God I love Katie Porter. TBH, tho, her whiteboard skills are godlevel.

From the presidential motorcade, if my prayers are ever answered.

Hey. What the hell is that? I trained you to be a fighter, not a car!

Someone has to spend this delay writing up FF10 as the Fast & Furious/Transformers crossover no one’s asking for.

I was thinking 2Fast2Coronavirus

Movie Producer #1: “Okay, hear me out. In F10 Dominic and the gang fight a global pandemic... with their cars of course.”
Movie Producer #2: “We’ll call it ‘F10: Too SARS, Too Serious’”
Movie Producer #3: “We’ve just been greenlit with a $300 million budget.”

That’s too bad. From what I understand, in FF9 they get shrunk down to microscopic size and drive tiny import cars to steal mitochondrial rna from whatever-Charlize-Theron’s-character-name is.

Like it was listed as “Regular Coverage” for their What’s On Tonight thing, and like, they normally say when they’re dropping a show in the last review for it.

That seems to be what Picard was getting at when he was talking about having powerful tools to prevent the ancient civilisation’s warning from coming to pass.

It’s calling back to her conversation with Picard about regaining her humanity from a couple of episodes back.  Reinstating the collective on the cube is explicitly going against what she’s been fighting for “every damn day”

“Shut the fuck up”

Barring the rare moments when he was recovering from cyborg assimilation induced PTSD, processing a lifetime of experiences over the course of fifteen minutes, or holding together the collective shit of a emotionally senile Vulcan elder stateman, Picard is a pretty bottled up guy in TNG. He even laments this aloud in…

I’m really hoping that all the destroyer stuff is a red herring and that the alien device implants a telepathic command into the minds of people who view it, compelling them to destroy synths.

Yeah, I read the scene completely differently than Zack. I think Seven was afraid to reconnect to the collective, but for a different reason than it being “the worst nightmare of her life”—she said it herself: she was worried she wouldn’t want to disconnect from the collective. That is far more interesting than the…

I loved that whole conversation, and it highlights exactly why Picard is special and beloved as a character. 

I was hoping that as well for Picard. It seems to me that even Patrick Stewart is forgetting what character he’s playing, probably because he feels like he’s filming a broody X-Men and so wanders into Prof. X territory.

The Rios bit was pat and convenient, though given Raffi’s pursuit of this exact conspiracy possibly being how she crossed paths with him I can accept it, but otherwise I enjoyed the episode.

These reviews read like jaded-fan rants fantasizing about how they coulda done it better.

Okay now seriously I’m just gonna put this in every new TV review, where’s the Legends of Tomorrow write-up?

It’s shocking, but the shock doesn’t last as long as it would with a proper buildup.