Star Trek: Picard is cis het nonsense
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sasha_featherStar Trek: Picard was disappointing and bad. Some minor spoilers ahead.
It was pretty to look at-- a high-budget show with good actors and effects. But the writing was bad.
The show had gore and death, including an extremely graphic torture scene in the opening of episode 5, and the deaths of two popular minor characters.
Disappointingly there was lots of cis nonsense such as using "he" to denote an unknown pilot, using pink and blue lights at a reproductive center, and saying a boy can't be a member of an order because the order is an all-women group.
Some folks are excited because there was a blink-and-you'll miss it scene in the final episode, implying that Seven of Nine might have a prospective girlfriend. I do like queering Seven, obviously, but this is the sort of crumb that media tosses us and demands credit for. Meanwhile there was an entire episode devoted to Riker and Troi's married life and nuclear family. Agnes, a literal murderer, gets a brief redemption arc and gets a boyfriend at the end. This show cares completely about straight relationships and sidelines queerness.
The dog only appears in the first episode.
There is a large section of the show devoted to ex-Borgs: a project involving a captured cube and attempts to reclaim and rehabilitate the drones. This was super fascinating, but pretty much a wasted plot line. The director of the rehab project is Hugh from Star Trek TNG. He's played beautifully by gay actor Jonathan del Arco. Hugh is murdered for no reason. Many of the "xBs" are also murdered.
The overall arc of the show is about synthetics (androids) and the fear and suspicion around them. I thought the xBs would have some role to play here, demonstrating the potential of combing synthetic and organic life, but no, that... just did not happen.
If you are super into Star Trek, I still think it is worth watching. But it is not good Star Trek and will go in the bad pile with the first movie.
It was pretty to look at-- a high-budget show with good actors and effects. But the writing was bad.
The show had gore and death, including an extremely graphic torture scene in the opening of episode 5, and the deaths of two popular minor characters.
Disappointingly there was lots of cis nonsense such as using "he" to denote an unknown pilot, using pink and blue lights at a reproductive center, and saying a boy can't be a member of an order because the order is an all-women group.
Some folks are excited because there was a blink-and-you'll miss it scene in the final episode, implying that Seven of Nine might have a prospective girlfriend. I do like queering Seven, obviously, but this is the sort of crumb that media tosses us and demands credit for. Meanwhile there was an entire episode devoted to Riker and Troi's married life and nuclear family. Agnes, a literal murderer, gets a brief redemption arc and gets a boyfriend at the end. This show cares completely about straight relationships and sidelines queerness.
The dog only appears in the first episode.
There is a large section of the show devoted to ex-Borgs: a project involving a captured cube and attempts to reclaim and rehabilitate the drones. This was super fascinating, but pretty much a wasted plot line. The director of the rehab project is Hugh from Star Trek TNG. He's played beautifully by gay actor Jonathan del Arco. Hugh is murdered for no reason. Many of the "xBs" are also murdered.
The overall arc of the show is about synthetics (androids) and the fear and suspicion around them. I thought the xBs would have some role to play here, demonstrating the potential of combing synthetic and organic life, but no, that... just did not happen.
If you are super into Star Trek, I still think it is worth watching. But it is not good Star Trek and will go in the bad pile with the first movie.
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Date: 2020-03-29 11:08 pm (UTC)The dog only appears in the first episode.
Okay, that's criminal.
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Date: 2020-03-30 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-30 05:01 pm (UTC)AIUI, yes Seven is definitely queer, with more to be done in the next season.
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Date: 2020-03-30 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-01 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-01 06:05 pm (UTC)