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Wait, wait, wait... hold up!
Star Trek: Picard had a musical score???
I must have forgotten that when I purged the show from my memory.
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Wait, wait, wait... hold up!
Star Trek: Picard had a musical score???
I must have forgotten that when I purged the show from my memory.
Should have been called Star Trek: JL, because Picard was nowhere to be seen.
As for the music, it sounded perfectly fine but very far removed from what came before, which sadly only made it feel even less like Star Trek. I guess it suits the show well in that regard, since it's just a generic sci-fi filled with graphic violence, F-bombs and a plot stolen from Mass Efffect.
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I like the music in PICARD. I think the main title is a bit too understated, really, but I suppose that sets you up for the show itself being a bit languidly paced. The underscore itself is showing a lot of variety, although surprisingly there's a bit of temp love in there which I don't remember hearing as much on DISCOVERY.
Overall, I've been happy with Russo's music on these shows. I thought DISCOVERY 1 didn't always leave a huge impression, musically, but he did some great work in DISCOVERY 2 and there have been a lot of interesting components to his music for PICARD 1.
As for the show itself, I thought PICARD was massively disappointing, especially toward the end of the season. I hated what they did with the main characters. I really don't understand the modern impulse to take beloved heroes from 20-30 years ago and to set them in a world where everything has gone to hell and people have depressing terminal illnesses, et al.
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Apr 3, 2020 - 8:55 AM
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JGouse0498
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Now that it's been a week removed from the finale, I find myself feeling a bit different about the show--in a negative sense. I definitely question the colossal development with Picard's mind being transferred into a synth as that seems to be jumping the shark, but I think the thing I'm realizing most is that many of the secondary characters ended up pretty underdeveloped and non-memorable...and they shouldn't have been.
Additionally, the Romulan threat turned out to be a huge nothing in the end, and they gave up way too easily!
In the same vein, the extra-galactic Uber-Synth threat was just as monumentally disappointing I hope that gets revisited in Season 2 because I can't imagine they won't coming looking for the Federation much like the Borg did after Q's little stunt.
On the plus side, the show managed to be nostalgic with its Next Generation characters in a rather natural way. It made sense for Hugh to be on the Borg Cube. Seven's inclusion made sense for her character too. Data's presence in the simulation made sense too. Riker and Troi were handled very well. Overall, the few characters that they brought back had a function and weren't just trotted out for show.
Isa Briones definitely stole the show in her multiple roles except that Soji's sudden anti-organic turn in the last episode was too rushed--much like Anakin's turn to the Dark Side TBH.
I haven't watched Discovery nor listened to the music, so I can't comment on the quality. However, I really enjoy Russo's themes in Picard a great deal, and I'm eager to hear what he comes up with for Season 2.
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It made sense for Hugh to be on the Borg Cube. Seven's inclusion made sense for her character too
I don't think ANYTHING about the Borg cube made sense, nor did it seem to be relevant to the season's overall plot. We later learn that Bruce Maddox sent Soji to the artifact to learn "the truth" about the synth ban. What truth could she have possibly learned there? It was full of Romulans attempting to take parts out of ex-communicated Borg so they could presumably sell them and make money? She had no reason to really be there, and that entire storyline went nowhere.
Likewise, what could Dahj have learned at the Daystrom Institute? It was a ghost town and Maddox himself used to work there! He also used to have a relationship with Dr. Jurati, who was still there would probably respond to a text or something if he had bothered to send one. Nothing about how this season was set up makes any sense.
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I think you may be confusing two plot points. The black market Borg harvesting wasn't the Romulans on the cube. That was only in Episode 5 and involved the traffickers on Freecloud.
While you're correct that that's what's happening in the "Borg Chop Shop" in 105, at the beginning of 103 there's dialogue between Soji and Narek when they're in bed together (during the fly-through of the of Borg Cube at the beginning of the episode) which indicates that that's what the Romulans are doing on The Artifact as well. The Romulans don't care about helping the xBs... they just want the technology. So, the Romulans are essentially doing the same thing that Bjayzl's group is, but the Romulans are being a bit more civilized about it.
I agree that it might have been a nice foundation for what an alternate version of this season could have been about! Toward the end of 106, Picard promises Hugh that he'll advocate for xB rights. I wonder if he's actually do it in future seasons.
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So the cues in the finale are missing that use the TMP theme. Real nice.
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That final track, "Star Trek Picard Episode 110 End Credits (Full Version)," is quite something. I love that kind of lively rhythm, almost like a bourrée. Nice.
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