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Ppl posting about how much they hate Tiger King is what I sounded like as soon as I realized that new Picard was a total piece of shit. Patrick Stewart and the occassional star trek alumni appearances were literally the only "good" thing about the show.
Picard was OFFENSIVELY bad, mostly because it didn't know what it wanted to be, completely failed to write, like, a script?, and used every Prestige TV Cinematography bullet point (shaky cam, lens flares/blurs, inaudibly whispered lines, etc) without a sense of purpose or impact.
Picard should have been a totally original new JJ Abrams Star Trek premise, without any of the old cast involved, because that's what the show actually was. Picard and the rest of those characters were just a bait and switch to get the old fans watching and did nothing with them.
Earlier when I said "the alumni were the only good thing" about the show? The sad thing is that their presence didn't add anything useful or meaningful to the show and what it was trying to do. The show didn't benefit from Data, or Picard. It half-pretended they weren't there.
Nothing in the plot or lore actually required Picard or Data because the show writers never bothered to leverage either of their relationships, personality, etc. They used the LIKENESS of these characters, and they behaved however they needed to for the story to happen.
The show also felt like about 26 episodes worth of narrative stripped down and diced up into 10 episodes. At all times the script feels both like there is no breathing room, no setup, no reveal, no pacing. Shit Just Constantly Happens. But the scenes also take SO LONG to get thru
Half the time the show is explaining background/lore, it's the characters TALKING ABOUT how some really important shit happened once a long time ago, instead of showing you. And when it shows you, it often does it in a way that makes the conveyance REALLY CONFUSING & distracting.
Like, in the first episode, there are two scenes that occur. They could have, should have, been shown happening back (Picard & Co at his estate in France, then Picard & Co in San Francisco). But the show weaves the 2 scenes together so they jump from once scene to the other.
The show never has to do this. It never has a reason for two scenes to be shown as if they are happening simulteneously. It almost always happens with THE SAME GROUP OF CHARACTERS being in 2 places at once, but in a way that would have been more coherent if shown sequentially.
And once again, nothing about this show needed to have any direct ties to TNG. Nothing about this show earned its connection to Old Star Trek.
In fact the entire show is just one un-earned character moment after another. Trust, triumph, companionship... none of it earned.
In fact the entire show is just one un-earned character moment after another. Trust, triumph, companionship... none of it earned.
Every single time, if the episode needed to have a Special Moment with a given character, it would spend that episode introducing The Thing the character would have A Moment about, then eventually proceed to The Moment. They could have set these things up in earlier episodes.d
If they had, then the Special Moments each of the characters seem to go through woudl have had weight, emotional impact, some sense of satisfaction. But its done in such a rote way, just assuming you'll Be Invested without building up the characters and making you like them.
And then there was that thing with the Pilot character and his wacky-accented holograms? What was that all about?
Everything was so weird and I often found myself shouting at the show while I watched.
I guess I recommend it if you enjoy watching train wrecks or if your expectations for what TV should be have been severely lowered by watching the last 2 decades of television.
I guess I recommend it if you enjoy watching train wrecks or if your expectations for what TV should be have been severely lowered by watching the last 2 decades of television.
