Someone else on here put it very well; at this episode's best it was perfect, but everywhere else it is borderline comically bad.
I thought about this episode and Picard as a whole while I was catching up on Discovery season 3. The primary issue with NuTrek isn't just Alex Kurtzman, though he is a symptom to the problem. It's that these shows really have no excuse to not be excellent.
Kurtzman and company have come up with some of the most fascinating narratives in all of Trek: the Burn, the 32nd century jump, the Mars attack, the captured Borg cube. It really should be prime television. Yet in the most basic of storytelling and world building they completely squander great concepts for flashy cinematography and endless cliche writing.
I'm not mad at Picard, truly I am overjoyed he is back and that it will continue into season 2. Plus every Trek fan knows S1s are NEVER any good. I am pretty disappointed though. Remembrance and Nepenthe were both outstanding, everything else just tanked in comparison.
I'm willing to give it one more chance and see where this Picard synth storyline goes. Again, endlessly fascinating but historically these storytellers have delivered little if anything.
I thought about this episode and Picard as a whole while I was catching up on Discovery season 3. The primary issue with NuTrek isn't just Alex Kurtzman, though he is a symptom to the problem. It's that these shows really have no excuse to not be excellent.
Kurtzman and company have come up with some of the most fascinating narratives in all of Trek: the Burn, the 32nd century jump, the Mars attack, the captured Borg cube. It really should be prime television. Yet in the most basic of storytelling and world building they completely squander great concepts for flashy cinematography and endless cliche writing.
I'm not mad at Picard, truly I am overjoyed he is back and that it will continue into season 2. Plus every Trek fan knows S1s are NEVER any good. I am pretty disappointed though. Remembrance and Nepenthe were both outstanding, everything else just tanked in comparison.
I'm willing to give it one more chance and see where this Picard synth storyline goes. Again, endlessly fascinating but historically these storytellers have delivered little if anything.