And we should care why?The IMDB profile of Jane Maggs, the writer of this episode:
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x07 - "Monsters"
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Probably yet another "TALENTLESS WRITER, HAS NO REAL CREDITS, NO TREK EXPERIENCE, KURTZMAN HIRES THE WORST PEOPLE AND HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING, HE IS RUINING STAR TREK, WAH WAH WAH" line of argument. *yawn*
Char liked your post. I wonder if they failed to notice you were mocking them.
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First reaction is I don't feel all that great about this episode. It felt like an incoherent mess. The stuff with the Mother and Father should have resonated a lot more but it really didn't with me, and it ends with another arrest. Also, is the Renee plot done? His job was to make sure she wasn't hit by a car? I guess now it's about showing respect to Q, but then the Arrest happens and I just throw my hands up and be like, why?
With three episodes left in this season, where is it going?
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With three episodes left in this season, where is it going?
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I'm just watching on autopilot at this point. The story is just a mess and frankly it just proves more and more that season long arcs don't work for this show. Giving it a GENEROUS 5 this week, even Baltar didn't help make it better.
Having one direct call back Star Trek 4, either the punk on the bus or the "I just work it out in space line", would would be fine. Both is gratuitous.
The revelation that the Q and El-Aurians were at war adds a very different light to Q Who where the Borg are introduced. Q let the Fed meet the Borg early to be prepared for them. The Q Continuum knew about the Borg but presumably didn't give the same help or warning to the El-Aurians and let them get assimilated.
I'm waiting for the Borgified La Sirena to assimilate Teresa's kid.
I'm waiting for the Borgified La Sirena to assimilate Teresa's kid.
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Well, that was a whole lot of nothing that rambled off nowhere. Even though this is a season long arc, individual episodes still have to have some kind of actual payoff, and this was just flat. I feel like this is foreshadowing the same issues we saw with the back half of S1: janky pacing leading to a rushed finale overstuffed to the point that every pending resolution set up in the season gets shortchanged.
Ugh. Maybe I'll be in a more generous mood after I sleep on it, but, for me, this was the worst installment of modern Trek so far. I would sooner revisit Disco S1 than watch this episode again.
Ugh. Maybe I'll be in a more generous mood after I sleep on it, but, for me, this was the worst installment of modern Trek so far. I would sooner revisit Disco S1 than watch this episode again.
Well... the Rios stuff was fun. Even if the Voyage Home callback made me roll my eyes a little. Still, it was a distinct bright spot in the episode, and they're just kinda cute together, y'know?
Everything else was a piping hot mess.
Honestly, season 1 is better for me so far. There's a lot to like in this season, and I think episode 2 is straight-up the best episode of modern Trek, but since then half the cast has had nothing to do. Bleh, I miss Chabon. Not really liking Matalas so far.
Everything else was a piping hot mess.
Honestly, season 1 is better for me so far. There's a lot to like in this season, and I think episode 2 is straight-up the best episode of modern Trek, but since then half the cast has had nothing to do. Bleh, I miss Chabon. Not really liking Matalas so far.
Well-directed but kind of poorly written episode, in my opinion...
Ren Hanami returns as Director Lee on Episode 10, so I think the launch should happen then and so I predict we'll see Renée again.
Patrick Stewart made it clear in an interview that JC's father wasn't abusing his wife, making her having a mental illness the next obvious traumatic childhood scenario explaining the flashbacks. Episode 9 deals with Picard confronting his deepest secrets/fears again, so there is more to come. So what fear does Picard have to get over? Does he still fear the Borg, just like we saw when he stepped onto the Artifact last season when he was so scared he hallucinated?
Rios beaming Teresa and her kid onto La Sirena was the coolest part of the episode, I really hope things work out for them! Maybe he ends up being his own grandfather...
Ren Hanami returns as Director Lee on Episode 10, so I think the launch should happen then and so I predict we'll see Renée again.
Patrick Stewart made it clear in an interview that JC's father wasn't abusing his wife, making her having a mental illness the next obvious traumatic childhood scenario explaining the flashbacks. Episode 9 deals with Picard confronting his deepest secrets/fears again, so there is more to come. So what fear does Picard have to get over? Does he still fear the Borg, just like we saw when he stepped onto the Artifact last season when he was so scared he hallucinated?
Rios beaming Teresa and her kid onto La Sirena was the coolest part of the episode, I really hope things work out for them! Maybe he ends up being his own grandfather...
I can't judge this episode on future events though. Maybe on a rewatch it will be better but right now I'm just frustrated and bored. The promise of the first episode of the season is now completely gone and that's a bummer.
I wasn't expecting James Callis to be portraying Maurice. sad that Yvette suffered such a horrible fate.
Shalafts syndrome from maurice, irumodic syndrome probably from yvette. Picards genome is a mess. Bring in the soongs!