And so, the multiple threads that have been flapping in the wind are starting to bind, creating quite an interesting tapestry of a story on Star Trek: Picard. In this, the eighth episode, titled “Broken Pieces,” the story of Soji, the synths, Mars, Zhat Vash, and even Captain Rios, gains much more clarity. For what […]
At long last, Project Blue Book put these two fantastic characters, these strong and capable women, back in the same room. And I couldn’t have been happier. Unfortunately, their coming together led to a lot of unfortunate outcomes and more than a little tragedy – physically and emotionally. In the waning moments of episode 208 […]
We’re now a third of the way through season 5 – with a book as big as The Fiery Cross, do you think we’ve gotten far enough into the story at this point? (For the record, if you go by book pages, we’ve gone just about a third of the way through it as well. […]
Man, there’s just something kind of magical seeing old faces re-emerge in new shows. Yes, they are playing the same characters we remember from ‘back in the day,’ but they are older, wiser, more grounded and like so many characters in Star Trek: Picard, carrying pain and sorrow with them. And so it was in […]
As it turned out, episode 207 of Project Blue Book was less about alien visits and more about the insidious nature of government experimentation. But there are mentions of aliens and ancient Native American curses and superstitions, which leads our two alien hunters on a fun adventure in Uintah, Utah. There, at the Chapman ranch, […]
Today’s review, boys and girls, will be mercifully short. I’m out of town, and helping my mom and dad. (This also means we will not do our usual Tuesday Outlander Gab on the Air radio show tomorrow night.) Was tonight’s episode the G.O.A.T. – Greatest of All Time – as Starz recently tweeted? While I […]
As Star Trek: Picard has ramped up, I’ve been very interested to see what would happen when Jean-Luc Picard made his inevitable way to the ‘artifact’ – the reclaimed Borg cube. In episode 106, titled “The Impossible Box,” that moment, at last, has arrived – and I enjoyed how it played out. Yes, yes, the […]
Wading through episode 206 of Project Blue Book a second and third time, I realized that my initial reactions to “Close Encounters” were spot on – I loved this episode. I suppose a large part of that is that it harkens back to my own youth and some of the things that helped nurture my […]
Well, that was different! In that – as much as I loved last week’s episode, I can’t say the same for much of this week’s. It was two completely different stories with no intersection, two completely different tones – not a surprise, I suppose, since it had two different writers (Luke Schelhaas and Toni Graphia). […]
If there’s one thing that’s clear to me after five episodes of Star Trek: Picard, it’s that all of those aboard the good (space) ship La Sirena have a healthy amount of pain and regret in their past that seem to be relevant to the hunt for Dr. Bruce Maddox, and by extension the life-saving […]
