lizbee | Star Trek: Picard, season 2, eps 1-2 (Reply)

I started keeping a running list of notes for Antimatter Pod -- we're holding off on discussing Picard in-depth until Discovery wraps up BECAUSE SOMEONE AT PARAMOUNT THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SMART TO OVERSHADOW THE SERIES LED BY A WOMAN OF COLOUR no, I'm not getting into that rant, I'm just gonna say again that this overlap of shows was wholly unnecessary--

ANYWAY, I don't have the time to do proper posts, either here or at my blog, but here are some vague thoughts.

2.01 - "The Star Gazer"

has something been lost with everyone joining Starfleet? I liked the scrappy show about messy civilians and their eccentric grandpa
I am TOTALLY INTO Picard/Laris while also feeling like killing off Zhaban was cheap and unnecessary (all Chabon's posts about three-party Romulan marriages are RIGHT THERE, just let the man make his fan fiction canon)
and ALSO I do not need Picard and Beverly to ride off into the sunset together, I've been a multishipper for almost as long as I've been a Picard/Crusher shipper, BUT I do need them to acknowledge that there was a whole THING there and that it was always Beverly putting the brakes on a relationship
the MUTUAL PINING of Picard/Laris though
oh my gosh I love a second chance romance/older people in love
congratulations to Orla Brady on getting to be a weirdly young love interest at the age of 60
how many minutes do we think it took Admiral Janeway to adopt Raffi? Five? Ten if she's busy?
I love Seven and Jeri Ryan's performance is always outstanding, but I wish they'd remember that Seven is a scientist
Met Gala Kim Kardashian Borg Queen is a mouthful and also a cosplay goal
why is tiny Jean-Luc a 1930s news boy?
this series has the worst costuming of any new Trek, including the animated series
Seven did a reverse Tuvix on the Rios holograms and I respect that

2.02 - "Penance"

I'm not going to pretend I haven't spent some time considering the 2250s Confederation and, more to the point, wondering whose skull is decorating General Cornwell's study
then I realised it's absolutely L'Rell's, and I got a bit sad
ANYWAY
at first I was like, "This is great, but I think I liked it better when it was season 1 of Discovery."
but then I slept on it and decided that these two grimdark universes serve different purposes, and this is the brutalist counterpart to the Terran Empire's baroque nonsense
RIP Gul Dukat
and Sarek, but I'm mostly sad it wasn't General Michael decapitating him
do we think Philippa Georgiou and Gabrielle Burnham were married in this timeline? Because I can see it
OKAY FINE
I resent how Q is a bit sexy now
Seven of Nine knows the rules of waking up in another reality and Agnes absolutely does not, and this all makes perfect sense
all the Starfleets were pretty on the ball, too, I have to assume there's a class on this
General Janeway has the Diviner's head on a pike somewhere and is also fighting Picard for the title of Borgslayer
I feel this in my heart
I REALISE THAT IMPORTANT STUFF HAPPENED IN THIS EPISODE I JUST NEED TO ROLL AROUND IN THE AU A LITTLE LONGER
also Annie Wersching is great as the Borg Queen but the design choice to have her breasting boobily was ... questionable
I realise that she's the leader of a genocidal, xenophobic society, but President Annika Hansen has my support, slay queen, #girlboss, etc
her husband, not so much