My two cents...I watched the 1st episode of Picard, Season 3. These are my thoughts.
The filmmakers use warm and cold filters to mute the colors, which yields a dull visual experience, as opposed to vibrant and exciting. On top of the filters, each and EVERY scene is dim. The ship's exterior is boxy and the interior is, to put mildly, uncomfortable.
The script is basic.
The character that appears to be involved with drugs does nothing for the show. Picard, Riker, Crusher and 7 of 9 are all excellent. Ensign La Forge is one of the more interesting characters, who has a grand total of 15 seconds onscreen. I liked the flute and the Romulan lady at the beginning of the episode, but Picard would just go to Crusher if she needed help. There would be no debate. Why? Because he's Captain Jean Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. That's why. You better get it right. And it must be said, Picard and Riker would have way more gravitas than they are shown here (conspiracy or not) by some random noname Captain.
My impression is that if you don't like Star Trek, your favorite music genre is 1990's grunge, and your drugs of choice happen to be downers, you may love Picard. Picard is more like an underdeveloped version of Blade Runner masquerading as Star Trek. Watching this episode of Picard felt like listening to Alice In Chains on loop for 60 minutes. I would rather watch Spock's Brain all day for a week then to re-watch Picard Episode 1, Season 3.
I'm looking forward to the second episode.
Why don't they just make season 4 the last season?
Season 5 is already filmed.
The writing is not horrible. I certainly wouldn't say that this season is anywhere near better than the whole of TNG, but I have seen single episodes of TNG that have worse writing and much lower overall production value than season 3 so far. You cannot say the same?
You evaded my question. I asked you if TNG's writing at times sucked worse than Picard season 3 thus far (sometimes much worse). It isn't so terrible that I am going to ditch it at this point.
Putting replies in a spoiler:-absolutely no one talks like anyone did prior to the JJ Abrams movies. Now everyone just talks like people do in the present like “Cool!” and “I think I feel my camomile tea coming back up”
-more BadRobot “mystery box” bullshit
-Riker and Picard have been friends for 35 years and yet they’re devolving into petty bickering in front of the crew?
-the Captain that hated their guts just throws them the keys to the ship the second he’s injured instead of going down the ship’s ordinary chain of command?
-Beverly says it would be too dangerous for Picard’s child to ever know him, yet takes him on all these dangerous outings to live a life as galactic “Doctors without Borders” bullshit?
-Riker’s a coward now because his son died of cancer or whatever?
-Worf’s taken Raffi as his protege because… reasons?
-Riker accuses Picard of killing them all because the Shrike effectively used magic to attack them with their own torpedoes?
-dumb, meaningless member-berries “Worf’s doing tai chi to the opera music Picard was listening to at the beginning of First Contact!”
I’m in this thing to the bitter end, but this is not as some people described it season 8 of TNG. Watching Riker and Crusher fight with Picard all I can think is that I don’t recognize these characters at all.
No. The android of Picard has only been friends with Riker for a couple seasons.
It's very rigid. The story and dialogue for the most part. This season of Picard has maybe graduated to bad TNG movie status. The dialogue - and especially the way people talk - constantly takes me out of it. As I said before, things are the way they are in Star Trek (or were) to separate it from other sci-fi, so it feels different. These show runners and writers don't understand that.I never said the production value was lower, because nuTrek clearly has superior production value to anything from TOS to Enterprise.
But I won’t concede that the writing doesn’t suck, because it does:
-absolutely no one talks like anyone did prior to the JJ Abrams movies. Now everyone just talks like people do in the present like “Cool!” and “I think I feel my camomile tea coming back up”
-more BadRobot “mystery box” bullshit
-Riker and Picard have been friends for 35 years and yet they’re devolving into petty bickering in front of the crew?
-the Captain that hated their guts just throws them the keys to the ship the second he’s injured instead of going down the ship’s ordinary chain of command?
-Beverly says it would be too dangerous for Picard’s child to ever know him, yet takes him on all these dangerous outings to live a life as galactic “Doctors without Borders” bullshit?
-Riker’s a coward now because his son died of cancer or whatever?
-Worf’s taken Raffi as his protege because… reasons?
-Riker accuses Picard of killing them all because the Shrike effectively used magic to attack them with their own torpedoes?
-dumb, meaningless member-berries “Worf’s doing tai chi to the opera music Picard was listening to at the beginning of First Contact!”
I’m in this thing to the bitter end, but this is not as some people described it season 8 of TNG. Watching Riker and Crusher fight with Picard all I can think is that I don’t recognize these characters at all.
I never said the production value was lower, because nuTrek clearly has superior production value to anything from TOS to Enterprise.
But I won’t concede that the writing doesn’t suck, because it does:
-absolutely no one talks like anyone did prior to the JJ Abrams movies. Now everyone just talks like people do in the present like “Cool!” and “I think I feel my camomile tea coming back up”
-more BadRobot “mystery box” bullshit
-Riker and Picard have been friends for 35 years and yet they’re devolving into petty bickering in front of the crew?
-the Captain that hated their guts just throws them the keys to the ship the second he’s injured instead of going down the ship’s ordinary chain of command?
-Beverly says it would be too dangerous for Picard’s child to ever know him, yet takes him on all these dangerous outings to live a life as galactic “Doctors without Borders” bullshit?
-Riker’s a coward now because his son died of cancer or whatever?
-Worf’s taken Raffi as his protege because… reasons?
-Riker accuses Picard of killing them all because the Shrike effectively used magic to attack them with their own torpedoes?
-dumb, meaningless member-berries “Worf’s doing tai chi to the opera music Picard was listening to at the beginning of First Contact!”
I’m in this thing to the bitter end, but this is not as some people described it season 8 of TNG. Watching Riker and Crusher fight with Picard all I can think is that I don’t recognize these characters at all.
^ This is how I felt about Star Trek First Contact and people love that film for some reason.
