Now that's rich!Hugo Drax did relocate an entire French chateau - brick-by-brick - to California. Complete with, if the movie's shooting location is to be believed, French hills.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x03 - "Assimilation"
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See that some Likes come to him.
See that some Likes come to him.
Ok, not really here nor there, but giving Past Tense 2-parter a rewatch right now. Let's see how 1995 felt about 2024. Well, Trek's 2024 not "ours" but I digress.
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I rather liked her portrayal.
I did a rewatch sometimes last year and found the computer screens (OS, etc) a bit jarring as it would have looked dated even 20 years ago....BTW Past Tense came out in January 1995.
1997 was a stab. Yeah, the computer terminals are certainly odd even for a 1995 guess for 30 years or so in the future.
And, oh man, Dick Miller!
Did someone leave the cake out in the rain?
Maybe Jim Bob Picard made an exact replica in California.
Maybe Los Angeles took over half the world, while the worlds was in no condition to stand up to them?
I 'm still talking about WWIII, but if enough bombs dropped on California, 50 million refugees are going to start moving to somewhere less radioactive. Which is true of almost everywhere, and there would be no "real" news about any true safe harbours. So all the refugee caravans would just meld and split as they crawled across the planet waiting for their Geiger Counters to calm down.
So what Picard calls 25th century Los Angeles could be "New Los Angeles" almost any where else in the world, even France.
Jesus, I need a drink.
Disney finally built WESCOT. The winery is part of the World Showcase's France exhibit.
L.A. is where the entertainment industry is largely located. It took over half the world long ago.
Industrial replicators can build complete buildings with electrics and plumbing in seconds. Which is very useful when building a colony, but it also means that most species specific colonies are identical from starting principles.
Today such a thing is called a "Copy Town" and they are everywhere.
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.co...py-towns-to-scale-replicas-of-western-cities/
That explains all the similar buildings on Earth/Federation Colonies.
"And much like the return of an unloved season, we thank you for your gracious support."
Interestingly enough, the opening trilogy has gone the same way the previous season did for me, with the third installment noticeably weaker than the previous two. Of course, it was still a thrill to watch through, complete with patented California wildfires! As morbid as the thought is, they kind of reminded me of the establishing shot of LA from Naked Gun 33 1/3, with the Academy Awards ceremony going on right in the middle of a riot and half the city on fire. Also, damn, these establishing shots give me a new appreciation for how well Rockstar Games translated modern LA's vibes for GTA's Los Santos. The sunsine, the oppressive heat, and the omnipresent juxtaposition of opulence with squalor and decay... as a foreigner, I couldn't find a better way to describe LA if I tried, and they were all there in this episode.
Elnor, no... I kept thinking he'll be unceremoniously healed with nanoprobes or something, but the fact that he stayed dead somehow didn't have much of an emotional impact with me. Even though Jurati is perfectly right when she says it's impossible to determine if his death would be averted, not to mention Raffi's stubborn determination to start working in an apparent effort to suppress the feeling of having failed as a (surrogate) mother once again, I think it's a foregone conclusion he'll be alive and well in the 25th century when this all ends.
Her verbal attack on Picard was also perfectly believable and understandable, coming from this maternal position. Picard could've chosen to launch into a lengthy explanation into how there's just no reasoning with a being that is capable of changing the gravitational constant or erasing galaxies on a whim, but it wouldn't have helped him much in the situation. Along the same lines, his immediate rejection of Jurati's plan was also perfectly in character for him, and it visibly triggered the traumatic memories of his own assimilation.
I was surprised that this crazy plan seemingly went off without a hitch and she even managed to play the Borg Queen like a fiddle, which managed to impress her. With Janeway, Picard and Seven, she's definitely in illustrious company. Not gonna lie, at first I was worried they'll end up with a reveal of the Queen being in her body and her doing a Lonely Among Us in the computer banks, and despite no apparent harm done, I can't help but think it wasn't as clean as we were led to believe. Still, hearing her trolling "dictate the file logged 'shit I stole from the Borg Queen'" was worth every minute of worry. Alison Pill is easily my favorite this season, and of course Annie Wersching's Queen is truly a sight to behold as well, truly menacing and chilling with that calm, sinister, oily smugness she always projects. I hope for a lot of strong scenes from these two going forward, even if we're possibly headed towards Jurati being assimilated and becoming the Masked Queen from the premiere.
As for Rios, I greatly enjoyed watching his ordeals at the clinic, even though they were basically just an opportunity to see him being his laidback, personable, snarky self. This quality of his let him play the role of a 21st century illegal immigrant remarkably well, even though he quickly became overconfident in his ability to bullshit through everything, which led to him immediately being sniffed out by the authorities. I wonder who the next person to get their hands on his combadge will be, though. Let's hope it's not Henry Starling, Jr. or something. Still, I think we're slowly getting enough information to make a ranking of bullshitting capabilities, with Rios at the top (improvising well enough that Teresa seemingly never suspected he was anything other than a random guy from Chile), Raffi at the second (quickly correcting Seven's way-too-formal language and playing it off as a personality quirk), Seven at third place (as she didn't even bother not acting like herself last week which caused her hubby to eventually realize she was an impostor), and Jurati coming in dead last (like Seven, not bothering, but also too anxious not to draw immediate attention on herself). Maybe time will tell where Picard falls on it... I mean, on the one hand we have Gambit, but on the other hand we have Stardust City Rag, he could basically be anywhere on this spectrum.
Elnor, no... I kept thinking he'll be unceremoniously healed with nanoprobes or something, but the fact that he stayed dead somehow didn't have much of an emotional impact with me. Even though Jurati is perfectly right when she says it's impossible to determine if his death would be averted, not to mention Raffi's stubborn determination to start working in an apparent effort to suppress the feeling of having failed as a (surrogate) mother once again, I think it's a foregone conclusion he'll be alive and well in the 25th century when this all ends.
Her verbal attack on Picard was also perfectly believable and understandable, coming from this maternal position. Picard could've chosen to launch into a lengthy explanation into how there's just no reasoning with a being that is capable of changing the gravitational constant or erasing galaxies on a whim, but it wouldn't have helped him much in the situation. Along the same lines, his immediate rejection of Jurati's plan was also perfectly in character for him, and it visibly triggered the traumatic memories of his own assimilation.
I was surprised that this crazy plan seemingly went off without a hitch and she even managed to play the Borg Queen like a fiddle, which managed to impress her. With Janeway, Picard and Seven, she's definitely in illustrious company. Not gonna lie, at first I was worried they'll end up with a reveal of the Queen being in her body and her doing a Lonely Among Us in the computer banks, and despite no apparent harm done, I can't help but think it wasn't as clean as we were led to believe. Still, hearing her trolling "dictate the file logged 'shit I stole from the Borg Queen'" was worth every minute of worry. Alison Pill is easily my favorite this season, and of course Annie Wersching's Queen is truly a sight to behold as well, truly menacing and chilling with that calm, sinister, oily smugness she always projects. I hope for a lot of strong scenes from these two going forward, even if we're possibly headed towards Jurati being assimilated and becoming the Masked Queen from the premiere.
As for Rios, I greatly enjoyed watching his ordeals at the clinic, even though they were basically just an opportunity to see him being his laidback, personable, snarky self. This quality of his let him play the role of a 21st century illegal immigrant remarkably well, even though he quickly became overconfident in his ability to bullshit through everything, which led to him immediately being sniffed out by the authorities. I wonder who the next person to get their hands on his combadge will be, though. Let's hope it's not Henry Starling, Jr. or something. Still, I think we're slowly getting enough information to make a ranking of bullshitting capabilities, with Rios at the top (improvising well enough that Teresa seemingly never suspected he was anything other than a random guy from Chile), Raffi at the second (quickly correcting Seven's way-too-formal language and playing it off as a personality quirk), Seven at third place (as she didn't even bother not acting like herself last week which caused her hubby to eventually realize she was an impostor), and Jurati coming in dead last (like Seven, not bothering, but also too anxious not to draw immediate attention on herself). Maybe time will tell where Picard falls on it... I mean, on the one hand we have Gambit, but on the other hand we have Stardust City Rag, he could basically be anywhere on this spectrum.
Well, JL played general Picard perfectly.
Maybe Q will snap his fingers, or the Borg Queen, or a Borg-infected Jurati could use nano-probes to resuscitate Elnor?