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Picard (no spoilers)
Monday, January 27th, 2020 05:09 pmI am home sick. A tummy bug my daughter brought home which nobody got knocked me flat, so I should listen to my body when it tells me to stay TF home and get some rest.
I had a very pleasant weekend, though, with watching Picard, which turned out to be surprisingly unhorrible. What I had missed dearly in ENT and the eternally godawful Disco is finally back - something approaching an ethical backbone within a universe that is again closer to Trek than Wars inspite of the Blade Runner influence.
Even though I enjoy a good morally grey character, I'm heartily sick of their ubiquity. Not everything needs to be dark and gritty, visions of utopian societies are permissible now as necessary as before. Utopias, even though they always become Dystopias when they are out-dated, show us what we can dare to hope.
And I'm saying this as someone who does even not exist in Gene Roddenberries original utopia. Anyway, rant over, I had a good time and enjoyed watching Patrick Stewart as much as ever and will be very unhappy once the dark-and-gritty-crown mess this up, as they do.
I had a very pleasant weekend, though, with watching Picard, which turned out to be surprisingly unhorrible. What I had missed dearly in ENT and the eternally godawful Disco is finally back - something approaching an ethical backbone within a universe that is again closer to Trek than Wars inspite of the Blade Runner influence.
Even though I enjoy a good morally grey character, I'm heartily sick of their ubiquity. Not everything needs to be dark and gritty, visions of utopian societies are permissible now as necessary as before. Utopias, even though they always become Dystopias when they are out-dated, show us what we can dare to hope.
And I'm saying this as someone who does even not exist in Gene Roddenberries original utopia. Anyway, rant over, I had a good time and enjoyed watching Patrick Stewart as much as ever and will be very unhappy once the dark-and-gritty-crown mess this up, as they do.
