#some “will they won't they” happens and they don't become canon until halfway through the show

[unbreakablemouserat]

I'm sorry if this next post is be unnecessarily unhinged and make no sense at all but...

I'm still not over the fact that the actor who plays this autistic motherfucker...

...had a cameo on a random TV show which YouTube randomly recommended a clip of a few years ago (here's the clip for reference, that also has Yvette Nicole Brown's cameo)...

...and a while later I decided to watch that TV show because I thought the scene above was funny. The show is named Chuck and it is about a sitcom-type dork having a computer on his head and now having to live a double life in the spy world, where a blonde and a tough guy are his handlers (pictured below is the blonde and the titular dork)...

...and the dork and the blonde in the twisted way possible turned out to be one of my newest favorite ships ever...

This is fucking wrinkling my brain. What kind of butterfly effect sorcery is this?

[loreetperso]

I have watched a video about How Star Trek: Picard ruins Star Trek. I don't necessarily agree it ruins the entire franchise, but mostly because you can always ignore it. Retcon happens all the time and its not like the Star Trek timeline have always been carefully constructed.

I mean they use to stumble upon godlike entity all of the time in the freaking days, even in TNG. And they just... mostly gotten away without explanation, and nobody really question it. Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about. Angela Collier is right about the show being bad, and I agree with her through most of the video. Except... I mostly enjoyed ST: Picard. I never really though the show was good, but I enjoyed it. I had some frustrations with it too, but I was not as annoyed by them as Angella was. Part of it probably comes from the fact I hadn't watch TNG at the time. I'm halfway through it now, for reference. But I think part of it is my standards are a bit low... Space shows aren't exactly common, they are a thing I love in itself, so I was blinded by the shinnies. Also the kind of action seen it Picard is probably something I'm too confortable with? What I mean is this show is a shiny shell void of anything that made Star Trek interesting in the first place. It's dumb fun, but maybe this doesn't have to be Star Trek. Maybe it really shouldn't be.

I won't just paraphrase the video, it's a bit long but it's a good video. The point is, it's a bad show, but I enjoyed it and I didn't question it. And it wouldn't be too bad for a new franchise, but Star Trek has a legacy. A legacy build on bad first season leading to eventual very good shows, a legacy of though provoking stories, of politic statements, about a bright hopeful future... This is not what Picard is and it bothers me that it didn't bothered me watching it. It bothers me because it is a bastardization of a show that was special, and the new live Star Trek shows are loosing that specificity. Even Star Trek Strange New Worlds in some extent. The animated shows are doing much better. Anyway, all this to say what? ST Picard is not doing arm, not really to the canon of Star Trek, but to Star Trek as a franchise and to Star Trek as a narrative. You can always ignore part of a canon, but when the new stuff being produce is changing the narrative, you can't keep using its name in any meaningful way. At some point, Star Trek become just about whatever the new show-runner/producer want it to be about. It's just another settings, void of meaning.

And I don't want that. But it's difficult to recognize it's bad while I'm feeling entertain, even if I do recognize the show is bad. Certainly lacking a frame of reference made it harder to see what was lost. So people starting watching Star Trek with new Trek... probably won't see what is lost until they watch a bunch of old Trek. And it sucks, because it feels like homework, and we shouldn't have to do homework to watch a show. But I think we should very much care about a franchise legacy, even if we are not familiar with it. We should try to understand how things are changed. Because the producers don't care about it, so if we don't then... we'll just end up with a bunch of shiny empty shells.

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

I just read your comment on your post about the Loki series erasing Loki's entire canon to make it seems like it was all Kang and the Loki in the series is the "right" one, and ....I'm just heartsick. I can see this actually happening. It sounds like an insidious thing that the show creators would love to do. They are slowly stripping him of everything, until he's nothing. They're turning him into nothing. He'll become a full-fledge TVA agent with no will of his own and Sylvie will be the one to get him out of it, if he even wants to get out of it. And anything good they happen to let him do will all be credited to Sylvie. And people will remember him like this - a boring, bland, shriveled up brown and beige husk of the character he used to be. And nothing more. It's almost enough to make me weep, if I wasn't soooo done already.

I feel you, honey. It is a scary thought because of the way they're handling the multiverse and all that talk about free will in S1, now they have the opportunity to """fix""" whatever they don't like from previous phases by claiming it was part of Kang's plan or some bullshit excuse, and knowing they enjoy dragging Loki through the mud it wouldn't be so surprising if they made this new bland, boring and entirely one-dimensional excuse for a Loki the only canon™ Loki.

I remember a lot of posts from fans last year who claimed he had been written badly in all previous movies and the first time he had been written well was in the series, so they're halfway there. And what better way to ruin him completely than by doing that + having him work for a bunch of fascists...

Who knows, maybe we'll be lucky and they won't go that route but you never know.... For now, here's a Loki hug for you 😉