whatelsecanwedonow:Star Trek: TNG S03E26 // Star Trek: Picard S01E07this absolutely kills me and not

whatelsecanwedonow:Star Trek: TNG S03E26 // Star Trek: Picard S01E07this absolutely kills me and not in the good way; this parallel (very rightly and astutely observed by OP and the structure of the gifset) at once highlights and belies the extreme difference between young deanna’s response to will and picard’s response to older deanna. in the first instance, what’s at issue is a question of age and experience, and in the second, a question of grief and trauma. will is having an experience of himself growing older; deanna is mourning the death of her child. in the first instance, young deanna suggests that while aging might feel like loss, and indeed entail real loss, it also comes with greater knowledge and refined judgement. it is a generous thing to say, because it acknowledges the scope of his experience. in the second instance, picard issues a platitude to tell older deanna to think of the death of her child as a learning experience. ‘you’re getting wiser’ is a brutal thing to say, standing in the bedroom of a dead child, to that child’s mother, about her grief for that child. absolutely fucking brutal. i have to believe this is a failure of empathy on the writers’ part, because i don’t see how we could be asked to accept either that jean-luc picard would say this, or that if he did we should forgive him for it. -- source link

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