{"id":3078,"date":"2020-07-22T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:58:26","slug":"9-5-picard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2020\/9-5-picard\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 Picard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the best space opera since Star Wars: A New Hope.  Yes I went there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t have the sheer thrills and explosive pioneering of George Lucas&#8217; master story, but it is a more mature story that deeply and believably develops all the ensemble&#8217;s motives, interweaves them, and delivers an epic ride.  The execution is brilliant, with powerful performances all around.  Wow.  I&#8217;ll be rewatching this one as much as LOTR, Blade Runner 2049 and the Star Trek reboots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a better handle on the source of its brilliance, peruse the Wikipedia page of the screenplay author, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Chabon\">Michael Chabon<\/a>.  So much to mine there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best space opera since Star Wars: A New Hope. Yes I went there. It doesn&#8217;t have the sheer thrills and explosive pioneering of George Lucas&#8217; master story, but it is a more mature story that deeply and believably develops all the ensemble&#8217;s motives, interweaves them, and delivers an epic ride. The execution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2020\/9-5-picard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9.5 Picard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tv-shows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-NE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/love-story-with-blasters\/","url_meta":{"origin":3078,"position":0},"title":"[9.5] Attack of the Clones","author":"m","date":"May 16, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"I dug it. 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