Can't wait to see this! February 16th can't come fast enough.
Final Trailer!
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Didn't we already know this?
An incredible show
The universe isn't at stake. The trailer doesn't even imply that.
Very much agreed. It looked like any generic scifi action movie which is what ST has become at the theater anyway.
The 'hopeful' part that I can think of is that they showed this during an NFL football game so they have to play up to the action given the audience, you know?
That was Riker if you freeze the shot.
Maybe, but this is Season 3 of Picard. It's not like the show is going to find a new audience, and the fact that it's a Star Trek show (And the attitude some Trek fans have when it comes to Football makes me believe the two are not as compatible in the overall fandom as they are with me personally, calling it Sportsball and all) doesn't really make a football audience jump for joy.
I knew him, of all places, as guest starring in two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm over a decade ago.
S3 is probably the best stab P+ has at getting a wider audience checking out current Trek, I'd think. TNG had very broad appeal back in the day, and being able to finally wave an actual TNG reunion in front of folks might pique some general interest for this season. And, potentially, for any proposed "next next generation" spinoffs.
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I haven't even seen the trailer yet, but Riker telling Picard "Trust no one"? It's Tom Riker. That's the twist.
Saved you ten hours.
Saved you ten hours.
They're not looking for a new audience. They're looking for an old audience. They want the 40-somethings who used to watch TNG excited that the entire crew is back. PIC Season 1 didn't have everyone back. Season 3 does.
Let's assume for the sake of argument the show is legit good. With the right promotion and social engagement, it should be able to triple (or more) the existing audience. In the publicly available ratings from Canada, Picard season 1 lost over half its audience as it aired. Just getting very disaffected people back, let alone people that were fans back in the day should be doable. Several of the early access reviewers on Twitter were talking about partners that aren't into the Star Trek franchise getting into the show as well.
It would be great if Paramount+ put 301 on YouTube, or hell, even aired it on CBS. They should also do a Netflix style seasons 1 and 2 recap, preferably edited by Terry Matalas, of under 10 minutes so people get the necessary backstory without the fear of oh I'm going to miss something so I won't check it out at all response. And maybe do something like Hulu did with The Orville ("New Horizons") and have a subtitle for the new season in place of "Season 3"
Okay so I've seen it. It looks like Star Trek Nemesis II, but with even older cast members. It's such a course change from season one that might as well not have happened.
Shame, since season one was for the most part, good. Season two had some solid gold moments mixed with a LOT of fecal matter, and this is made by the exact same team as S2 so expecting any better is futile. Twitter is spammed with people saying almost word for word the exact same things about episodes 1-6 again and again. Almost as if they were prepared talking points or something.
I really hope I'm wrong, but I'm expecting a lot of cringe, fanwank and pewpew.
Shame, since season one was for the most part, good. Season two had some solid gold moments mixed with a LOT of fecal matter, and this is made by the exact same team as S2 so expecting any better is futile. Twitter is spammed with people saying almost word for word the exact same things about episodes 1-6 again and again. Almost as if they were prepared talking points or something.
I really hope I'm wrong, but I'm expecting a lot of cringe, fanwank and pewpew.
I hope for their sake Nostalgia is a powerful drug. It's been nearly 30 years since TNG ended so that's 30 years of being out of sight out of mind. We'll see what happens.
Paramount+ does have the Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone franchise going now and his other projects. Potential crossover audience? Gen X and older Millennials could fit. I haven't seen any of those shows, but Sheridan did write Denis Villeneuve's excellent Sicario film so maybe the other stuff is good?
My to watch backlog is almost a year's worth of content at this point, and I just got into Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, The Prisoner, The 4400, and Orphan Black so I won't get to checking it out any time soon!
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