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Isn't Toby in IT? Why is he doing international deals? Why are Madison's holiday plans more valid than Kevin's? Especially since she seemed to have agreed to Thanks Giving at the cabin beforehand? Why is Kevin the one being berated over this? If she wants to spend Thanks Giving with her new boyfriend so bad, why can't the kids go to the cabin with Kevin alone? Do fathers have less of a right to spend time with their kids than mothers?

Then that lake has to have an outlet somwhere. It's not exactly massive. Circle it once.

Marvel did it 99,9% convincing 6 years ago. The technology is good enough. Also it wouldn't have been necessary anyway. They just took the lazy way out. Where has that been industry practice? We aren't talking flashbacks, where the older actor is still very much in the show or a reboot here. It is especially disrespectfull since Whoopie Goldberg is right there. Since they gave some wonky explaination for her aging anyway, there was no reason to not have her reprise her role in 2024. Except that it seems they wanted someone "young and hip", which is not Guinan and never was, even when she was turned into a child. I can't speak to stupid people from 30 years ago, sorry. But that's also not my argument. Not sure if you are deliberately misrepresenting it or didn't understand it. New Trek being different is fine (although I question why you'd want to be generic scifi #893 instead of being unique). What isn't fine is that the writing is/was mostly hot garbage. What also isn't fine is ignoring canon. You have to give reasons why you are different. Otherwise don't call your show "Star Trek". TNG was quite different from TOS, DS9 was quite different from TNG. That's all fine. It just has to be good. Sure, actors are always honest about their feelings in public talk shows. Even if Whoopie Goldberg doesn't think it's disrespectfull, I think it is.

Hehe. What was infuriating in GoT is really funny here. Who would have thought. Love the little stab.

Nah, I just want good writing and competent show runners. DS9 wasn't a perfect utopia. It showed the boundaries of federation ethics in the face of war. It's the best Trek show there is, imo. Modern Trek has just been horrible television for the past few years, that would have been cancelled after half a season if it didn't have the Star Trek name attached. Discovery got a bit better this last season and it seems Picard is doing so as well, but it's still not great TV. Kinda mediocre, entertaining schlock. That is a huge step up from before, but it's still not where good Trek, or TV in general, should be. I think regarding recast Guinan I've said my piece.

I have to say, this season is a lot better than the last one so far (although if I were mean I'd say that that is not saying much) and I am enjoying it for the most part. Still, there is just so much wrong with current Trek (except Lower Decks) and I need a place to blow off steam and that place is here. Sorry... not sorry. 😜

This was a very cute. But I couldn't help but notice that even on this very gay show, the hetero couple got a hot and steamy kiss with following (implied) sex, while the gay couple got a closed mouth kiss. I hope this gets a second season and that Blacky's broken heart can be mended, so we can see a bit more of those two. I really love how in this show with a row boat you can get pretty much anywhere in the world, it seems. It was already ridiculous in previous episodes but now Stede just sets out from Barbados (I assume) and just so happens to stumble upon his crew? It's probably partially intended as a joke, partially just for convenience, but I'm really quite amused any time it happens. Somehow it tickles my funny bone. I also just read a bit more into the real Stede Bonnet and I'm surprised about how much of this is true. I just assumed that all the stuff with blackbeard was fabricated for the show, but no, they did meet and Bonnet temporarily ceded his ship's command to Blackbeard. Then after some back and forth, Bonnet stayed on Blackbeards ship for a while.

It is good enough. It's just very expensive. Guess that shows where their priorities are. Also, as already stated, they could have just used current day Whoopy Goldberg, with a little tweak to her explaination in episode 1. It very much is. It's lazy. They were even too lazy to make sure that she acted like the real Guinan. Then again, Picard doesn't act like Picard, so I guess that's par for the course. She didn't capture the character at all. I could see a Guinan who has given up on humanity, but this wasn't it. The writing didn't work, so yes even her lines were wrong. Compare how she reacted to an Android in 1893, who told her about their andventures on a future spaceship, to how she reacted to an old man in her bar. But yes, also her delivery was wrong, for which I blame mostly the director and not the actress. You are giving them waaaaaay too much credit. It is apparent all the time that they don't know much. It has nothing to do with balancing requirements. You can see it all over the place. Just from this episode, how did storytelling require that Guinan's bar is in 10 foreward? There is no reason for it, other than the writers trying to be clever and revealing how dumb they are in the process.

I might be wrong. Might be I'm conflating it with the first episode of this season. Time seems to be meaningless at the moment. Probably not worth to go back and suffer through season 1.

Yeah, the writers don't know that. It already came up sometime last season, I'm pretty sure. They think it's just a name and probably thought they were clever to show here "what the origin of the name is". -.-

I never thought they would sink so low to recast Guinen. Boo. One thing you should realise: These writers don't know Star Trek. They have watched a few tentpole episodes but that is it. I mean when Data told Guinan in 1893 that he is an android and they'll serve on a star ship in the future together, she was like "yeah k, whatever". When Picard told her here she had a way, way, way too strong reaction for the character. Even before, when she thought he was just an alien. They never said anything to that effect. They made it seem like she could only chose to age faster, not age backwards. Also shape changing was never on the table. So recasting her was just a dick move. She looked the same in 1893 as she did in the 24th century, so why does she look completely different in 2024? It doesn't even seem like she will be much in this season. They really must have had a massive budget cut. Being set in the 2020s cuts down on scifi sets and they still can't even spring for a few minutes of de-aging CGI. Is that how time travel works? I don't think it used to be that way. But I guess how time travel works changes from episode to episode. So whatever. Probably because that was all Whoopie Goldberg and the writers and director don't actually know Guinan enough to make it consistent. *sigh* Just like if with the "let me catch up"-line in episode one he had first into a halloween skeleton, before turning into current day de Lancie. Sadly the writers don't get the humor that always came with Q. They could have just changed the line in episode one from "yeah I sped up my aging" to "yeah, we don't actually age slowly, we can control our age at will. I like to mix it up." That would have explained the fluctuating age and would have been less dumb than her to die 1000 years earlier just because people looked at her funny for not aging. Recasting was unnecessary and disrespectfull.

I mean he would have, if he had won, which he didn't. It still meant that I was rooting less for him than for the parents, who have kids, who'll go to college in a few short years.

Mentioned that one above.

Episode 5: loved how "gay free love" everybody was on the ship. Some people might think that it would be anachronistic, but pirates were actually pretty egalitarian and even had gay marriage.

True. But that wasn't how phasers functioned usually. Guess the writers sometimes fucked up even back then (now they fuck up constantly). That scene was badly written in general. There was obviously no protection from beaming, since Riker beamed in, so they could have just beamed her into an arrest cell. Also seems weird that she just shrugs off 2 stun beams and then gets vaporised after Riker cranks the setting only a little more. Guess altering her cells made her very unstable. /fanwank Probably at least partially true. Star Trek has never been super tight with its lore. But at least as far as I remember it remained fairly (obviously not in every instance) consistent on phasers not disintegrating bodies, in the TNG era. I think it was even a plot point once. But that memory is so vague, I might be wrong.

That might be true for TOS, I'm not that familiar with it, but TNG phasers never dissolved and we are post TNG now. TNG era romulan disruptors dissolved the body. I don't remember what klingon weapons did.

What really made me laugh was Raffi commenting on 2024 and the social injustice. Saying that it was a miracle that such a society didn't collapse sooner. When last season she was a drug addict who lived in a trailer in the desert and was ranting about Picard and his vineyard, with his heirloom furniture. Heavily implying that she had to live in that shitty trailer, with shitty furniture and it certainly wasn't her choice. I guess the writers forgot their shitty scifi dystopia from last season real quick. But it doesn't, does it? Disruptors dissolve. Phasers will just kill you, unless I'm totally misremembering. It was always the difference between the Federation and the more sneaky bad guys. If a federation member kills it has to be warrented and should be able to be confirmed afterwards. Plus the family should have a body and all that. There was only that one instance where they melted the possessed guys face off, but that was multiple phasers firing at max setting. Of course the Confederation would have dissolving weapons. I think it's more that Elnor is a boring peace of wood and fridging him provides Raffi with angst and motivation. Spock managed just fine in the past with his ears. I don't think so. She would look TNG-era-young in this time period. They weren't willing to deage her for her short meeting with Picard and made up a stupid story why she looked old. They aren't going to deage her now. She didn't. She said she can age if she wants to. No mention of getting younger again or any other alteration of appearence.

To be fair, being stuck in another country, with a not so great justice- and prisonsystem must be traumatic. But yeah, seems like she lived a pretty sheltered life up until that point. I think they pointed that out during the trial.

This is bit meta, but god damn it, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. On reddit this show came up and a circle jerk started about how Garner nailed the accent of the real Anna. When I said that it wasn't accurate at all, I got downvoted to hell. I know a lot of people here agreed that it was a hard miss, so how can that be? Are people on reddit just too young and haven't heard many accents yet? To reiterate, the real Anna has an accent that is a mix of german and russian. Garner, while being really good at Anna's affect and intonation, does an accent that is half Ozark and half all over the place (there was some irish, some english, but surprisingly little german or russian). I know she said that her process was to try and combine a german and russian accent, but she obviously failed at it. Pretty hard.

Hmm, I'm not sure about this one. Season 1 was perfection (and that's rare, usually these types of comedies need a season to find their voice). I don't know why the writers feel the need to "spice things up" with a bunch of new characters already. I would have been fine for them to develop the characters we know and love for another season.

From the interviews I've seen the real Anna has an accent that is a mix of german and russian. The accent isn't super thick, but always there and I think her trying to hide it makes her sound kinda monotone and a bit weird. I think that weird intonation Julia Garner captured pretty well. The actual accent, she didn't get even remotely close to. It's half the accent she does on Ozark and half all over the place. I was so confused when the millionair dude, on the yacht a few episodes ago, said he thought he detected some russian in her accent, since while it's certainly detectable when the real Anna speaks, there was not a smidge of russian in whatever Garner was doing at the time.

Didn't the producers say they'd reveal who the father was in the seaosn one finale? Liars. I think with that I might be done. I don't really fancy getting strung along for 9 years only to have everything ruined by a horrible finale again.

Those hyperloops thingies were very roomy. Way more space than a car. Nobody is going to get claustrophobic in those. No need for windows. So yeah, you need a better explaination than that. Also windows make no sense in a hyperloop. All you'd see is the metal tube the capsule is in.

Villanelle said Eve was a rainbow in beige boots. That's the episode title.

How do you make such a strange, interesting and absurde story boring? That is an accomplishment right there. I don't think I could have done this. First of all Kate McKinnon should have played Joe Exotic instead of Carol Baskin. Then they should have gotten Kristen Wiig as Carole. Already 200% better. Alternatively, get another actor for Joe, who can actually pull off that character. I think Rob Lowe wanted to do it. But mainly this needs way better writing. I'm still debating if I'll give it one more episode or call it quits right here.