Picard

[beccaelizabeth]

Finished watching Picard season one.
Many different times it made me cry, probably not in the ways it was trying to.
There were things about the last episode solution I very much liked
but
nothing with Data.

I want to argue with that very much.

I can see how the writers got that story from available parts
but




... I paused very long after writing but.
Big complicated.




I do not know if I liked it.

I want to argue with many of it but
I do not know.




So now it is two in the morning and I should have left the last two episodes for tomorrow.

But I wanted to see how it would go.


... and now I still want to see what happens next, which I guess is the part writers care about.




Grumpy and full of feelings though.


I shall sleep.

Comments

[kickair8p]

Yeah, the whole "mortality is fundamental to humanity, without it we aren't human" bit really sticks in my craw.

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[beccaelizabeth]

Yes!
Change is important, choices are important, but I refuse to put death on a pedestal.

And how long is a 'human' life then? It changed so much in the last century, it's even longer on Star Trek, and they have close friend races that live much longer than that, and just... the difference between living a really long time and immortality is so huge, five thousand years is nothing compared to planetary timescales, watch a few suns burn up if you can manage it, then get some perspective on mortality! Eternity is really freaking long, see birds and diamond mountains, but try for it anyway!

I just... I have feelings, and the story has opinions, and they are not going to meet.

[beccaelizabeth]

Also! Just because one older set of synthetics are dicks trying to radicalise new synthetics does not mean there are genuinely two sides here. Unless it is those guys, who want there to be hate and fear and pain, and literally everyone else. And that isn't an organic vs synthetic divide! And in what sense are flesh and blood constructs not organic?!

... I can see what the story was trying to do but I have loud feelings about it.


The character stuff was plausible and consistent and so sometimes I think it is characters I want to yell at, but then I remember a lot of worldbuilding decisions that didnt make entire sense, like money, and then I dont know.