You know that hate watching isn't good for you. Maybe not waste your time on it if you don't like it? Life's too short for time wasted, especially on whole series' worth of television or movies.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
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I think it was a combination of the two reasons.
They were also afraid that the TNG uniforms wouldn't look good on the big screen, so they borrowed ones from DS9. Yet they didn't have enough for everyone, so uniforms were mismatched, and sometimes the same character changed into a different one for no apparent reason.
Neither made much sense, lol.
It wasn’t a widescreen set, it was a TV screen set. They did lighting and additions for Gen, but the set was eight years old so they went with new — as well as making room for standing sets for Voyager. Film sets aren’t standing usually.
Phil Coulson in Agents of Shield being a prime example
Exactly.
I also never wanted a TNG reunion show. I can't stand memberberries. They do nothing for me.
All this gushing about old ships...
Unfortunately, it seems you have to choose between pest and cholera when it comes to Star Trek stories.
- A show with nostalgic drivel and memberberries.
or
- Hypermeotional cry fest in space.
(or a mindless pew-pew action in a Jar Jar movie)
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In "The Gambit" Picard was on a lone archaeological tour. They could have used a similar starting point.
I didn't watch the first two seasons (because they were unwatchable). The only reason I watched this one was because I liked the original cast. Was a 100% nostalgia sideshow.
Yep, the bridges were built for TV ratios, which is why when they're mostly constructed 1:1 like the new Enterprise bridge for this episode, they seem small ..a 4th wall break by Riker/Jon Frakes pokes fun at it
That’s because they did make entirely new uniforms, then changed their mind as it made no sense, so mix and matched the two ‘current’ ones instead. It’s part of why the Geordi torture scenes were deleted — wrong uniform (the new ones) were used. The action figures were in the new uniform too.
A desire for revenge and anger also sometimes trumps that "hold up" thought process.
IMAX basically is 1:1, and film stock really is square if it's open matte...
I really want to have Trek shift more to what Enterprise Season 4 did. Just have mini-arcs/miniseries length stories. Don't start out saying you need to fill up 10 episodes and work from there, come up with a story, and then write until it's done. Maybe stagger releases too, so you could have say a 5-episode arc, a pause, then a three parter, then a pause, two standalones, etc.
I feel like this season is much better paced than Seasons 1/2 of Picard (and any of the seasons of Discovery) but honestly it could have easily been 8, 7, or even 6 episodes without losing much.
I don't like being made to feel dead inside by one of my favorite series. But if nostalgia is all people want then I guess they got what they wanted. I'm one of the few who loved S1 because it did new things with old characters.
I really enjoyed the earlier episodes of S3 but when it got to "let's all stand around reminiscing about the good old days while the universe is on the verge of destruction (yet again), I think I may not bother with next week. I'll just read spoilers and wait for SNW.
Murky.
I could be wrong, but I thought they changed their minds because they thought they looked bad?
Right. I believe they literally had Frakes wear Avery Brooks' uniform.
well, you aren’t missing much, but it will help with some of the stuff you are grumping about. S2 was awful, but at least has precendent for mysterious doors. Much of this season has been doing a good job of poking fun at or repairing daft ness from s1 and s2, but very subtly.
It's not that nostalgia is all people want. It's that the scumbags making this dreck are such creative and talent black holes that pathetic nostalgic callbacks are literally all they're capable of doing. ANYTHING new they do will be BAD. It's pathetic.
Just started watching, looks like a few of our guesses were correct
It’s part of why they looked bad — they were like a mix of TOS movie maroons and TNG, and then they also realised they had two other Trek shows to worry about. The FC uniforms gave less of a problem I imagine.
I hear ya. But I’ve come this far. I’ll finish the voyage. Might as well at this point.