Subject: OK, So...meh???
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Posted on: 2020-01-23 10:58:31 UTC

I mean, yay, Picard's back?

But nay, not another frakking Mary Sue (what is it with Kurtzman-era Star Trek and Mary Sue characters? I mean, first we have Mikey Burnham, now we have Dahj or whatever she's called). Then there's the fact that this show feels more like a soap opera than a science-fiction show. But, so did STD for that matter.

Oh, and a bunch of minor things. I'm pretty sure the Daystrom Institute is in San Francisco, not Okinawa. I'm also pretty sure that all the scenes in the 25th century from previous works in the franchise didn't have so many goddamm holograms. But hey, they're OK with getting rid of the best sci-fi OS in all sci-fi history (i.e. LCARS), so I guess that all balances out. Not.

Also, the pacing is gorram terrible. Like, who the heck wrote this? The editing is especially bad in one particular scene at the start, with a cut that is blatantly bad.

Then there's the awful music. I mean, I know Jerry Goldsmith is dead and all (having been deceased since 2004), but Jeff Russo's music is just awful. Couldn't they get someone who can actually compose something that isn't a piece of HoH? The STD theme was an abomination of a hybrid between the 2009 reboot theme and the TOS theme, and the Picard theme is just bizarrely mismatched to the sort of franchise Star Trek is. His theme for For All Mankind on Apple TV+ wasn't much better, and IDK why my boi Ronald D. Moore didn't go with Bear McCready. But I digress.

At least the dog's cute. There's that right there. At least Jon Luc behaves vaguely like Jon Luc, although he seems kinda off to me...maybe it's the Kurtzman influence...

I mean, it wasn't as shockingly bad as STD was, but it's not brilliant either. It's...meh...that's all I can really say about it. There's glaring flaws with the show, but they're not as bad as That Show was upon release. I mean, we'll see how this goes really.

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