Star Trek: Picard - Amazon Prime [ POSSIBLE SPOILERS ]

AMKC · 30-01-2020 08:31PM

marcbrophy wrote: »

I meant on Prime, sorry!

Thanks Evade!

Thats ok.

AMKC · 30-01-2020 08:37PM

Just watched TNG episode ''A Measure of a Man'' and its still brilliant. Some parts I remembered other parts that so. Guinen was very pivotel in that too. If she was not there it could have gone very different.

I am glad she is going to be in Season two.

EltonJohn69 · 31-01-2020 01:23AM

Episode 2: Not a perfect episode.... but.... pretty pretty.... pretty good
The show really got a nice budget... it looks great...could have been released as a movie

is_that_so · 31-01-2020 10:05AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Is that Thursday nights?

Late I'd say, definitely Friday.

31-01-2020 10:43AM

OK this show is being made to binge. I know that CBS are doing a weekly but it is being made for the future binge watcher.
Episode ends are coming out of nowhere and really look like they are meant to immediately flow into the next episode.

Also, why is this a 44min/episode show? It's on streaming services yet still being made for TV format.

marcbrophy · 31-01-2020 11:21AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Also, why is this a 44min/episode show? It's on streaming services yet still being made for TV format.

Future syndication to TV networks, I'd imagine!

EltonJohn69 · 31-01-2020 11:23AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

OK this show is being made to binge. I know that CBS are doing a weekly but it is being made for the future binge watcher.
Episode ends are coming out of nowhere and really look like they are meant to immediately flow into the next episode.

Also, why is this a 44min/episode show? It's on streaming services yet still being made for TV format.

Thought episode 2 ended very suddenly... out of nowhere it was... “next week on Picard”

01-02-2020 12:36AM

Ok....I'm very into It now. Wasn't sure about it last week but I really like it now!

TheValeyard · 01-02-2020 09:11AM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Thought episode 2 ended very suddenly... out of nowhere it was... “next week on Picard”

Give me more Picard!!!!!!!!

AMKC · 01-02-2020 01:12PM

Anyone here love to see a Stargazer series? I know I would not mind seeing it.

01-02-2020 01:44PM

Moar Prequels???

The "true holders" of Trek lore would go into internet meltdown

Evade · 01-02-2020 02:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Moar Prequels???

The "true holders" of Trek lore would go into internet meltdown

Every prequel, Star Trek or not, has problems of either being constrained by previously established events or just ignoring them. Doubly so if using characters whose fates are already known. It might work in small doses around a specific event but not as a whole series.

mrcheez · 01-02-2020 02:08PM

Anyone else find Orla Brady's acting a little distracting for a Romulan character?

I know they normally have American/British accents but something a bit jarring about the "fiery oirish temper" on a Romulan.

Also the goddamn soft T's. Makes me cringe every time.

GreeBo · 01-02-2020 03:53PM

mrcheez wrote: »

Anyone else find Orla Brady's acting a little distracting for a Romulan character?

I know they normally have American/British accents but something a bit jarring about the "fiery oirish temper" on a Romulan.

Also the goddamn soft T's. Makes me cringe every time.

She was very begorrah in episode 2 alright.

TheValeyard · 01-02-2020 04:04PM

mrcheez wrote: »

Anyone else find Orla Brady's acting a little distracting for a Romulan character?

I know they normally have American/British accents but something a bit jarring about the "fiery oirish temper" on a Romulan.

Also the goddamn soft T's. Makes me cringe every time.

Nah, I love it.

01-02-2020 04:33PM

OK that is her natural accent, people never seem to complain about American and British accents on alien species.
They have said that the character learned English in Ireland and lived there, well then she will have an Irish accent and mannerisms.

FFS the Americans and ROW will not have a clue what an Irish accent is like anyway. I mean even O'Brien was a muted one.

mrcheez · 01-02-2020 05:43PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

They have said that the character learned English in Ireland and lived there, well then she will have an Irish accent and mannerisms.

If it's deliberate then that's different I guess. I assumed they would all learn English in the same Romulan school

https://www.joe.ie/amp/movies-tv/star-trek-picard-ireland-691289

Interesting take on it

Evade · 01-02-2020 05:56PM

Surely she should have a Romulan accent if not using a universal translator? They should have picked an accent and had all Romulans actually speaking English speak with that accent. And if you're learning a language you really should learn a neutral version of it first. Learn the rules, then learn when to ignore them.

Stark · 01-02-2020 05:58PM

What's the "neutral version" of English?

bazza1 · 01-02-2020 06:05PM

mrcheez wrote: »

Anyone else find Orla Brady's acting a little distracting for a Romulan character?

I know they normally have American/British accents but something a bit jarring about the "fiery oirish temper" on a Romulan.

Also the goddamn soft T's. Makes me cringe every time.

Did she say "cheeky feckers" in the episode?

AMKC · 01-02-2020 06:05PM

mrcheez wrote: »

Anyone else find Orla Brady's acting a little distracting for a Romulan character?

I know they normally have American/British accents but something a bit jarring about the "fiery oirish temper" on a Romulan.

Also the goddamn soft T's. Makes me cringe every time.

I thought when she was acting with Picard at the chatee she acted better than when they were at the apartment as she seemed to to but as much effort into her acting there.

Evade · 01-02-2020 06:26PM

Stark wrote: »

What's the "neutral version" of English?

I wrote "a" not "the." English has a few neutral versions but the way newsreaders speak is generally pretty neutral.

odyssey06 · 01-02-2020 06:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

OK that is her natural accent, people never seem to complain about American and British accents on alien species.

They would if they were strongly regional though, if they used Boston mannerisms or Cockney. Orla Brady strayed out of neutral a bit in episode 2.

expectationlost · 01-02-2020 10:11PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I

redlettermedia had a nice run about how much Picard hated Data in the series

Sonics2k · 02-02-2020 01:30PM

I do have one concern about the show, and it's not spoiler-y so it'll be fine here.

If there's one thing that put me off about Discovery (aside from the often god awful writing), was the singular focus on one great big story line. For me it took away from the story a bit. Star Trek was always more about the exploration, the new races and cultures and Riker/Kirk's attempts to bang as many of them as possible.

Discovery went total tunnel vision on the one plot. Any twist or deviation from the main plot turned out to be directly related to the plot. In a way for me, it was the shows biggest flaw.

I'm worried that Picard is going to go the same way, because quite often when a show does this they have a way of climbing right up their own asses.

GreeBo · 02-02-2020 02:55PM

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I

redlettermedia had a nice run about how much Picard hated Data in the series

No matter how bad the new series is, nothing could be worse than watching those two smugtards and their circle jerk again.

02-02-2020 03:14PM

GreeBo wrote: »

No matter how bad the new series is, nothing could be worse than watching those two smugtards and their circle jerk again.

I tried to give it a fair shake, just to see dissenting view, but lasted 2 minutes. God, they're obnoxious

mrcheez · 02-02-2020 03:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I tried to give it a fair shake, Just to see dissenting view but lasted 2 minutes.

That's what she said

pixelburp · 02-02-2020 03:50PM

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I

redlettermedia had a nice run about how much Picard hated Data in the series

Said it in the episode thread, but I don't agree with them; IMO we're meeting a wistful, melancholic version of Picard, one more filled with regret of a lost friend than a contradiction of previous behaviour. Both can be true, and I see Jean Luc compensating with retrospective fondness for someone taken too soon.

His literal last words in the last episode of TNg was a regret he hadn't reached out to his senior crew sooner than he did. The series ended on that very regretful realisation.

Stark · 02-02-2020 04:36PM

Anyone willing to take one for the team and summarise the main points? (no way am I watching 45 mins of that)

Picard and Data seemed to develop more of a friendship in the movies from what I recall.

Picard in general started out with major people issues. Strained relationship with his own family, the Crushers, his younger self, children to name a few. We saw him resolve some of these issues over the course of the series. And like pixelburp said, the series ended with Q showing him the worst case future if he continued down road of not investing in his relationships with people and we see him resolve to make amends.

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Star Trek: Picard - Amazon Prime [ POSSIBLE SPOILERS ]