I really liked it!
I'm still a little bit emotionally confused, because I hated last episode's gore so much, it kinda' soured me on the whole series for the week. But now, I'm reminded how I liked every single episode so far (except last week's) immensely, and so do I like this one.
To this episode:
The main plot finally got going. And it's going well. I'm immensely intruiged where it will lead us. No idea how it will end, but for now, I'm hooked. This episode had some weaker parts - some beats didn't land as good as they could. But others were just delightfull highlights. I loved the re-uniion scene between Picard and Hugh, basically every character-moment Picard had with the Borg. Also I'm way more invested in Soji and Nareks' story than apparently the majority of viewers here (or on other review sides). I just enjoy a simple, complicated spy/A.I.-love story with murder involved. And I just love the little moments, like the Romulans having a meditation-room on a Borg cube.
I do think this series is making the Borg more "normal" and less menacing than even VOY ever did. But I never had a problem with that on VOY either - you can never have an enemy be "undefeatable" for ever, and I like how they turned the whole Borg thing upside down. Though I'm a bit sad the inside of the Borg cube lost it's scary-ness from VOY (but looked more like on TNG).
I love how the inter-planetary beaming was handled - based on a previous episode of VOY, still well wihin limitations (can't be easily reverse-engineered by Romulans/Starfleet and make Starships obsolete, and it has some serious limitations in range), and also does a nice little ret-con, how the Borg queen could have survived previously being blowed up a few times (First Contact, twice on VOY, and implied she was on the cube in TNG's "Best of both worlds" with Locutus as well). Well done.
9/10
I'm still a little bit emotionally confused, because I hated last episode's gore so much, it kinda' soured me on the whole series for the week. But now, I'm reminded how I liked every single episode so far (except last week's) immensely, and so do I like this one.
To this episode:
The main plot finally got going. And it's going well. I'm immensely intruiged where it will lead us. No idea how it will end, but for now, I'm hooked. This episode had some weaker parts - some beats didn't land as good as they could. But others were just delightfull highlights. I loved the re-uniion scene between Picard and Hugh, basically every character-moment Picard had with the Borg. Also I'm way more invested in Soji and Nareks' story than apparently the majority of viewers here (or on other review sides). I just enjoy a simple, complicated spy/A.I.-love story with murder involved. And I just love the little moments, like the Romulans having a meditation-room on a Borg cube.
I do think this series is making the Borg more "normal" and less menacing than even VOY ever did. But I never had a problem with that on VOY either - you can never have an enemy be "undefeatable" for ever, and I like how they turned the whole Borg thing upside down. Though I'm a bit sad the inside of the Borg cube lost it's scary-ness from VOY (but looked more like on TNG).
I love how the inter-planetary beaming was handled - based on a previous episode of VOY, still well wihin limitations (can't be easily reverse-engineered by Romulans/Starfleet and make Starships obsolete, and it has some serious limitations in range), and also does a nice little ret-con, how the Borg queen could have survived previously being blowed up a few times (First Contact, twice on VOY, and implied she was on the cube in TNG's "Best of both worlds" with Locutus as well). Well done.
9/10
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