Coffee has so many varieties it's impossible to say one just likes coffee.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x02 - "Penance"
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(Edited for spelling & grammar) I didn't have the time to read through all of this over the last week as I'm catching up on the series and I really should've gone to bed about three hours ago, so apologies in advance if any of these were already touched upon last week, but here it goes.
I loved Q's return; de Lancie and Stewart picked up right where they had left off 30 years ago, and it really brought me back. I've loved to see them interact once again. Even if Q was acting strangely, being agitated and unhinged, he was still the good old Q we knew and I was so happy to see him once again as a real threat as opposed to the recurring comic relief Voyager degraded him to... this series seems to have rehabilitated the Borg the same way after Voyager did a number on them as well. Ironic, huh? My only gripe is that Seven didn't get to show her familiarity with Q, but it wasn't a requirement for the plot anyway.
I was glad they didn't spend too much time setting up the alternate timeline other than the places of the main cast in it; while a lot of people would say the details don't matter because it's yet another disposable dystopian timeline, I rather considered them irrelevant because ultimately the point of this whole universe is, as Q has put it, that it serves as Picard's personal hell. He has specifically changed history in a way that would trigger Picard in a specific way we'll learn later in the season, and that's good enough for me. I'm glad we've seen a refreshing departure from the age-old formula of the cast spending a good half an hour trying to figure out what's going on while being forced to play their roles and instead immediately set out to get information and reach out to the others. I didn't mind the lucky coincidence that Picard, Seven and Jurati would meet at the ceremony and Raffi being the one to capture Elnor, with only Rios's recall being done by our Seven, because Q did imply these circumstances were his doing in the first place.
Seven the Very Awesome truly shined from the moment she woke up in an unfamiliar place. My apologies for any mental health professionals in the audience if this is a real-world technique, but the way she confirmed she wasn't dreaming by testing out her cognitive functions and senses as if they were different subsystems was so very Seven of her. I also loved how she immediately attempted to contact Rios once she has confirmed he was alive just in case they were brought here together. Now that the story made her face a more complex problem than the straightforward revenge on Bjayzl, she's begun to shine once more.
Jurati was extremely huggable in the entire episode (uuuuh... meow?). She was completely out of her element and immediately gave herself away, seemingly having no idea how to play along with Seven's deception, and I've just found it so damn relatable, and actually refreshing after all the times we've seen all kinds of characters just successfully bumbling they way through this kind of situation until an out-of-place comment or action gives them away... I imagine I would've acted the same way in her place. She was lucky she wasn't in a situation where the people around her would suspect she was an impostor. And the Borg Queen even imprints on her instantly and starts to taunt her about her sense of unbelonging which makes me kind of nervous that she'll be assimilated later this season. Just like DS9 had O'Brien must suffer, Picard will have its once-a-season Jurati Must Be Mind-Controlled? Oh yeah, we have aHulk Borg Queen. Awesome, I'll say.
One nitpick though:
Title says: Okinawa
Shown on screen: Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, with a very recognizable The Center being bombed by Romulan insurgents. Great job, FX guys.
I loved Q's return; de Lancie and Stewart picked up right where they had left off 30 years ago, and it really brought me back. I've loved to see them interact once again. Even if Q was acting strangely, being agitated and unhinged, he was still the good old Q we knew and I was so happy to see him once again as a real threat as opposed to the recurring comic relief Voyager degraded him to... this series seems to have rehabilitated the Borg the same way after Voyager did a number on them as well. Ironic, huh? My only gripe is that Seven didn't get to show her familiarity with Q, but it wasn't a requirement for the plot anyway.
I was glad they didn't spend too much time setting up the alternate timeline other than the places of the main cast in it; while a lot of people would say the details don't matter because it's yet another disposable dystopian timeline, I rather considered them irrelevant because ultimately the point of this whole universe is, as Q has put it, that it serves as Picard's personal hell. He has specifically changed history in a way that would trigger Picard in a specific way we'll learn later in the season, and that's good enough for me. I'm glad we've seen a refreshing departure from the age-old formula of the cast spending a good half an hour trying to figure out what's going on while being forced to play their roles and instead immediately set out to get information and reach out to the others. I didn't mind the lucky coincidence that Picard, Seven and Jurati would meet at the ceremony and Raffi being the one to capture Elnor, with only Rios's recall being done by our Seven, because Q did imply these circumstances were his doing in the first place.
Seven the Very Awesome truly shined from the moment she woke up in an unfamiliar place. My apologies for any mental health professionals in the audience if this is a real-world technique, but the way she confirmed she wasn't dreaming by testing out her cognitive functions and senses as if they were different subsystems was so very Seven of her. I also loved how she immediately attempted to contact Rios once she has confirmed he was alive just in case they were brought here together. Now that the story made her face a more complex problem than the straightforward revenge on Bjayzl, she's begun to shine once more.
Jurati was extremely huggable in the entire episode (uuuuh... meow?). She was completely out of her element and immediately gave herself away, seemingly having no idea how to play along with Seven's deception, and I've just found it so damn relatable, and actually refreshing after all the times we've seen all kinds of characters just successfully bumbling they way through this kind of situation until an out-of-place comment or action gives them away... I imagine I would've acted the same way in her place. She was lucky she wasn't in a situation where the people around her would suspect she was an impostor. And the Borg Queen even imprints on her instantly and starts to taunt her about her sense of unbelonging which makes me kind of nervous that she'll be assimilated later this season. Just like DS9 had O'Brien must suffer, Picard will have its once-a-season Jurati Must Be Mind-Controlled? Oh yeah, we have a
One nitpick though:
Title says: Okinawa
Shown on screen: Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, with a very recognizable The Center being bombed by Romulan insurgents. Great job, FX guys.
"Annika Seven Shots"
Nice save, Agnes!
IMHC:
***Seven shoots the Magistrate***
M: "I'm your husband!"
Seven: "Consider this a divorce."
#TotalRecall
ETA: Raffi is supposed to be former Special Forces. I'm glad she finally got a chance to ACT like it!
Nice save, Agnes!
IMHC:
***Seven shoots the Magistrate***
M: "I'm your husband!"
Seven: "Consider this a divorce."
#TotalRecall
ETA: Raffi is supposed to be former Special Forces. I'm glad she finally got a chance to ACT like it!
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I don't exactly know why, but my favorite line from the whole episode is Q's description of alternate Earth as a corpse kept on life support after humanity failed to save the planet they were murdering... it really struck a chord with me, and I'm kind of sad it was "wasted" on a throwaway dystopian alternate universe. I've felt it to be such a powerful line, I could basically see it as a tagline or a quote in a trailer for a series/season/episode that a 100% focuses on environmental themes. Even friends of mine who don't watch the series agreed it was a great and really descriptive metaphor.
Actually, there are only 4 variant coffee beans.
https://www.cafedirect.co.uk/shop/coffee-bean-types-and-their-characteristics/
All the variations come from differing levels of roasting, and/or blending them.
I am a little miffed Picard thumbed his palate at one of the highest regarded, and my personal favorite, coffee bean.
Truth be told, Picard, I cannot stand Earl Grey! 
lol
Well, now I know.Actually, there are only 4 variant coffee beans.
https://www.cafedirect.co.uk/shop/coffee-bean-types-and-their-characteristics/
All the variations come from differing levels of roasting, and/or blending them.
I am a little miffed Picard thumbed his palate at one of the highest regarded, and my personal favorite, coffee bean.
And knowing only makes it more confusing.
Well, that explains why the entire back-of-DVD-package blurb talks about nothing but Picard and friends getting thrown back to 2024. If anything, this is an even darker mirror than the one that first appeared in TOS.
Interesting use of Disney Hall as the Presidential Palace. And the "private observation deck of tall building" in "Assimilation" looks suspiciously like a windowed alcove I saw at Disney Hall. Then again, it also looks like an observation tower I visited in (if I remember right) Winnipeg.
I wonder what the focal point in time is. Let me guess: the speciesist "Confederation" timeline is what happens if Trump gets reelected in 2024. ---- nah: certainly plausible enough, but CBS/Paramount doesn't have the balls for it.
Interesting use of Disney Hall as the Presidential Palace. And the "private observation deck of tall building" in "Assimilation" looks suspiciously like a windowed alcove I saw at Disney Hall. Then again, it also looks like an observation tower I visited in (if I remember right) Winnipeg.
I wonder what the focal point in time is. Let me guess: the speciesist "Confederation" timeline is what happens if Trump gets reelected in 2024. ---- nah: certainly plausible enough, but CBS/Paramount doesn't have the balls for it.
Star Trek is also an alternate timeline from us.
Though that didn't stop Enterprise from showing Bush Jr. and 9/11 in one of the Time Stream scenes.
I've long theorized that the more familiar MU was one in which "Requiem for a Martian" was a real episode, rather than an infamous hoax.
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