Bloop
Sr Member
Just watched the last 2 episodes (5 and 6)...sigh. Not sure what to say. I should know to expect to be disappointed with each new episode by now. I'm trying not to overanalyze it, but that's not the problem. The show has fundamental problems, not just nitpicks.
I'm no Trek expert by any means, but obviously neither are the writers of Picard. I wasn't a fan of adding the existence of a Borg queen in ST: First Contact (it broke with what we knew of the Borg presented in the TV series), but it sort of worked. I didn't like how emotional she was in that movie, going against to cold, emotionless, mechanical nature of the Borg, and now ST: Picard decided to go even further with it. Picard's queen seems very American too...I suppose she could have been an assimilated human, but it feels out of character.
Also, the Picard crew just leaves Jurati to fend for herself all the time, with the queen, at the party - she takes off and no one seems concerned. They all go to the clinic with Picard instead of sending someone to go find her and make sure she's okay. Dumb writing.
Speaking of dumb writing, Jurati singing has already been brought up. So the Borg queen planned for her to sing at the gala (how did she make this happen exactly?) so Jurati would release enough endorphins for the queen to take over...huh?
Glossing over the fact that human history will change from the uplifting Federation to the xenophobic, authoritarian regime of the Confederation because one astronaut (conveniently related to Jean-Luc) backs out of a mission, we get Picard, who already stated how crippling depression can be, talking her back into going on a presumably long space mission despite her mental disorder. So he basically talked her out of her clinical depression in a couple minutes. I guess the rigorous training and mental fitness required for astronauts doesn't really matter. I can't imagine anyone diagnosed with clinical depression would be deemed fit for a lengthy space flight. And it's not like Q did this, she obviously had these problems for years.
And has anyone else noticed the episodes have been getting shorter? The first of the season was 55 minutes, now we're down to 39 in episode 6. I guess I should be thankful, it's almost like they know they don't have enough material to sustain interest so they're cutting the episodes shorter to try to hide it.
I'm no Trek expert by any means, but obviously neither are the writers of Picard. I wasn't a fan of adding the existence of a Borg queen in ST: First Contact (it broke with what we knew of the Borg presented in the TV series), but it sort of worked. I didn't like how emotional she was in that movie, going against to cold, emotionless, mechanical nature of the Borg, and now ST: Picard decided to go even further with it. Picard's queen seems very American too...I suppose she could have been an assimilated human, but it feels out of character.
Also, the Picard crew just leaves Jurati to fend for herself all the time, with the queen, at the party - she takes off and no one seems concerned. They all go to the clinic with Picard instead of sending someone to go find her and make sure she's okay. Dumb writing.
Speaking of dumb writing, Jurati singing has already been brought up. So the Borg queen planned for her to sing at the gala (how did she make this happen exactly?) so Jurati would release enough endorphins for the queen to take over...huh?
Glossing over the fact that human history will change from the uplifting Federation to the xenophobic, authoritarian regime of the Confederation because one astronaut (conveniently related to Jean-Luc) backs out of a mission, we get Picard, who already stated how crippling depression can be, talking her back into going on a presumably long space mission despite her mental disorder. So he basically talked her out of her clinical depression in a couple minutes. I guess the rigorous training and mental fitness required for astronauts doesn't really matter. I can't imagine anyone diagnosed with clinical depression would be deemed fit for a lengthy space flight. And it's not like Q did this, she obviously had these problems for years.
And has anyone else noticed the episodes have been getting shorter? The first of the season was 55 minutes, now we're down to 39 in episode 6. I guess I should be thankful, it's almost like they know they don't have enough material to sustain interest so they're cutting the episodes shorter to try to hide it.
