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So, let’s get into it: what happened with Marvel? Let’s start with some obligatory table-setting: following Phase Three (and, specifically, Avengers: Endgame) would have been a monumental creative challenge for any studio, product line, or storyteller; take your pick for…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
“Something in my head seemed to just… go away. Like a child’s sandcastle collapsing.” So: what was Picard — season one anyway — about? Let’s start with logistics. Patrick Stewart is roughly 79 when Star Trek: Picard films its first…
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The wizards of speed and time
I. VCR My weird friend Miller got into swap meets and Marie Kondo last year, after moving to the Goo, which I guess is a thing that happens when you move to the Goo. I don’t trade much in swap…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard: Canada Day Special — “Children of Mars”
“We could be heroes… just for one day.” I knew I forgot something! There’s a prequel to Star Trek: Picard, which also serves as the last episode of the two mini-seasons of Star Trek: Short Treks. I used to do…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1”
“It must have taken appalling brutality to turn such a gentle soul to violence.” After the season-high, one-two punch of “Nepenthe” and “Broken Pieces,” I cruised into Star Trek: Picard‘s two-part season finale more bullish on the show than I’d…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Broken Pieces”
“The future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools!” “Nepenthe” was my favourite episode of season one of Star Trek: Picard and remains the odds-on favourite to keep the crown for the whole series; but, when…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Nepenthe”
“Oh, MAN!” After a furious week or so of writing and scheduling posts for this rebooted Blogging the Next Generation, I took about a month off between “The Impossible Box” and today’s entry. I recall something similar happening when the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Impossible Box”
“That’s not my name.” In “The Impossible Box,” we arrive at what I’ve elsewhere described as ur-text of any modern Picard story: the now-seemingly-inevitable narrative debt to Locutus of Borg. “The Best of Both Worlds” gets trotted out for the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Stardust City Rag”
“What the hell are you doing out here, Picard?” Since Seven of Nine pops up at the end of the previous episode and now joins the cast of Star Trek: Picard (first irregularly, then permanently), some background context on my…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Absolute Candor”
“A promise is a prison, Elnor. Do not make yourself another’s jailer.” Look: I like Elnor. I like him a lot! Giving Picard his own personal bodyguard Elf is nuts, but the Qowat Milat (Romulan ninja-Elves who only speak the…