(RE)WATCHED IN 2023: Dear Mr. Pilgrim, it has come to my attention that we will be fighting soon. My name is Matthew Patel, and blah blah blah.... Fair warning, mano y mano, seven evil blah blah. This is...this is...this is boring. Delete!
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (2010) DIR. EDGAR WRIGHT
Something not a lot of people are talking about is how disrespectful and insulting Season 3 (and Season 2 as well, let's be honest) of Picard is to the viewers who actually liked Season 1. How this show was such a dishonest fucking bait-and-switch. The way S2 unceremoniously dumped the orginal cast, either killing them off ignominiously or straight up firing the actors.
"Well, duh. The show is titled Star Trek: Picard, not Star Trek: Sirena"
Perhaps an argument could be made, but if you were me and meticulously following any and all news of this brand new shiny show that Santiago Cabrera was going to star in back in 2019, you would have noticed that they consistently marketed it as a new, fresh chapter in Picard's life with Patrick Stewart insisting that it had to be something new and different and not a TNG 2.0. All the interviews and cons the cast appeared in repeatedly assured us that this was not a Star Trek: TNG, Electric Boogaloo, but a different show with a different tone and a different Picard and a different crew. That was the idea they marketed us. That was the story they sold us. That was what compelled me to tune in to this show.
And what did this show end up being after Season 1? A fucking Star Trek: TNG, Electric Boogaloo
Fuck the writers. Fuck the producers. Fuck everybody involved in this decision