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This is the first Saturday since the Crisis on Earth-Prime began where I feel that I actually accomplished stuff.
And somewhere in between all this I watched The Andromeda Strain.
Overall I think this has been a rough time for everyone. Like everyone I seem to have good days and bad days. But I think I’ve learned how to mitigate the days.
And I saw something that was quoted by a couple of folks today:
You are not working from home. You are at home, in a crisis, trying to work.
Which is correct for me for 4 days out of the week. That fifth day in the office is working at work in a crisis. Which surprisingly is relaxing. It’s as close to ‘normal’ that I think I’ll ever see in the near future, despite the lack of coworkers and traffic and places to eat for lunch.
Hang in there, everyone. We’re in this together, for as long as it takes.
I swear, if they don’t start moving the Borg artifact story line forward, I’m gonna have to shoot someone. With a phaser. Set to wide-angle mangle.
Still crushing on Isa Briones, though.
Seriously, this show has gone from ‘wow, what a great pilot episode!’ to ‘WTF are they doing with the sliding barefoot on the Borg cube?’
And how many episodes until Picard gets his crew together? Are we done? Are we going to see a French or Italian or Russian hologram aboard the La Sirena soon?
And what’s up with the pseudo-incestuous Romulan couple?
Dr. Jurati is bordering on Tilly-level annoyance.
All that said, it’s still intriguing enough to pull me back every week. So far.
I’m just concerned that they may not stick the landing when the series ends.
I liked it. A lot.
I daresay that, IMHO, it’s the best TV Star Trek series since The Next Generation.
It’s no secret that I was never a huge fan of any series that followed TNG. I thought Deep Space Nine was okay, Voyager was meh, and Enterprise was simply bad TV, except for the Mirror Universe episodes.
Discovery, like Enterprise, was bad TV.
Picard felt like TNG had morphed into something else, as a result of the movies, which technically it had. It even referenced the Romulan supernova event from the 2009 film.
After one episode, it just feels right to me. There was enough backstory to bring us up to speed with the state of the universe and how Picard relates to it. There are some very intriguing characters, and that ending was a surprise, for a first episode. But not TOO much of a surprise, all things considered.
I recommend it, but be aware of my personal Star Trek tastes.
“Tea, Earl Grey, decaf.”
The fallen Jedi didn’t communicate with Rey at the beginning of The Rise of Skywalker because they all knew that she was a Palpatine. They were not sure if she could be ‘trusted’.
Once they saw her save Ben and fight off the Emperor’s minions, they deemed her worthy of their help.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
Part one was really good.
Part two was not.
Continue reading “Random Review: Doctor Who, Spyfall Parts 1 & 2”
Things kinda went quiet around here between the halfway point of The Mandalorian Season 1 and the premiere of The Rise of Skywalker.
Hmph.
I thoroughly enjoyed both, but felt that The Mandalorian stuck the landing for it’s first season and was better than The Rise of Skywalker.
Heck, it was better than the Sequel AND Prequel trilogies, IMHO.
In fact, The Mandalorian ranks up in my top 5 Star Wars entities, in no particular order:
The Thrawn Trilogy, Dark Empire, Kenner’s Millennium Falcon playset, my Millennium Falcon keychain and Brian Daley’s Han Solo Trilogy are the next 5 in my list of favorites.
Funny how there’s only two movies in all of Star Wars on my top favorites list.
I’ll still watch them all whenever they play on TV, though.
On the night of the Rise of Skywalker premiere/Fan Event, after the credits stopped and the lights came back on, my niece Chloe suddenly exclaimed,
“OH MY GOD! THAT WAS SOOOOOOOO GOOD!”
Which for me, capped off two weeks of rediscovery and appreciation. Continue reading “Appreciation”
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