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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"
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When seeking people for a mission, especially a dangerous mission where you might not come back, it's good to consider different factors:
Who can help you? (Not just who wants to help you)
Who doesn't have anything to lose?
Who can you absolutely not do without because of their skill set?
Who doesn't mind breaking the rules?
That's not the TNG crew. They just aren't those kinds of people.
They're settled into whatever kind of life they're in now. Whereas Picard hated what his life had become and knows he's probably going to die soon. That's made him different from his former crew.
If you're really someone's friend, you don't ask them to potentially throw away their lives just for you, just because you're willing to throw away yours.
Who can help you? (Not just who wants to help you)
Who doesn't have anything to lose?
Who can you absolutely not do without because of their skill set?
Who doesn't mind breaking the rules?
That's not the TNG crew. They just aren't those kinds of people.
They're settled into whatever kind of life they're in now. Whereas Picard hated what his life had become and knows he's probably going to die soon. That's made him different from his former crew.
If you're really someone's friend, you don't ask them to potentially throw away their lives just for you, just because you're willing to throw away yours.
She's trying to annoy someone who would know stuff like that just as she would have done to her father.
Elnor sounds like an Elf name from Lord of the Rings. He bears a strong resemblance to Legolas of the same.
Give him a sword and he gains a Star Wars flair. All marketing.
Liked seeing Seven again. The problem is Stewart is no longer young and can't do much. The Fellowship of the Ring is gathering .
Three episodes in, and Picard and the gang have finally rocketed off into space for what will hopefully be some good adventure. But first, it's off to meet the newest member of the crew, Elnor, a young Romulan from Picard's past who's also trained in sword combat. Will he add an interesting flavor to Trek? We'll soon find out.
Anyway, so far, so good. I think that this is the kind of show that a lot of people predicted that we'd get when it was first announced. All we need now is for Picard to put his interest in archeology to good use.
What's brewing so far? A number of you predicted early on that Dr. Jurati is up to no good and the last episode suggested just that. So far it looks like she's either being manipulated or is working as a spy. Any other possibilities? Time or astute viewing will tell.
I have a strong feeling it won’t be done til series 2. And series 2 may be more returning cast heavy. This is the ‘I thought i could do it without you’ series.
"Why don't these fictional characters act consistently and logically...just like real people do in every case?"
because that would be predictable and where's the fun in that?
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I don't know. I never heard of any of them prior to Picard.
I take it you haven't watch much TV or movies over the past decade,
Picard has stated repeatedly that he considers Raffi the best and brightest for the job he needed her to do. Which of the people you want do the job that she does? Or are young trained experts fighting the Tal Shiar? Who are experts in synths? Who operate an off the books ship?
Allison was pretty amazing in Snowpiercer. Harry also was the bad guy on 2 years of Mr. Mercedes.
Even the characters on TOS didn't always act predictably. The writers in the late '60s had the sense to shake things up from time to time and allow the characters to act out of sync with their previously established behavioral patterns so as to make things a little interesting depending on the story.
The only person on Picard's payroll is Rios. Everyone else is a volunteer and an expert in their field. But you want a TNG reunion of characters who aren't suited to this mission for a variety of reasons.
Kirk was once fine with killing off the last remaining member of a sentient species just to prove a point and save his crew, not giving a damn about how intelligent or endangered it was. Admittedly that was just the sixth episode of TOS and only the fifth to feature Kirk but still, it was not in line with how Kirk would behave for most of that series nor in the feature films(with the exception of the Klingons in TUC and that was based largely on his anger at Klingons for having murdered his son David).
I've watched both, none of them have stuck out in anything I've seen.
So no Newsroom, no Penny Dreadful no Mr. Mercedes, no Snowpiercer, no Scott Pigrim Vs. the World, no Hail Caesar, no American Horror Story, no Merlin, Musketeer or Merlin (for Cabrera), and Michelle Hurd's been around alot as well, Daredevil, Blindspot, Hawai 5-0, Ash vs. the Evil Dead. These are actors who have all been in a whole lot more than any TNG actor in the past 10 years including Stewart.
Nope for me either.
Of those, I’ve only seen some of Daredevil. I’m aware of most of the rest but have had little time in the past ten years to watch TV. And there’s been a lot more than that to watch. Not a knock or rebuttal. More an observation. Same might well apply to BillJ
I guess this is what it means by peak TV. You can have regular acting gigs in multiple movies and TV series across multiple genres including scifi for over a decade and Star Trek fans will have never heard of you or seen your work. Or, it leads me to imagine that Star Trek fans don't watch much other than Star Trek.
