Stewart on Picard/Logan
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Can't wait to see if there's a "noir" version of PIC, too, like there was for "Logan." 
It's a funny thing. All of the promotional material has me incredibly excited for this show. I've also felt buoyed by recent comments from a TV/film critic I trust, Allison Shoemaker, who said essentially, "I can't tell you why, but I have some very good reasons to think Picard is going to be great. Trust me, this is going to be really good." I am thrilled about Chabon. But the one thing that has given me pause is...Stewart.
I love Picard, and I absolutely adore the man behind the character. But it's no secret that some of the later, less popular parts of the movies were in part a product of Stewart and Spiner's dictates. That does give me pause. Or it has given. Interviews like these are leading me to think that Stewart is no longer interested in action hero, gets-the-girl Picard and is more interested in exploring aging, loss, regret, and change. Things that Picard wears well (or at least the version of Picard I have a particular fondness for; others may, of course, enjoy those parts of him that I have not). So, I guess this is a long way of saying that I'm starting to have faith that Stewart's choices and my interests might just line up here, and that we're going to get a story that does justice to the character without being beholden to, or precious about, the past. I like what he says about Logan and about moving the world forward. It's interesting to think that he had so much to say about the world. I'm very curious to learn what that means.
I love Picard, and I absolutely adore the man behind the character. But it's no secret that some of the later, less popular parts of the movies were in part a product of Stewart and Spiner's dictates. That does give me pause. Or it has given. Interviews like these are leading me to think that Stewart is no longer interested in action hero, gets-the-girl Picard and is more interested in exploring aging, loss, regret, and change. Things that Picard wears well (or at least the version of Picard I have a particular fondness for; others may, of course, enjoy those parts of him that I have not). So, I guess this is a long way of saying that I'm starting to have faith that Stewart's choices and my interests might just line up here, and that we're going to get a story that does justice to the character without being beholden to, or precious about, the past. I like what he says about Logan and about moving the world forward. It's interesting to think that he had so much to say about the world. I'm very curious to learn what that means.
Can't wait to see if there's a "noir" version of PIC, too, like there was for "Logan."
Seven of Nine is a great addition.
If there's noir, Seven of Nine can go there (Jeri Ryan is THAT damn good).
I've never seen Logan. The only three X-Men movies I've seen are the first two, when I was in college, and X-Men: First Class in 2011. That's it. I'll have to watch Logan so I know what everyone's talking about and so it doesn't all go straight over my head.
Most of my X-Men knowledge comes from the cartoon in the early-'90s and from friends of mine who were obsessed with X-Men when I was growing up, always telling me about what was going on while I kind of just nodded my head. DC was more my thing than Marvel.
Most of my X-Men knowledge comes from the cartoon in the early-'90s and from friends of mine who were obsessed with X-Men when I was growing up, always telling me about what was going on while I kind of just nodded my head. DC was more my thing than Marvel.
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Logan is quite sentimental, but man its plot requires characters to do very stupid things that get people killed unnecessarily. I consider it to be overpraised.
Logan was amazing. I imagine this references the wholesome Starfleet of TNG now being somehow complicit in mass producing a slave race of Soong-type androids and concentration camps inside deactivated Borg Cubes.
I absolutely loved Logan, it was depressing but it was a logical conclusion to what we had seen so far in the X-Men movies, it always felt like the mutants were fighting a losing battle. But I don't want that to be retread with Star Trek, thematically it doesn't really make sense.
I found Logan just ok, not bad but also not good.
I hope that Picard is going to be the oppsite of what Xavier was in Logan
I hope that Picard is going to be the oppsite of what Xavier was in Logan
I've seen Logan once, and thought it was very good. I have the noir disc when I'm ready to see it again.
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