Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

[Tuskin38]

New twitter thing
https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1212796053935808520

 

[NCC-73515]

I watch episodes of Discovery as soon I find out they're up and am able to watch. I drop everything else. I'm that much of a fan of it. The same is going to be the case with Picard. But...

... with other shows I watch, I just go online and if I read spoilers, I read spoilers. When I'm watching a show, I'm most anticipating the performances and the direction. I'm a terrible example to go with, now that I think about it...

Spoiler warnings, at least here, are put up the first two weeks an episode is out in the series' forum and six months everywhere else.

I'm the same - have to watch it immediately, and can't resist spoilers XD

 

[JD]

I've never had to avoid spoilers for a tv show before. How do people usually deal with it on social media, when new episodes are coming out every week? How long do people usually put up spoiler warnings for after each episode comes out?

I tend to just avoid any sites where they might openly post spoilers. I don't do social media regularly, but if I did I just wouldn't get on until I saw the episode.

New twitter thing
https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1212796053935808520

I wonder what the significance of the cube floating above his hand is?

 

[Reanok]

Interesting preview with Narek and what looks like a small borg cube. It looks like he's up to skullduggery in that brief preview when it comes to borg technology and drones.

 

[fireproof78]

It’s been 17 years since they last appeared in new onscreen content, seems a long enough gap!

Not for me, but no doubt it will appeal.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Interesting preview with Narek and what looks like a small borg cube. It looks like he's up to skullduggery in that brief preview when it comes to borg technology and drones.

It seems to be inscribed with Romulan/Vulcan writing, and is visible in one of the more recent promos (looks like a Rubik's cube).

 

[BillJ]

I just wish it wasn't on CBS all access, if it was on regular TV or another streaming service in the US I might watch it but its not worth the money to watch one show for me

There are also two seasons of Discovery, multiple Short Treks and a new version of The Twilight Zone.

 

[Paterson]

The show premieres on Amazon Prime January 24th (it premieres on CBS All Access January 23rd).

Will they have the prequel short as well?

 

[Llywela]

I've never had to avoid spoilers for a tv show before. How do people usually deal with it on social media, when new episodes are coming out every week? How long do people usually put up spoiler warnings for after each episode comes out?

I tend to blacklist a bunch of spoilers warnings on sites that enable blacklisting, but if that isn't possible, or if I can't trust people to tag their spoilers, I mostly just have to completely avoid social media until I've had a chance to watch whatever it is I don't want to be spoiled for. Going into hiding is for some things the only way to reliably avoid spoilers.

 

[NCC-73515]

I got the feeling that people here use spoiler tags very nicely, even more than I think would be necessary.
Not that it would prevent me from opening every one of them XD

 

[Paul Weaver]

I just wish it wasn't on CBS all access, if it was on regular TV or another streaming service in the US I might watch it but its not worth the money to watch one show for me

DS7 season 7 cost me $500. If you can’t be bothered paying as much as a trip to the cinema then that’s fine.

I’ve seen shows on US Tv, it’s awful - 40 minutes of adverts with the occasional scene between, and that’s before preemption. People actually pay for that too - in their medical costs, in their politician being owned by big money companies, and in their cable bills.

 

[Danja]

Will they have the prequel short as well?

That debuts January 9th on CBS All Access.

https://twitter.com/Alex_Kurtzman/status/1212900275104567296?s=20

 

[Tuskin38]

That debuts January 9th on CBS All Access.

I think they meant outside the US/Canada, since they’re responding to a post about amazon.

I’ve seen shows on US Tv, it’s awful - 40 minutes of adverts with the occasional scene between,

It’s 15-20 minutes of adverts, depending on the length of the show, my example being a 42 minute program.

 

[DaveyNY]

DS7 season 7 cost me $500. If you can’t be bothered paying as much as a trip to the cinema then that’s fine.

I’ve seen shows on US Tv, it’s awful - 40 minutes of adverts with the occasional scene between, and that’s before preemption. People actually pay for that too - in their medical costs, in their politician being owned by big money companies, and in their cable bills.

I was going to ask if DS-7 is the knockoff cheap version of DS-9, but then I saw you paid $500 dollars for it.

 

[Paul Weaver]

It’s 15-20 minutes of adverts

Oh well that's completely different then!

 

[fireproof78]

Never impacted my viewing experience.

I never understood the pushback against commercials...

 

[eschaton]

I never understood the pushback against commercials...

I was in a hotel over the holidays and watched the most "real TV" I have seen in ages - largely because my 10-year old daughter has become a big HGTV fan. I was shocked at how many more commercials - and how much less content - there was than what I had remembered in the past. In a few cases the gap between the commercial breaks was smaller than the commercial breaks themselves, with the "content" just being an extended tease which wasn't actually resolved until after the next commercial break.

 

[Kor]

Never impacted my viewing experience.

I never understood the pushback against commercials...

The time allotted to commercials has increased over the years, making the actual story shorter. So when an older show is rebroadcast on current TV, more of the story has to be cut out. And from the beginning of commercial sponsorship, the placement of commercial breaks forced the writers to structure the story around the breaks rather than more organically, resulting in forced moments of tension, and fade-outs and then fade-ins back to the exact same scene or sometimes even the exact same shot which look rather jarring when you watch the show outside of its original broadcast context, without the commercial breaks.
As I understand, on UK TV, adverts appear only in a short block at the top of the hour (or something like that) instead of repeatedly interrupting the show. That would be a much different viewing experience than US over-the-air commercial television.

Kor

 

[fireproof78]

Ok, That's fair, I guess.

I just move back and forth with little issue.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The time allotted to commercials has increased over the years, making the actual story shorter. So when an older show is rebroadcast on current TV, more of the story has to be cut out. And from the beginning of commercial sponsorship, the placement of commercial breaks forced the writers to structure the story around the breaks rather than more organically, resulting in forced moments of tension, and fade-outs and then fade-ins back to the exact same scene or sometimes even the exact same shot which look rather jarring when you watch the show outside of its original broadcast context, without the commercial breaks.
As I understand, on UK TV, adverts appear only in a short block at the top of the hour (or something like that) instead of repeatedly interrupting the show. That would be a much different viewing experience than US over-the-air commercial television.

Kor

Also, when they edit old shows for syndication, they often restructure the commercial breaks to fall somewhere other than where originally intended. Done poorly, this sometimes has breaks falling in the middle of a scene. (Cozi edits of Adam-12, I’m talking about you!)