MovieChat Forums > Star Trek: Picard (2020) Discussion > What a Mishmash

What a Mishmash

posted 5 years ago by johnmiller (4011)
4 replies | jump to latest

So much subterfuge, so little time. That's the best summation I can think to describe "Picard." There are agents, double agents, robot twins, and TONS of backstory that happened between TNG and this that we only get to see in quick flashbacks.

I really do think that Patrick Stewart deserves SO MUCH BETTER than this "Star Trek: Discovery" like Mystery Box stuff with a dozen story lines tripping over each other every episode.

[–] JestersDead (485) 5 years ago

Good summary.

Too much puzzle, too much mystery, at the expense of intelligent story telling.

Meanwhile, not much actually happens.

[–] johnmiller (4011) 5 years ago

Thanks! And, it has that J.J. Abrams' Mystery Box thing going on. Which equals: Come up with a mystery, let it go on and on, but have no solution for it.

[–] maximmm (3409) 5 years ago

STD season 1 was fairly focused - with new mysterious revelations adding to the anticipation of the climax, not detracting from it. This is more like STD season 2, where very little happens between episode 1 and 10 (were there 10 episodes? I honestly don't care to check). Hell, even the climax in STD2 was lame and not worth force-watching 8 episodes of filler. I suspect that the answers to the suggested 'mysteries' in picard will be equally boring, since, thus far, everything suggests they've hired the same sort of writers.

[–] L1 (1316) 5 years ago

I think they may have overdone it. Obvioulsy the academy was trying to be more diverse