Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x08 - "Surrender"
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Well, if the mystery is complex and amazing it’ll be rushed in the time they have left. So I’m fine with simple. As long as it sets up a backdrop that can be satisfying.
I mean, if they go way out there like Pah Wraiths it is too much story to unpack now.
But if it is just straight up old school Borg cube it’ll be meh as a reveal but the pay off will be the best of both worlds redux moment and all the characters reacting to it. I’m just ready for them to all get to unpacking their reaction to it.
My only requirement is that Riker at some point yells “Red Alert!” Or I guess “Red Door!”
I mean, if they go way out there like Pah Wraiths it is too much story to unpack now.
But if it is just straight up old school Borg cube it’ll be meh as a reveal but the pay off will be the best of both worlds redux moment and all the characters reacting to it. I’m just ready for them to all get to unpacking their reaction to it.
My only requirement is that Riker at some point yells “Red Alert!” Or I guess “Red Door!”
Heh ... Not anymore.
I guess this is my thing then. Either Vadic is incompetent or the mysterious Pah Wraith/Borg/Armus/whomever boss is. lol
Star Trek is FULL of talking about deaths. It's how the heroes win.
And usually it is after attempts to resolve it peacefully and other exhaustion and it is considered a failure.
Armus : Save your compassion! It's revolting. You offer it like a prize, when in fact, it's an insult.
Capt. Picard : Because you feel unworthy.
Armus : You overrate your gift. You Humans are puny, weak.
Capt. Picard : But our spirit is indomitable.
Armus : And still you die from a flake of my power
The weakness of Armus
Counselor Deanna Troi : You can't hide the emptiness from me. The others - the ones who hurt you, who left you alone, rejected. The ones who make you so angry
Pitch Meetings just put out a video that has the line, "If you just kind of never answer questions, people will keep coming back for sequels." I feel like that's been one of the rules in the writer's room for this season.
It's odd because they skipped over the Riker torture scene entirely which would have been an opportunity to showcase that side of her, to preserve the surprise of having her be able to take over the ship. Maybe they thought having her execute random crew would be enough, but to me it just felt out of left field considering all the other opportunities she had to do the same thing in this season.
She's nuts, but she's also scared of who she's taking orders from... so she can be rational when it's needed.
To me anyway, it'd make more sense if she was sadistic from the start and her boss has to reign her in to make sure she doesn't kill Jack.
Or myopic.
Everyone's forgotten that the first changeling on the Titan outright tried to kill him
This episode was meh. I loved the Data/Lore scenes and liked the Troi/Riker scenes. Seeing the old crew around the conference room table at the end was awesome. Everything else was forgettable.
I’m happy the Shrike is gone so we don’t have to listen to that stupid boat horn noise or whatever it was.
I’m happy the Shrike is gone so we don’t have to listen to that stupid boat horn noise or whatever it was.
I give it a 9 only because the Jack mystery is still dragging on for another week. I suspect he is part Borg or Pahwraith or something. Enjoyable episode.
Oh right, during the sabotage thing. Wow. lol
I guess why would you write the character that way though? I'm fine with villains being insane, but I'd like them to be competent... because the alternative is that it makes the protagonists look pretty dumb too. Like not anticipating that Vadic might have override codes, for example. Or not outright killing her the moment they saw her, if that was their intention and goal anyway.
Why not? I find it fun, fascinating and interesting when villains and heroes struggle to see different perspectives. So consumed with their goal, or tragedy or trauma or pain, that they end up trapped themselves.
A design recommended by Admiral Picard. In case a child comes on the bridge!
The Oberth class had something similar already, we saw it in The Naked Now
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