over some other subscriptions I might select like Hulu & Disney+, with their growing lineups.
It's a dog eat dog world in this new streaming paradigm, & I'm starting to get a serious feeling that this dog won't hunt. CBS just isn't competing well imho
