Sorry it took so long for me to get to this. I've been pretty busy lately. Also, I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about this episode.
Good stuff:
Alison Pill. So much to compliment. First of all, she is rocking that red dress. Second, girl can sing. Thirdly, Pill and Wersching continue to have great chemistry as Jurati and the Borg Queen. Still not sure why Jurati's assimilation is so much different than any other seen before, though. Maybe the creation of a new Borg Queen is very different from the creation of a drone? ("Royal jelly" nanoprobes?)
The conversation between the Picards. Jean-Luc's pep talk to Renee was very heartfelt.
And then there's everything else:
Seven of Nine is (almost) comically underused here, and this season in general. You'd think she'd have more interaction with the Borg Queen, but nope. And Seven has met Q before too, but no mention of that either.
Raffi is continuing to hallucinate Elnor... and not much else.
Rios comes up with the idea to take Picard to Teresa's clinic... and not much else.
Adam Soong goes from being a sympathetic father terrifed of losing his daughter... to a mad scientist willing to kill people to finish his eugenics experiment. Boo.
We only have four more episodes this season, and practically nothing has been answered. It's like the Picard writers took people saying that Season 1's pacing couldn't be worse as a challenge.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I want to know when & what made Q go from a Loki-esque imp who actually did consider Picard a friend of sorts to being bitchslappy-murdery. Also, it seems every male Soong ever is a rancid piece of shit–except Data. Is that why he didn't get emotions? Because emotions lead to Soong men being absolute shitgoblins? This is like The Simpsons, where the women are smart & caring and the men are emotional morons.
Also, are we not gonna talk about Pat fucking Benatar?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I like Pat Benatar.
OK, Alison Pill can sing. What she can’t do is mime. On a scale of one to All About Eve doing “Martha’s Harbour” on Top Of The Pops in 1988, she’s… I can’t decide.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: I want to know when & what made Q go from a Loki-esque imp who actually did consider Picard a friend of sorts to being bitchslappy-murdery.
That's what I was saying a couple weeks ago. Q always fucked with Picard, but for reasons. Ultimately to teach him a lesson. It would make sense to send Jean-Luc to 2024 to stop bizarro world and learn something, but Q is trying to make it happen.
Maybe this has something to do with Picard noting that Q didn't look well right before he Will Smith slapped his ass.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: I like Pat Benatar.
I like Pat Benatar, too, but it was such a goofy cheesy choice. "Rehab" would've been funnier.
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
The 21st century is getting rather stale.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I mean, I've been saying that since the 20th century.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
