I find the new season of Picard entirely reductive. I’m going to spoil it for you so, if you don’t want that then don’t scroll….
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That ought to be enough space. Okay, this season of Picard is an incredible trip down memory lane of every single ounce of Trek lore. There are so many name drops and Easter Eggs that I could not keep up. What screws up is, well, season 2. At the end of season 2 we see a newly evolved borg presence that has merged with Dr. Jurati. This borg is from an alternate timeline than the original borg queen, which makes the reveal of the big bad of season 3 as the orginal borg work… from a story perspective. Only, you already JUST did that. So here we are retreading old ground when we could’ve gone so many other places with this story. Instead, we get more Borg, better evolved borg, and, well, that’s it.
Some Thoughts:
- I’m being negative, I know. I think it comes from a conversation I recently had with my partner about watching bad TV. She often makes me rethink my choices and this is one example of how my choices impact her. If I watch bad TV, so does she. Therefore, I save some (most) of my crap for when she is gone.