Picard: the series as a whole
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:21 pm
I recently finished watching Picard, and was struck by my feelings about the series as a whole.
My initial impression was, like other CBS All Access attempts at Star Trek, this was going to be an uncomfortable shoe-horning of classic Trek into their vision of the universe. And to a point, that is exactly what it was. So in the same way that I had watched 2 seasons of Discovery, I looked at the show as a sci-fi show and left it at that.
In later episodes, they gave the viewer a calming bath of familiar TNG faces. And while the subject matter was still 'doom and gloom', the balm of a lighter touch and liberal dose of humor, allowed me to take a deep breath and reset my perspective a bit. It somehow felt 'back to normal' and hitting the right sweet spot of entertainment.
Without spoiling the ending, they managed to telegraph basically everything that was going to happen far in advance of the events, with one lovely unexpected moment from a familiar face. And shoe-horned in a possible link to DIscovery, because in the day and age of Marvel-verse, 'we gots to expand the universe to make more $$$'.
As the final credits rolled, I was left with some positive anticipation for a second season, along with a bit of dread that CBSAA will muck it up in the end.
My initial impression was, like other CBS All Access attempts at Star Trek, this was going to be an uncomfortable shoe-horning of classic Trek into their vision of the universe. And to a point, that is exactly what it was. So in the same way that I had watched 2 seasons of Discovery, I looked at the show as a sci-fi show and left it at that.
In later episodes, they gave the viewer a calming bath of familiar TNG faces. And while the subject matter was still 'doom and gloom', the balm of a lighter touch and liberal dose of humor, allowed me to take a deep breath and reset my perspective a bit. It somehow felt 'back to normal' and hitting the right sweet spot of entertainment.
Without spoiling the ending, they managed to telegraph basically everything that was going to happen far in advance of the events, with one lovely unexpected moment from a familiar face. And shoe-horned in a possible link to DIscovery, because in the day and age of Marvel-verse, 'we gots to expand the universe to make more $$$'.
As the final credits rolled, I was left with some positive anticipation for a second season, along with a bit of dread that CBSAA will muck it up in the end.