Picard - Is An Awesome Series

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Late to the party?  Sure.  We got a really good deal on the complete series of Picard Blu-Ray!

The series is really really good.  Ratings were not favorable for the 1st 2 seasons.  Honestly... I really liked them.  Outside a couple oddities, I don't see what the fuss was.  The 3rd season is so far really awesome as well.

We had an older Topic a few years back:
Star Trek Picard - is it good?
There were a couple good comments at the time.

How many have seen this?  Have you gone back and re-watched?

Thoughts? Comments?  Post it up!!

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I loved it for what it was. There were flaws but it told an entertaining story. Die-hards will / did hate it. Without spoiling anything, there's a back story that was rushed and had liberties taken. Even the showrunner addressed it, basically admitting it was shoehorned in.

I didn't appreciate the earlier series until later in life and have not been through all of it yet. They were more soap than action, so I wrote them off and have only recently started watching the legacy stuff. The Next Generation movies were great and cut the fluffy stuff to seemingly attract a wider movie-going audience and was more my thing. I think that's why I liked Picard. It took a little more of the action route and had some ties to the Star Trek materials I most enjoyed.

I get the hate, when Marvel or DC takes too much liberty with some of the comic story lines I read as a kid, I took it as a put-off. Sometimes big changes work, other times they don't. People are always going to find issue when others take liberties with source material. I'm less resistant to it than some, I just ask for quality, which in general does seem to be fading.

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I am also going back through some of the older series.  It's pretty cool

I get the hate, when Marvel or DC takes too much liberty with some of the comic story lines I read as a kid, I took it as a put-off. Sometimes big changes work, other times they don't. People are always going to find issue when others take liberties with source material. I'm less resistant to it than some, I just ask for quality, which in general does seem to be fading.

Especially in this day and age... it really seems like everyone complains about everything.  I get it, there are opinions about... and strong opinions at that.

Outside the liberties taken... and coming from not 100% remembering every main or back story... It was very enjoyable to watch. Again, there were certain points that were rough and some over active at certain spots, but the series was very enjoyable to watch.  Maybe if I knew everything... and was a uber Trekkie or something... it might matter much more lol

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bumping this up... Who else checked this out?  I'm a bit surprised @retro junkie didn't jump into this one.

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I dogmatically think that what makes a series work is a combination of people which includes the director, writers, and all of the little people that are present during the whole work. The Actors are there as well as the writers finding their way through evolving the characters and bringing them to a maturity at the close of the series. Character development? Yeah, something like that. Even the interaction of those characters. Story development too. All of this is just weaved together gradually through the whole series. There is a certain magic present there which just "makes" the series as a whole, which is part of the adventure and makes it a pleasurable and enjoyable ride.

Going back and digging up the aged Actors trying to recreate that magic often ends up like a cardboard stand-up of the original character. They have lost something precious. They end up being shadows and out of character at times.

I have purposely avoided the Picard series for that very reason. I want to watch the original Star Trek:TNG and remember those characters in that light, as they were. I don't want to watch something that seems regurgitated. They tried to bring back the X Files and it is a prime example of what I am talking about. The cinematography of the original X Files was just not there, because those who were involved in the original was missing. Even the Actors had lost something of the characters they had played. And it is what I was saying at the beginning of this post, the team is missing.

I don't consider Star Trek Discovery as being Star Trek. There are a lot of elements about it that gives me that vibe and feel. It is good science fiction, but not Star Trek. Whereas Star Trek Strange News Worlds, I consider Star Trek.

Am I a picky Treker fan? Yeah I guess so. That is just where I stood on this stab at raising Picard from the dead.