It seems the only dropped their usual cynicism to talk with affection about something because they want to use that affection to tear something to shreds with bag loads of cynicism.
Well I’m definitely out. No season 3 for me. After episode 2 things took a nose dive each week and I found myself saying each episode “well at least next week’s episode can’t be this bad”. And it was.
The writing is gutter terrible. Stewart isn’t acting, he’s like Sean Connery at this stage.
It's not that its just "not that good" in an age of good to great TV. It's just plain bad. There are many bad things about it but the ones that annoy me the most:
The show is trash. But like someone said earlier I can just erase it from my mind. As far as I'm concerned it's just some bad fanfiction. Though they are doing their best to ruin the Borg for me.
In fairness though the ending of DS9 built up enough mental scars to allow them endure most bad episodes since then.
DS9 has one of the best endings of any Star Trek far better than what we got for Voyager and Enterprise and just as good as "All Good Things" for TNG.
Fire wraiths and religion didn't do it for me.
Like wouldn't it be cool if the new Borg soldiers had green laser sights on their guns without any reason for those sights to be green
To be fair to the series those sights are either red or green so it's not much of a stretch.
If episode 10 was episode 5 or 6. The season would have worked very well.
The bridge of whatever ship they're on in season three.
The wheeled chairs in the background seem out of place for the bridge (unless that's the observation lounge) and it's very shiny. Taken from here https://trekmovie.com/2022/05/08/star-trek-picard-showrunner-drops-clues-about-season-3-featured-ship-and-more/
I don't like it, it's far too much like a Vegas casino foyer.
That can't be real? It looks horrendous - why would you have so many steps on a spaceship????
A video clip of the set
https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1522948287904419840
Someone's gonna break their neck, even the ramps to the side are pretty steep
With the amount of times people get thrown about the place, that just looks completely unsafe.
"Game show set" was my first thought when I saw it.
Jesus and of course the comments under the Twitter video are so fawning. Are we watching the same show? Maybe I overestimate people and they are are just satisfied with this drek for "smart TV". Some vaguely poetical gobbledegook from Akiva Goldsman and gosh, so profound.
That set looks horrendous. Totally over-designed, utterly impractical and no deference to the world in which it exists. Maybe it'll look better when it's not overlit and the final lighting is in.
So, ship shakes or rumble rumble, you fall down the steps and break your neck.
I can't see Picard going up and down those steps too often
They will do a musical episode with people tap dancing up and down; calling it now... Only reason I can see for all the gold and lights or someone went "What if we Trumpify a starship with all gold would that not be cool?".
I am a long time fan of Star Trek and watched this season, hoping it would be better than the first.
It wasn't.
Good points - Guinan, Brent Spiner and of course, Q.
Bad points - Rafi suddenly being a maternal figure to Elnor, zero chemistry behind Rafi and 7 of 9's "thelma and louise" action storyline, action sequences in general were very poor, and wtf was the kiss between 7 and Rafi about? it looked terribly awkward before and afterwards and made absolutely zero sense.
Will i watch the third? Probably. But to me it beggars belief that something like Star Trek, with the wealth of material and budget can churn out what is in essence a mediocre drama.
For me it feels like the writers don't know much about star trek other than the very basics and are trying to write a drama show that they wished they got instead of this gig.
I tapped out half way through this season. Its just too bad to keep up. It was Jurati singing that put me over the edge. I lasted longer that Discovery, didnt start S2 with that.
Exactly this.
That is incredibly ugly. Is the captain's chair in... Is that a passageway to the officer's conference room/Captain's Ready-room? It looks like there is a wall around it almost (Just the angle I suppose). That is hideous.
Oh, that's what that is back there! The conference room. On full stupid shining display right behind the captain's chair. I 'member the conference room!
I don't think the captain's char is in the passageway though. It's out in front.
It also doesn't feel very Starfleet; generally bridges are flat layouts with everyone at their station. Having the captain and number 1 raised about the rest feels a little too authoritarian.
So here is your choice
1) death by exploding console
2) death by stairs.
Edit:
3) death by exploding console, sending you flying down stairs.
Or 4) Death by crazy space magic :D
Steps or no steps, but is anyone else getting kind of sick of the overly polished reflective surfaces we've been getting in Starfleet vessels ever since the JJ-Movies and now also in all of these Discovery-era shows? Almost always very polished dark surfaces with lit-up borders. Makes many of the starship interiors we've been seeing a bit of a visual mess. In Star Trek 2009 it was an interesting twist / novelty, but for regular shows it's getting a bit exhausting to watch.
Bring back the beige
At least bring back some matte surfaces. I think it might be a lot easier to show what is going on if the background isn't actively drawing attention away from the actors or the action in the foreground. That, and get photograpy directors who know their stuff & can pull off scenes without resorting to shaky-cam or flinging the camara around in crazy angles. (Picard wasn't too bad in this department tbh)
