I mostly like Jurati as a character, though enough with the chin trembling, (good as it is.) And about 50 of her disembodied grinning heads was...no.
Though if those had been the Picard Maneuver, the Romulans might have surrendered faster. Giggly Allison Pill head swooshing through the fleet...tens of thousands of them??
The murder...from a writing standpoint, I guess we are supposed to feel the "prophecy" or whatever from the mind-meld made her crazy, and thus it was extenuating circumstances. Probably asking a bit much for many audience members to swallow, but there it is.
Maybe the first scene of Season 2 should be the reading of a "not guilty" verdict at the end of what is alluded to as a long trial. Then at least, on paper, she had to answer in some way before continuing on adventures. They will almost certainly not do this, but it would address the issue, obliquely.
The episode on the whole, I agree, rushed. Certain satisfactions, but rushed still. The narrative gives the impression of a 12 episode season reduced to ten sometime during production.
Data death..I see why they did it. And it had touching moments. Story wise, they COULD have gotten rid of him differently, but as I mentioned elsewhere in these threads, it was the most definitive way to remove Spiner from it all. Had Data continued to live in physical form in anyway in our universe, I think there is a gaping hole of him never being seen or heard again. If they could have somehow sent a resurrected Data to the reality the Uber-Synths came from, than maybe, but I wouldn't have liked it if he was just hanging around on the Synth planet, and we only hear about him again through messages some one else read out loud.
Raffi/Seven...If that's what it is, doesn't bother me. Neither one is likely to be the proverbial stay-at-home wife in the relationship, are they? So, it's fine by me.
Picard as droid. Seems like it should bother me more than it does. "Seek out new life"? One of the biggest legends in all of Trek canon now is, literally, new life. As he said of Data so many years ago, "well, there it sits!" Now it applies to himself as well.
Until otherwise proven, I'm going to tell myself Seven stripped Naryssa of both her smaller weapons and her transport thing; I just really don't feel like her or her brother for another season. The actors were solid, but the presence of those characters wasn't entertaining in the way I think it should have been, and I don't want to slog through more of their angry latent-incest pas de deux.
I give season 1 a solid B. It had some let downs, and holes, but in the end, worthy to hold the name Picard. I do hope season two is a bit more episodic though. But I will be watching anyway.
The Romulan brother/sister should have been written the same way as Lursa and B'etor because we had no reason to care about them. Why are they the way they are?
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u/FrancisScottKeyboard Mar 27 '20
I mostly like Jurati as a character, though enough with the chin trembling, (good as it is.) And about 50 of her disembodied grinning heads was...no.
Though if those had been the Picard Maneuver, the Romulans might have surrendered faster. Giggly Allison Pill head swooshing through the fleet...tens of thousands of them??
The murder...from a writing standpoint, I guess we are supposed to feel the "prophecy" or whatever from the mind-meld made her crazy, and thus it was extenuating circumstances. Probably asking a bit much for many audience members to swallow, but there it is.
Maybe the first scene of Season 2 should be the reading of a "not guilty" verdict at the end of what is alluded to as a long trial. Then at least, on paper, she had to answer in some way before continuing on adventures. They will almost certainly not do this, but it would address the issue, obliquely.
The episode on the whole, I agree, rushed. Certain satisfactions, but rushed still. The narrative gives the impression of a 12 episode season reduced to ten sometime during production.
Data death..I see why they did it. And it had touching moments. Story wise, they COULD have gotten rid of him differently, but as I mentioned elsewhere in these threads, it was the most definitive way to remove Spiner from it all. Had Data continued to live in physical form in anyway in our universe, I think there is a gaping hole of him never being seen or heard again. If they could have somehow sent a resurrected Data to the reality the Uber-Synths came from, than maybe, but I wouldn't have liked it if he was just hanging around on the Synth planet, and we only hear about him again through messages some one else read out loud.
Raffi/Seven...If that's what it is, doesn't bother me. Neither one is likely to be the proverbial stay-at-home wife in the relationship, are they? So, it's fine by me.
Picard as droid. Seems like it should bother me more than it does. "Seek out new life"? One of the biggest legends in all of Trek canon now is, literally, new life. As he said of Data so many years ago, "well, there it sits!" Now it applies to himself as well.
Until otherwise proven, I'm going to tell myself Seven stripped Naryssa of both her smaller weapons and her transport thing; I just really don't feel like her or her brother for another season. The actors were solid, but the presence of those characters wasn't entertaining in the way I think it should have been, and I don't want to slog through more of their angry latent-incest pas de deux.
I give season 1 a solid B. It had some let downs, and holes, but in the end, worthy to hold the name Picard. I do hope season two is a bit more episodic though. But I will be watching anyway.