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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7475718" data-attributes="member: 177">Those are excellent questions.  I have no expectation to know the answers to them before we actually see the show. By hiring good writers, really.  That's the essence of good fiction, is it not? Personal investment and ownership are not the same thing.  I could dump every ounce of resources I have into Microsoft stock - I could be fully invested in it.  But I wouldn't come anywhere near having *ownership* of the company if I did that.  The very *idea* of Luke Skywalker has been in other people's hands too much for too many years for Hamill to really own it.I think - when people think of Luke, they don't first refer back to Hamill's original performance.  They refer to an ideal in their head of Luke Skywalker.  When people think of Picard, they first think of Stewart's performance.  That's the difference  - while Picard is legendary, Skywalker is the stuff of myths.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I don't think the question could be answered (or should be posed) in the general sense - it is too vague to be meaningful.  The only question that needs answering right now is - do you trust the actor's judgement enough to remain interested and open-minded?  That's all the commitment required of us at this stage. Any actor who doesn't make a bomb on occasion probably isn't taking enough risks. It seems to me that doing such stuff is also an excellent way for an actor to make sure they don't take themselves too seriously.  Because when they do that, they become distant from their audience, and lose the empathy that makes acting work.Of course, this begs the question - interesting to whom?We are talking about a new audience (even the old Next Gen fans have personally changed so much that we are, in effect, a different audience than we used to be).  We have seen DS9 and B5, and other shows that have far more story arc than Next Gen did.  To the audience of the 80s-90s, maybe that was the most interesting time in Picard's life.  To the possible viewers today, is the same necessarily true?  I am not sure.You don't want your media to take risks, then?  More of the same-old, same-old for you?Yes, well, when they launched TNG, they were imaging the galaxy almost a century farther than we'd seen at the time.  That was hard too.  But they did it just fine.</blockquote>

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