This shows how desperate CBS is to get more subscriptions to their ALLACCESS service. Whatever the navel gazers are thinking about DISCO it is not the lofty success they think it is, and CBS has to milk the well and throw sh*t at the wall hoping it'll stick.
I hope the navel is an innie...
I concur. Had DSC actually worked out, they wouldn't have spun the "wheel of showrunner" so many times, or shallow, hollow pandering to audiences the way that seems ubiquitous nowadays. If DSC was popular they'd still do all these spinoffs but with more assuredness. Maybe Picard and Section31 will actually do what DSC could not, if they have tighter storylines and arcs...
Patrick Stewart can not carry the entire franchise like he once did in the 80's; was young and compelling figure to watch every episode of TNG. Now, he's an old man, withering away. If I'm watching this limited series I expect to see Patrick Stewart and not Tom Hardy or any other young actor to play Picard until that series ends.
Yeah, because in 1987 Gene wanted a middle aged bald guy without slapping a wig onto him and being caked in make-up to look a decade younger to look more "soap opera studly"... his acting back then was compelling. His acting in X-Men was compelling. If he trotted the landscape via jet plane to do local planes he'd be compelling. David McCallum is he's almost a decade older and is still compelling to watch in NCIS (or was, I've not seen the show in a couple of years but I don't necessarily watch shows solely for any single actor involved), so why wouldn't Stewart be if he's able and willing and wanting? (Unfortunately, Macht was technically only 2 years younger but still looked younger than that... )
And Stewart's Picard did carry rather a lot of season 1 when the scripts for everyone else, or even for Picard (!!!), were sub-par. That's not a dig at other actors, Stewart simply had arguably the most acting experience and drew out potential in Picard that the writers latched onto* and honed. Season 1 growing pains and all...
* it was Robert Justman (of TOS fame) that convinced Roddenberry to go with a bald middle aged guy instead of a young firm hunky cliche with real, luxurious hair and not the hair made from the same soft and luxurious vinyl material going into
Corinthian Leather...
Lots of 30 year olds wither away as well. The issue is more of... attitude. Or "you're as old as you feel", ignoring real life issues of being older and more frail aside and some 30 year olds aren't as lucky. But more real 30 year olds will have to wait a while before experiencing the thrill of that, though they'll likely start to get an inkling by their 40s.
That's an amazingly condescending remark toward him and toward the project. Patrick Stewart is approaching this project with zeal, not as something CBS is somehow forcing him to do, and fans should be grateful that he wants to step into the role again. It would be bizarre if his voice and appearance hadn't changed over the decades, so it's odd to be launching attacks over that. He's an incredible actor who deserves more respect than that.
Many fans are indeed curious, many excited and hopeful. Some cautiously so. He's willing to do all this work, and must have really liked the sales pitch he got. Whatever that pitch is, which must be compelling to Stewart but not necessarily to audiences - of which audiences may or may not know of or ultimately enjoy... until any produced scripts are aired. May Picard get better script treatment than say, oh, Scotty...
He's aged, everyone does. When people are told "never grow old", they often mean it for two reasons - neither of which the one being told always appreciates until time's tenacious traipsing takes its toll... by the seashore. (man, that alliteration made even me wretch...)
