From the RedLetterMedia thread:
. Yeah...even if they ignored the movies, Picard was always a mentor to Data on the ways of humanity. So much Shakespeare on the holodeck. They were definitely good friends, though I think the movies and the show always wanted them to be akin to Kirk and Spock, which really doesn't fit the characters.
Man, Rich really loves his post racial utopia too much, without exploring the logistics to get there. He basically wants his golden-age Federation back without reflecting on whether it was 1.) sustainable (it wasn't, was cracking at the seams from the very beginning) or 2.) truly was a utopia for the people who inhabited it (it wasn't, and the plight of the marginalized even within the Federation was a major focus of so many great episodes). He basically wants cozy fantasy, not science-fiction. And it's so strange for them to be praising Gene so much when TNG only became consistently great when it stepped out from his outdated vision.
Is Picard the show that will usher in more optimistic sci-fiction? I don't know yet. But I think Picard the character on a journey to remind the Federation of its lost ways and to hopefully a better future is by far the most compelling aspect of the show. It's a shame they can't see that.
Lol. This is like when Mike and Jay though the Force Awakens was just a initial Launching point and the nostalgia fest will stop in the next films (or Mike believing Star Trek Reboot will become less dumb after the first film). They are just learning that this is not going to happen as long of the Bad Robot alumni is involved on this stuff. I seriously doubt this will happen, even if the actually are attempting this, given their incompetence.
While I feel their review was kind of nitpicking and Rich is truly mostly an idiot about racial issues, it weird me out when RE defends this types of updates to famous franchises when they despise DC films so much (that do this exact thing as bad).
