I said earlier to a friend IRL that I was watching Picard this evening and would “try not to get too irritated” and they looked at me a bit like ??? and said “I thought you liked Picard?”

I have been ramble ranting about stuff that bugs me, more than I have been praising it, mostly because I genuinely have not been vibing with the writing this season. So it occurred to me that maybe it wasn’t actually clear online either.

I love Star Trek. I love the world and the characters. What I do not love is some of the writing, and where there is missed potential. I ramble rant because I care/love it so much. I’m not somebody that loves to hate. I love to love. I have a genuine appreciation. I am just frustrated. Now this frustration (if it continues) will eventually lead me to lose interest. There is only so much I can take of what I love going in a direction I can’t follow before I peace out. With the season only being 10 episodes and how much love I have for Trek, I will see it through. They are being coy about what comes next but if something follows I would have to think about whether to invest in it. I ramble rant because I care, because I want the show to be better.

I do realise that it’s a “can’t please all people” thing and that what I don’t vibe with could be someone else’s favourite. So I get that I’m not ‘right’ and I shouldn’t say ‘better’ as that is subjective. I guess what I mean is I really want the show to be better for me.

It’s pretty clear that my ‘vision’ as it were, doesn’t align with the writers. That is why I am trying to be diplomatic when I say “don’t vibe with” as opposed to “the writing sucks”. As judging the writing because I don’t like it is… well I can justify my opinion with analysis but as I know from painful experience in English class. The so called ‘classics’ are held up as a pinnacle of excellence and quite a few of those I thought were trash – sorry didn’t vibe with. You can basically find evidence to support any opinion of good/bad storytelling. Some critiques are more accepted/have more weight than others of course… I swear I had a point.

Basically TLDR please don’t take my ramble ranting as I sign of hatred as it’s not. It’s actually a sign of frustrated love. If I had more spoons there would have been so much fix-it fic by now.