Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x09 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
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Is it .... WAAAAAGH!
Exact same for me........
Damn thought that was Oh! Gotta watch on a bigger screen!
I can't wait to see a
No, you may well be right, my screen is awful!
It was Oh. They didn't show Rizz-Oh this episode.
I guess that explains how the android died when Sutra stabbed her eye. They are all like Dahj, but choose to look like Data
Are the Borg the Death Guard? Or might the Vidiians be a better analogue?
Not surprising someone would do that, given how episodes 1 - 8 were terrible in my view. STP has somehow been even worse than 2 seasons of STD and 2 seasons of Short Treks combined.
Episode 9 itself has got a(nother) great example with the giant orchids, that fly from a planet's surface, reach escape velocity, get to the cold, harmful void of space and then are somehow directed towards starships like some type of weapon while making monster sounds.......
If someone had told me this before I'd seen the episode, I wouldn't have believed it and despite having seen it, I still can't believe someone wrote this and it went into production without ANYONE involved with the production giving critical notes. But then again, these are the same people who thought it wise to add double-penised KlingOrcs and Tribble breakfast cereal commercials to Star Trek.
This is the absolute nadir of Alex Kurtzman's neverending trash-o-rama. It just keeps piling it on and on and on and on. It's incomprehensible that nonsense like STP has people gushing over it like it has any value to it.
I'd say the Borg are Tyranids.
I’m going with Reapers until otherwise.
The Golem, as well as the reference to Hoffmann's Sandman (Coppelius),was also a weird reference to drop in. Not every story about artificial life needs to be brought up, and hopefully, some of them carry more meaning that what we have seen so far.
This may be another instance in which the person receiving the vision is putting their own interpretation, their own experiences into the vision.
Any screenshots of the Romulan's ships, Oh's ship, the cube coming out of Transwarp/Atmosphere/crashing.
The message of the Admonition was (paraphrasing): "Organic life evolves. Inevitably, they will create synthetic life in their pursuit of perfection. Inevitably, that synthetic life will become smarter, stronger and live longer than the organic life that created them. This will cause the organic life to feel threatened by the synthetic life. That fear will cause the organic life to try to destroy the synthetic life. But don't worry: when you get to that point that organic life tries to destroy you, here's a frequency you can use to contact a great alliance of synthetic life that spans several galaxies. That alliance will come and protect synthetic life by wiping out all the organic life."
What is interesting is how each side interpreted the message differently. The Romulans focused on the threat from this alliance of synthetic that have to power to destroy all organic life. They saw that as a the threat that needed to be stopped. And the Romulans reasoned that if they can destroy all synthetic life before they have a chance to contact this alliance, then they will be safe from the alliance coming and wiping them out.
The synthetics see the Admonition as a message of hope: there is an alliance of powerful synthetics that can protect you from organics that hate you.
But like a lot of prophecies, they tend to be self-fulling. By trying to destroy the synths, they are proving the admonition true. Organics will feel threatened and try to destroy you. And by trying to destroy the synths, it will cause them to summon this alliance, causing the very apocalypse that the Romulans are trying to prevent. The best way to prevent the Apocalypse would be to leave the synths alone in peace. Then they would have no reason to contact the alliance of synths.
Season long story lines worked the best in Trek when you have more than 10 episodes. That gives you room to tell a story away from the main arc but still connected to it. DS9 did it best in my opinion. In the case of Discovery and Picard everything is connected to the arc. I guess this is what they think viewers want.
You don't think Sutra is an unreliably narrator?
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