I felt DS9 was doing it a little late in the game because Babylon 5 was written with a series arc from inception.
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No spoilers. This second episode of Picard was very good. There were a lot of action, fan service and cliffhangers.
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Damn it, I will have to wait on that for a month, approximately. The person who is sharing is away, and I do not have access right now.
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It’s funny, but I really hated that theme song. I tried to watch it when it first aired but we didn’t have a dvr and I feel like it aired the same night as one of my classes. I also went back and watched it a few years back and the song wasn’t nearly as annoying as I remembered.
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Sure, but I’m guessing that there were probably other shows doing similar things. For example, Twin Peaks was also highly interconnected storytelling, back in 1990… And soap operas had been doing that since they were on the radio and on the early days of TV. 
I’d argue that both Babylon 5 and DS9 were just both on the bleeding edge of that kind of storytelling for TV… sort of both being part of a period where the kind of storytelling that is possible was changing.
We dropped out during the original run pretty early too… but going back to rewatch it, it really is a solid show. Like any Trek, it has high moments and low ones, but overall, I enjoyed it.
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I always felt like that is what Twin Peaks so special at the time. The collision of David Lynch’s off-kilter sensibilities and Mark Frost’s soap opera derived multi-episode plotting and twists suddenly appearing in prime time with a real budget. At the time it was eye opening!
Especially since I had not watched a soap opera aside from occasional episode of Santa Barbara when I was home sick from school, which never let me experience the flow of the ongoing story.
It’s kinda weird, in a way, that my current “all in” obsession is the episodic Pokerface. But good story telling will always win out, I guess, regardless of the format! So I can enjoy both Discovery and Picard and Strange New Worlds!
Truly it’s…
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I wish i could quit you, but not today. Just when i think i’m out it pulls me back in.
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I was. Trek fatigue, and how the title theme merely wallpapered over the formulaic crew, the little things that felt off like the rank pips of the 24th century, ignoring the rank insignia of the 23rd. The incidental music that was interchangeable with Voyager, and also the growing disregard for simple physics. It just felt tired, worn out.
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What I lam loving about this captain is that he cares. He cares for his crew. He cares for the Federation. And when he does help the two old retirees? It’s because he gets it, he understands compassion and love.
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I love whenever Todd Stashwick shows up in something! He’s one of those actors that pops up all the time in genre shows that I love - Supernatural, Psych, Warehouse 23, all sorts of stuff. Usually small parts (I still need to get around to watching the 12 Monkeys series, since I guess he has a larger role in it), but he’s always a delight!
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Yeah, there’s clearly more to Shaw than we first saw. I’m quite intrigued by Amanda Plummer’s character’s line to him about his mental health. I don’t think his reluctance to action is based entirely on him being a by-the-book martinet.
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I yelled “It’s Captain Honey Bunny!” and my wife said “what the hell are talking about.”
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Yeah, I suspect he Saw Some Shit™, maybe as an XO, which is why he’s so insistent upon being by the book on the Titan: he knows first hand what recklessness can do.
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I was a bit iffy on Picard last week, it really felt like the slowed the plot down so they could have that big moment cliffhanger, but enjoyed this week a lot more, in part because stuff happened to the point that I thought Jack in the access corridor was going to be the cliffhanger and was surprised to see 15 minutes left in the episode. There was good bookending of events too, between Riker and Picard’s conversation about the turbolift early on, and Beverly talking about the danger Jack would be in if they stayed in Picard’s life. Worf and Raffi are a fun double act, and Jack and Seven’s scenes together worked well. Oh, and I know I was iffy on the reuse of old music in episode 1 but the Blaster Beam showing up here for the Shrike was great. More of this, please.
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“Don’t make me play this!”
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Most venues don’t have the liability coverage for that
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