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I only watched the first episode so far. I swear to god, if they don't bring Data's daughter back to life, I'm going to commit warcrimes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Read up the season 1 and 2 spoilers and jump to season 3. It’s a total change and a love letter finale to TNG.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It is, but I think the writers don't quite understand the ramifications of what they've made canon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much.

Seasons one and two suffered from such weird plotting and pacing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Season one was originally written from the androids perspective without the involvement of Sir Patrick. The studio execs wanted a big name attached to the project, so they rewrote it to center around Picard. This pretty much ruined the story.

[–] StrangeWorrier 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm gonna be honest, stop now. Picard is not a good show.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

is this still true even with s3? My friend has been trying to talk me into Picard for ages and they said s3 was good Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@lwaxana_katana @StrangeWorrier
S03 is up there with the best of Trek. I liked 01 & 02 also, but that's me. They're hard to recommend. I absolutely recommend 03, and the other two seasons aren't prerequisites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, I also enjoyed S1&2 - each to their own really but S3 was by far the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hrmmm interesting, ty!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just a simple man, but season 1 was just kind of ok, season 2 I'm still not sure what happened, but season 3 really hit the spot for me.

[–] coolcrowe 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is how I feel. If you go in without expectations it's pretty enjoyable, I liked it for what it was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm someone who hated season 1. Season 3 is worth the watch and feels like a great coda to TNG. It's almost like an extended reimagining of "All Good Things" which also ties up a few loose ends from the movies and dedicates more time to showing how the characters have grown as people and, in some cases, parents.

There are some moments where it feels like Discovery or prior Picard, but not enough to weigh down the show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's solid. It's a lot better than s1 or s2, and a better than any season of discovery. It's not as good as Strange New Worlds or Prodigy.

[–] DoctorWheeze 3 points 1 year ago

It's a hell of a lot better than the first two seasons, but that's not a super high bar. Season 2 is probably the worst, most baffling season of television I've ever watched. Season 3 at least mostly made sense and was reasonably entertaining most of the way through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, S3 is like a big long TNG movie and it is awesome

[–] KelsonV 1 points 1 year ago

Depends, did you like TNG the show, or TNG the movies? If you liked the movies, you'll probably like Picard S3.

[–] StrangeWorrier 1 points 1 year ago

Eventually is turns into Picard again and has some inexplicable decisions and bad ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also why the fuck do I have to put a URL in order to post. This website is weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

why the fuck do I have to put a URL in order to post.

You do not

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The field is always there, but you don't have to fill it. Unlike Reddit, there's no hard distinction between link posts and self posts; it's just a matter of which fields you fill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I see other posts that are only text based and just have a title and text, though I haven't tried it yet myself.