Lower Decks is pretty great and worth watching. I haven’t dug into Discovery yet, I was giving it a couple seasons to find its footing and haven’t circled back to see if it did.
What I’ve seen of Picard struck me as being more comprable to the fall of the USSR to revisionism and corruption. That’s an interesting concept to play with, although I doubt they really approached it with a leftist lens.
This essay made me want to sit down and watch through Picard, however, it sounds fun and I’m the type of person who can watch a sequel without it ruining previous parts of series for me.
Lower Decks has the same advantage as stuff like obscure Star Wars novels have, where the money grubbing Eye of Sauron isn't too focused on them so they can wander off and do interesting shit.
I'm through S1 of Discovery and I'm conflicted. One hand, I ripped through the season pretty quick as I found myself wanting to watch the next ep pretty soon after finishing the last one. It's visually stunning and the acting is pretty good.
OTOH... much like you're talking about with Picard, it lacks much optimism. It doesn't "feel" like Trek. Characters other than one or two are pretty shallow and uninteresting.
So I guess I'd say it's decent for a sci-fi show, I just wouldn't really consider it much as "Star Trek", if that makes sense.
Lower Decks is pretty great and worth watching. I haven’t dug into Discovery yet, I was giving it a couple seasons to find its footing and haven’t circled back to see if it did.
What I’ve seen of Picard struck me as being more comprable to the fall of the USSR to revisionism and corruption. That’s an interesting concept to play with, although I doubt they really approached it with a leftist lens.
This essay made me want to sit down and watch through Picard, however, it sounds fun and I’m the type of person who can watch a sequel without it ruining previous parts of series for me.
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Lower Decks has the same advantage as stuff like obscure Star Wars novels have, where the money grubbing Eye of Sauron isn't too focused on them so they can wander off and do interesting shit.
I'm through S1 of Discovery and I'm conflicted. One hand, I ripped through the season pretty quick as I found myself wanting to watch the next ep pretty soon after finishing the last one. It's visually stunning and the acting is pretty good.
OTOH... much like you're talking about with Picard, it lacks much optimism. It doesn't "feel" like Trek. Characters other than one or two are pretty shallow and uninteresting.
So I guess I'd say it's decent for a sci-fi show, I just wouldn't really consider it much as "Star Trek", if that makes sense.
Under no circumstances will Buffer Time be surrendered. :picard-direct-action: