Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
01-24-20, 03:29 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
01-24-20, 03:43 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
I quite liked it and set up some interesting stuff with the synthetics, Romulans and hints of the Borg. I did find Spiner's very obvious wigs in the Data scenes a bit distracting, though.
01-24-20, 04:25 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Beautifully directed by Hanelle Culpepper. Picard's vineyard looks stunning in HD. I looked at Culpepper's background and prior to her working on Discovery last year, she was your typical for hire TV director. CBS must have really liked her work here to also make her co-executive Producer.
I also thought it was a good start. Sure it was not all action, but it was mostly set up.
I couldn't figure out where I've seen the actor who played Picard's Romulan housekeeper before. She looked really familiar. Then I looked it up. It was Orla Brady. She actually worked with Kurtzman on Fringe years ago.
I kind of chuckled when Dahj took Picard up that roof and he was gasping for air. You don't do that to an almost 80 year old man. This isn't 1987 Picard.
A couple things I noticed. The audio was really low and some scenes I could barely make out what they were saying so I had to turn on the Roku subs. Also, they obviously formatted for air on TV in other regions because it noticeable act breaks going to commercial break. I know Discovery is also formatted that way.
I also thought it was a good start. Sure it was not all action, but it was mostly set up.
I couldn't figure out where I've seen the actor who played Picard's Romulan housekeeper before. She looked really familiar. Then I looked it up. It was Orla Brady. She actually worked with Kurtzman on Fringe years ago.
I kind of chuckled when Dahj took Picard up that roof and he was gasping for air. You don't do that to an almost 80 year old man.
This isn't 1987 Picard.A couple things I noticed. The audio was really low and some scenes I could barely make out what they were saying so I had to turn on the Roku subs. Also, they obviously formatted for air on TV in other regions because it noticeable act breaks going to commercial break. I know Discovery is also formatted that way.
01-24-20, 04:28 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Shows on CBS All Access in the U.S. are shown with commercials unless you are paying extra for the ad free CBS AA. All CBS AA originals are made to have commercial breaks. I previously had the version with commercials but have been on the ad free version for a while now. I do notice where the ad breaks would be in their original shows (Discovery, Why Women Kill, No Activity, etc.). Luckily, I'm heading into my 3rd free month so I'm not even having to pay extra.
01-24-20, 04:33 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
The show is partly produced by Stewart and the writers take a lot of his input, so expect his scenes to be a lot more cerebral, and that's great. I've not much liked ther newer Treks leaning towards the action side of things.
01-24-20, 04:40 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Romulan blood is like Alien blood now? Acid?
01-24-20, 04:49 PM
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01-24-20, 04:54 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Maybe so, I was planning on rewatching so I'll look more closely.
01-24-20, 05:59 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Liked it. 
The caretakers gave away that they were Romulans right away with all the smiles, humor, and non-deadpan speech
The caretakers gave away that they were Romulans right away with all the smiles, humor, and non-deadpan speech
01-24-20, 06:43 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Not only that, it appears they had Scottish brogues. Romulans are the more emotional offshoots of Vulcans. When they first came on screen I was trying to figure out what race they were.
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01-24-20, 09:30 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
So that moron Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly, who gave The Witcher a bad review and skipped episodes, was assigned to review Picard.
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
01-24-20, 09:39 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Even though the one actress that plays one of the Romulan is pushing 60, she is still very atractive.
01-24-20, 10:00 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
So that moron Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly, who gave The Witcher a bad review and skipped episodes, was assigned to review Picard.
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
01-25-20, 11:03 AM
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1st episode was fantastic!!!!. This may turn out to be better than The Mandalorian ( which I also loved).
01-25-20, 11:14 AM
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01-25-20, 11:49 AM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
I think it’s been said that with advancements in medical technology that human life expectancy in the 24th century is 120 or so. Although in TNG when McCoy was aboard the Enterprise D he was 137. So by those standards Picard is still somewhat young.
01-25-20, 12:30 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
So that moron Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly, who gave The Witcher a bad review and skipped episodes, was assigned to review Picard.
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
They need to get rid of this guy. Another shitty review. He's a terrible writer. This guy seems to have a stick up his ass when being assigned genre TV shows. He's getting ripped to shreds in the comments.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2020/01/23...picard-review/
01-25-20, 12:58 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
It seemed weird even though they were Romulans to be showing emotions like that. On TNG they seemed to almost emotionless, but on this show they act more like humans with pointy ears and funny eyebrows.
Even though the one actress that plays one of the Romulan is pushing 60, she is still very atractive.
Even though the one actress that plays one of the Romulan is pushing 60, she is still very atractive.
01-25-20, 01:10 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
So now we have two active and simultaneously running Picard threads. This one for the episode and that older preview thread. Might be confusing to some here.
01-25-20, 02:28 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
Maybe the other should be renamed to be news or whatever. Mine is clearly marked as an episode thread so it shouldn’t be too confusing if people read the title and see the S1E1 and date.
01-25-20, 02:29 PM
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01-26-20, 07:47 PM
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Re: Star Trek: Picard - Remembrance (S1E1) - 1/23/20
This was great, very happy to get a free month to check this out, definitely seeing it through to the end and going to catch up on discovery as well...
a great start looking forward to the weekly eps...
a great start looking forward to the weekly eps...