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nine-gear crow posted:This is really starting to feel like three hours of story stretched out across 10 episodes of TV. I’m sorry. Starting???
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maybe there'll be eventually be compaction fan-edits like for The Hobbit trilogy
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Mar 31, 2022 13:49
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There will be edits condensing down the nonsense into a digestible 90 minutes. It may be okay then. However as it is, we have hack producers not understanding that because of their insistence of being serialized they can’t move on to next episode ever.
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Mar 31, 2022 13:53
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Haven't seen the latest episode yet, but I just thought about the scene where Guinan implies that Picard can afford to be optimistic about the future because of his white privilege, while a white homeless man stands 10 feet away from her. Maybe it's for the best that almost nothing happens in this show.
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Mar 31, 2022 14:06
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Agnes can't stop won't stop killing  I am all here for the borg queen to mindfuck Agnes for the rest of the season. nine-gear crow posted:I’m still digging the season, but I REALLY feel like I’d be enjoying it more if I t was released all at once. This is really starting to feel like three hours of story stretched out across 10 episodes of TV. 
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Mar 31, 2022 14:41
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https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1509485657357369347?s=20&t=LmxCqupoWawhq0X31SuZqg Did they turn Dr M'Benga into Dr Phlox?
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Mar 31, 2022 14:56
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nine-gear crow posted:The NX-01 engineering set seemed like it was something just outside the reach of the plausible, like a lot of the Earth Starfleet visual language did, at least at the start of the show. I love how the Enterprise warp core was laid horizontal like the implied TOS warp core and the TMP-era one and looked like a giant ship boiler that ran on space magic bullshit instead of steam and that like half of Connor Trineer's scenes on the show were him just jungle gym'ing his way over, under or around it and trying not to crash into the camera. I'd say I'd want to see a modern Trek take on the ENT sets, but I'm kind of terrified they'd gently caress them up. There was a lot of thought in that that they could do more if a modern trek did a take on them. From Drex: quote:On the “blue sky” list – If we had the money, we would have replaced the back wall with greenscreen, and everyshot would have been a CG set extension. The core would be twice as long, and feeding a TOS inspired cathedral manifold.   Honestly there were a lot of really cool details in the NX-01 that the designers created which writers could've used but never did. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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Mar 31, 2022 15:25
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I am no Trek expert and I have never seen Enterprise and have no idea how the timeline works but they're setting up Khan right? Like that's what this has to be? The Eugenics Wars clearly never happened in this version of the Trek timeline and there's always been a vague connection between the Soong family and those events. The original is peak Trek, very literally the highest point of the franchise, and something they've been trying to revisit but hosed up terribly in their last attempt, so why not take another swing at it? Every other aspect of this season of Picard is just revisiting better Trek, so why the gently caress not that? Even this episode is clearly wanting to be Trials and Tribble-ations but because it's Picard they're doing it very, very poorly.
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Mar 31, 2022 15:29
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Traditionally Khan is a Noonien Singh, not a Noonien Soong. He’s not supposed to be related to the Data making guy, they just have similar names for Roddenberry reasons. But tbh who cares nowadays, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they retroactively merged them. But I would be kind of surprised if they end this show with our heroes causing eugenics wars to fix the timeline, that would be wild.
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Mar 31, 2022 15:42
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Arik Soong was big on the Eugenics augments, though.
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Mar 31, 2022 15:48
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Atlas Hugged posted:The original is peak Trek, very literally the highest point of the franchise, eh wot? the two meme men people joke about and goof on for decades in peak trek? the guy with his tits out that makes kirk so horny he screams to the heavens in lust, this is peak trek?
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Mar 31, 2022 16:22
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The general idea of using a fold phone as the screen on a tricorder is fine but I do wish Picard had built a better prop around it so it looked less like just a smartphone in a case.
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Mar 31, 2022 16:23
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I wonder if there's a bonus here. It does resemble a 3D barcode like  But that particular implementation is only a proposal, there's no scanners or anything. The phone number is, apparently - if you ring you get a message from Q.
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Mar 31, 2022 16:56
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Thom12255 posted:It's Harvey. As fun as it'll probably be - the actress for the Queen is knocking it out of the park - I think I'm well and truly over such characters. But it certainly does lead into the idea that Future Cube Queen is Jurati
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Mar 31, 2022 17:22
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if there's a bonus here. Look I've seen Raised By Wolves and you do NOT want to gently caress with whatever's on those little silver cards.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:40
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Ben Browder for imaginary Borg Queen. I liked the episode, though the whole Anges/BQ buddy angle is...grating at points?
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Mar 31, 2022 17:57
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Last week Raffi and Seven beam out of a car surrounded by cops who can plainly see them disappear. This week Seven says that beaming Rios out of a bus would be a bad idea.. If they want to have a 10 hour movie can they at least pay attention to their own story?
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Mar 31, 2022 18:02
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That's what, three references to Kirk now?
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Mar 31, 2022 18:05
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Atlas Hugged posted:I am no Trek expert and I have never seen Enterprise and have no idea how the timeline works but I do think they are setting up the roots of Khan, but I think it's also the writers wanting to push the timeline of the Eugenics Wars back a little bit since "they started in 1999!" has been a joke for 23 years
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Mar 31, 2022 18:14
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MikeJF posted:The phone number is, apparently - if you ring you get a message from Q. 1-323-634-5667 "Hello! You have reached the Q continuum. We are unable to get to the phone right now, because we are busy living in a plane of existence your feeble mortal mind cannot possibly comprehend. Furthermore, it's pointless to leave a message, because we, of course, already knew that you would call, and we simply do not care. Have a nice day!" It's actually pretty funny, John DeLancie hams it up spectacularly, it's my phone away message now. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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Mar 31, 2022 18:17
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Typical Pubbie posted:Haven't seen the latest episode yet, but I just thought about the scene where Guinan implies that Picard can afford to be optimistic about the future because of his white privilege, while a white homeless man stands 10 feet away from her. Maybe it's for the best that almost nothing happens in this show. I got what they were going for in that bit but being dismissive of a guy saying "just be patient a little longer, it finally gets better" to a guy literally from the future who knows for a fact that it does get better fell right on its face.
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Mar 31, 2022 19:00
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I watched the new episode of Picard and as it turns out, the show is dumb and bad.
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Croatoan posted:I watched the new episode of Picard and as it turns out, the show is dumb and bad. See you next week!
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Mar 31, 2022 19:34
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We're about halfway through this season and I feel like there's a million different threads going on right now. I'm curious how many of them will spill over to season 3 since they were filmed together. If Singh is a Soong I'm going to be real mad. That cop is totally a sleeper Borg now, isn't he? I'm actually surprised that the Supervisors don't know about Q. I wonder if the aliens that use them do, and if so how much are they freaking out right now back on their hidden world.
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Mar 31, 2022 19:38
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Super Deuce posted:Last week Raffi and Seven beam out of a car surrounded by cops who can plainly see them disappear. This week Seven says that beaming Rios out of a bus would be a bad idea.. If they want to have a 10 hour movie can they at least pay attention to their own story? The cops didn't see them disappear last week. When they were coming around us the viewers could just see the very last of the beam effect disappearing but from the cops pov they came around to the front of the vehicle guns drawn and it was just empty
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Mar 31, 2022 19:54
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Wouldn't be the first high-speed autopilot chase by 2024
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The cops didn't see them disappear last week. When they were coming around us the viewers could just see the very last of the beam effect disappearing but from the cops pov they came around to the front of the vehicle guns drawn and it was just empty 
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Mar 31, 2022 20:18
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You know, this could be an interesting take on the Borg, but I'm not sure I have confidence that they're going to stick the landing.
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Mar 31, 2022 20:31
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The reason Seven and Raffi got away with beaming out is because who's gonna believe a story when the only witnesses are cops?
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Charity Porno posted:I do think they are setting up the roots of Khan, but I think it's also the writers wanting to push the timeline of the Eugenics Wars back a little bit since "they started in 1999!" has been a joke for 23 years The impression I got from Soong's hearing was that the Eugenics Wars already happened and that's why his funding was getting pulled via whatever treaty or accord they mentioned. But that could be totally off, since as Picard said later, records from this century are "chaos", so a lot of the details between major landmark events are fuzzy. That's also the only way WW3 supposedly lasting decades (according to Memory Alpha, anyway) makes any sense to me: post-war United Earth and Federation historians trying to piece together lovely records from 20-30 years of vaguely related conflicts and rolling them all together. It's hard to imagine a world war fought by conventional means lasting that long before someone gets jumpy enough to launch the nukes, but maybe I've just had my brain poisoned by Fallout games and clancychat
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:The reason Seven and Raffi got away with beaming out is because who's gonna believe a story when the only witnesses are cops? Raffi should have left a gram of fentanyl in the car, sending every cop in a 500 meter radius into Grandmal seizures
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Aces High posted:You know, this could be an interesting take on the Borg, but I'm not sure I have confidence that they're going to stick the landing. It's a bad take on the Borg because it undermines their whole premise and what made them menacing in the first place. Picard is obviously not the first show to do that but even with the Borg Queen you at least always had the chance to argue that she was just ACTING like a "human"/individual being in order to accomplish whatever the collective wanted. The whole Agnes/Borg Queen plot is now even driving further from that away. The Borg Queen is now genuinely acting like an individual that WANTS a personal(!) connection with Agnes and actually cares about her as an individual. Also notice that the police officer was only there to serve as a body for the Borg Queen and not to start a new collective because the writers clearly want to individualize the Borg Queen further instead of focussing on the actual collective while they now pretend the collective is some sort of "mind melding". I do like the actress and the overall performance of the Borg queen but I don't like where they are going with this and it's just further proof that the writers don't know what to do with the Borg because it is obviously a challenge due to the fact that they can't be written like your average human-like species. It's also obvious where they are going with all of this: The Agnes/Borg Queen combo is going to lead to the "benign" Borg and in principle I wouldn't even mind such a plotline (it's been obvious since some time that its the only direction the Borg have left to go) but I don't like how we seem to get there.
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LinkesAuge posted:It's a bad take on the Borg because it undermines their whole premise and what made them menacing in the first place. I think it's actually a Queen selection process. I don't think they just turn any rando into a Queen.
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I cant believe we are just 2 years away from drone force field technology
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It looked like it was some kind of film draped between them? Like a combination uv and HEPA filter. When it flew away it folded like a net
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Mar 31, 2022 22:39
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Motherfuck. why does every A story need to be a two parter?!
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Mar 31, 2022 23:07
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They're shooting two episodes per director. This and next week's are Drake's. They probably broke the stories like that too.
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xerxus posted:They're shooting two episodes per director. This and next week's are Drake's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard_(season_2) looks like it's just the directors, except for the first two episodes
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I hope they all crash the party as ridiculous characters again
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two takes https://twitter.com/wersching/status/1509590722164375552
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