by RetroRomper » Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:46 pm
Are you girls off your lithium or are you too busy enjoying your monthly bloody PMS to appreciate an actually good version of Star Trek? I'm hearing about how it isn't actually "Star Trek" because they imbue the characters with actual personality, conflicts, humanity, and give all of them room to breath in the story so that Patrick Stewart and the rest can actually show off their acting chops. Instead it's "Discovery Season 2 was dope!" even though it was the television equivalent of smacking a focus group with a bag of rocks before they rate a show.
What do we get from Star Trek: Picard? Clear indications that Patrick Stewart has grown as an actor, clearly bringing his Shakespearean theater experience to play. Even Jeri Ryan (who is a little cheesy) ends up having a drive that pits her against the moral straight jacket that the Federation is still embodying. Sure, it has a bunch of Deus Ex Machina moments and the plot is thin in places, but God is it actually mature writing about real human beings instead of the caricatures of humanity that Star Trek has always managed to shove into our faces.
If you want cheesy gags, grotesque acting that has more in common with a cardboard cut out of Ronald Reagon, and a world that has about the same depth, go watch one of the Star Trek fan films. But I'm enjoying Picard because it's being actually emotive, there is hate that is still embodied with love and understanding that the Galaxy is a great place and people have to fight for it. Alongside a plot that has more in common with a detective novel than fan fiction, what is there to actually complain about?
Ya'll are pussies.
Are you girls off your lithium or are you too busy enjoying your monthly bloody PMS to appreciate an actually good version of Star Trek? I'm hearing about how it isn't actually "Star Trek" because they imbue the characters with actual personality, conflicts, humanity, and give all of them room to breath in the story so that Patrick Stewart and the rest can actually show off their acting chops. Instead it's "Discovery Season 2 was dope!" even though it was the television equivalent of smacking a focus group with a bag of rocks before they rate a show.
What do we get from Star Trek: Picard? Clear indications that Patrick Stewart has grown as an actor, clearly bringing his Shakespearean theater experience to play. Even Jeri Ryan (who is a little cheesy) ends up having a drive that pits her against the moral straight jacket that the Federation is still embodying. Sure, it has a bunch of Deus Ex Machina moments and the plot is thin in places, but God is it actually mature writing about real human beings instead of the caricatures of humanity that Star Trek has always managed to shove into our faces.
If you want cheesy gags, grotesque acting that has more in common with a cardboard cut out of Ronald Reagon, and a world that has about the same depth, go watch one of the Star Trek fan films. But I'm enjoying Picard because it's being actually emotive, there is hate that is still embodied with love and understanding that the Galaxy is a great place and people have to fight for it. Alongside a plot that has more in common with a detective novel than fan fiction, what is there to actually complain about?
Ya'll are pussies.