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What’s with all the “awwwww” piped-in audience noise? So sappy and dumb. The Connors is starting to sound like a Disney Channel kids show. Also? Can we stop with baby talk? Don’t care, and the last thing these people need is another baby. Move on.

Yes, but also, she seems to have been told that something will happen in the future that has to be stopped, and as a result killed her friend. So whatever she has been told must be horrible. And I would guess is a lie, and she is being duped as well, probably by Oh/Tal Shiar. I was not feeling the Picard humor and the heist giggles. This show needs to decide on its tone. You can get away with a quip like Elnor noting he didn't get an ad as they approach Freecloud. That was a chuckle. Having PS ham it up as some kind of theatrical villain was way too much. At first I didn't care for the California-girl talking Seven of Nine. Too different from what we saw on Voyager. But after a while it grew on me, and I could see that perhaps she reverts more to Annika and who she was as time goes on. I *did* love her going back down to shoot the bad guy and hide it from Picard. Yes. Like others, I was looking closely to see if that was somehow her at first. Not intentional, I guess.

I watched the entire opening and didn’t realize it was a repeat until the show announced Eddie Murphy. That’s how repetitive and bland these political cold openings have become, at least for me.

If they have dropped the motherhood story line, hallelujah! That was such a drag on the show.

I have a vague recollection that Mitch is afraid of pigeons and thinks they are germ filled and disgusting. I may be giving this show too much credit though.

As someone who has been to Paris multiple times, with each trip ranging somewhere from annoying to horrid, this ep fit perfectly. Really, Claire, hanging with an old lover and your husband? A plot about hiding a lie from Jay? Cam not being aware of the origin of his clown persona, this the same guy who remembers every slight real and imagined? Mitch needing to look French? I had to start this ep 3 times before I could finish it. Why can’t they get to the family lessons on paths that are enjoyable? Ugh.

Spectacularly unfunny. And what the hell happened to Bieber? He looks like a 40yo bad guy from a 70s cop show.

Soooo slow, and too cutesy by far. Also, Patrick Stewart’s line reading seemed very mistimed... almost like a slight delay between when he was supposed to speak and when he did. Also, the Romulans on Vashti, and their warrior women, sound a lot like some women I remember in Dune. I have loved ST for 50-plus years, and am an admirer of SPS, but I am not digging this show.

It's possible. But at the pace this show moves, it would be years before we would see the con come to fruition! At first I thought the show was going to give us a weakened, out-of-practice Picard and then, through circumstances around him, show him "getting back into shape" and turning into the Picard we knew, though of course older. But he has behaved so badly at every turn that I'm not sure that's the plan. It might just be that he is an old geezer with little discretion.

I don't think I care for this Picard. He: - "Fights" like an older man, after cowering at first. - It takes him 14 YEARS to decide he never was actually happy at the chateau. - He can't control his own outburst on TV when asked why he left Starfleet, minutes after asking for and being assured that he wouldn't be ask about it (so why answer when he was?). - THEN he blows up at the admiral while asking for a favor, no less, AND tells her what he plans to do; and finally, - He allows someone to call him "JL." I get that he is older and make allowances for that. But this Picard doesn't seem to be strategic, doesn't seem to be calculating, doesn't seem to have a command presence and doesn't have much left physically. He actually is just blundering ahead, telling everyone he meets, everything.

So another in what is becoming an endless series of “why?” questions on this show: Why was Raffi fired because JL wanted to save Romulans and resigned? Even if she was on his side, she didn’t do anything. Unless later she insisted a high-ranking federation officer allowed the attack on Mars. Which, if so, and she was canned, why would she blame Picard? Man, it is taking forever to get JL off planet. Oh boy, another beardy McBeard, this one Han Solo. All bearded characters are by definition annoying. He and his various EMH’s were not interesting. What... he isn’t taking Number One? I think it’s sad it took JL 14 years to figure out he never felt truly at home at his family chateau. Though I hope JL never had any small kids over. Lots of guns to find under tables. i guess this is a slow build to show an out of shape mentally and both physically Picard taking steps to return to what he once was. But I don’t like my Picard cowering. Just waiting for the Borg to come on line. Mau’dib the Destroyer! I wanted to throw something at the TV when creepy Romulan McBeardy said he was falling in love with Soji. This blonde woman Agnes is remarkably like the redhead on Discovery. What’s her name? Tish? Tilly? Note: Use of "JL" here cynical and mocking. Ugh.

This show has the uncanny ability to make me ask questions in one ep about things that don't make sense, that are then answered in the next ep by the characters (so for a week I wonder why no one on the show has asked them). This time I was wondering why a Romulan is in Starfleet, and why Federation scientists/citizens are openly working with Romulans (in charge?) on a Borg cube. But I guess that admiral is assumed to be Vulcan? Sad to say, but Picard's actions through two eps do indeed seem like those of a cantankerous old man who wants attention. He's not making me feel like he is able to save anything. I already can't stand beardy McScientist on the cube, just as much as I couldn't stand beardyBadGuy on Disco. I guess I'm an anti-beardite, because I find both characters insufferably smug and not at all attractive. And we are to assume he is the director of the Borg project, from his odd 'no I don't need permission" comment? I did love what they did with the Borg. I always thought Borg were too sanitized in the TV show and movies, given that are living people with mechanical appendages inserted into them. Liked this reality more. Pretty slow overall, though.

Thanks. I understood that was the premise, I didn’t understand the premise. Who cares what a delivery person thinks about your order? You could be saving some for the next day because you work and don’t like to cook, for all they know. On any case, who pays attention to the delivery person’s perspective?

Wow, I was not feeling this one. JJ was fine, the material was uninteresting. Aside from Che’s comment about how this is the perfect way to start Black History Month, and the football helmets with Olay on them, I didn’t crack a smile. And that country music makes me want to hurl. Johnny Cash or nothing. EDIT: Just saw the voiceover skit, OK, that was funny. “This other team is good!” I didn’t understand “Food Dudes.”

A lot of the humor around Adam Driver in this ep seemed to be based on him being intense, which never works for me because he seems like a NY hipster doofus. He is the worst villain ever in SW, I laugh every time Kylo Ren throws a hissy fit. It’s like the Radio Shack nerd getting mad. Some great zingers in the cold open. It’s nice to get away from Trump on the screen. I FF’d through both the girls and the sanitary pad and the Del Taco skits because repetition in skits annoys me. Keep it moving, I don’t laugh at people saying the same thing over and over. Undercover Boss was fun. Though I laughed at Randy like I do Kylo Ren. Halsey did a nice job. Not sure her music is my thing but I appreciate her artistry. ”Practicing Removing crazy dictators around the world for 100 years.” Wow. That was good. Aidy’s 7th grader seemed oddly low key. I wish everyone would just ignore Mr Peanut and the agency who is patting itself on the back for all the free publicity. The cheer skit was as annoying as the actual “sport.” Though putting “prayer on it” was funny. And the ketchup bottle skit was a nod toward past SNL skits that were goofy and poignant and fun at the same time. Liked it.

That what I mean by matches. I mean, he’s 90 percent there and he has to see the face? Versus figure out who the kill squad is? Without the paintings, he knows the girl is a synth and is likely connected to Data. It seems in the scale of important things, seeing that her face appears in a painting wasn’t up there. Also, I could argue that the painting also looked like Princess Leia, so.... a match is useful I guess?

Some odd choices in episode one, maybe on purpose, maybe by accident. - Confronted with a kill squad of (Romulans, I guess?) who knocked off at least two people, instead of pursuing who they were and why, Picard ... rushes to the archives .... to see a painting that matches one he already has. - The on-camera admission to why Picard left Star Fleet was too pat, coming after his Romulan handlers told him that the interviewer promised multiple times not to ask about it. Picard should have ended the interview right there, or they should have shown him being slowly guided to a "you can't handle the truth!" moment. They did neither, and I just kept wondering, "Why are you answering this question now?" Those that run Starfleet won't be eager to aid him after being publicly criticized. - Same for Picard's Excalibur-like sudden realization that he has been hiding away on the sidelines for years when he could have been doing good, or at least something. Too rushed, not enough reason shown for him to have arrived here, and it minimized the impact. - I'm not sure why Picard had such an immediate affinity for Dahj. Here is a man who had isolated himself for years, who sees a sudden intruder and knows enough to realize this person could be a foe. Yes, his dog liked her. That's fine. But why sudden;t jump on the Dahj bus? With minimal info, BTW. Sir Patrick is over 70, and I admire his skills at any age, much less his current one. At the same time, he moved fairly feebly through the episode. I wonder if his choosing to go to the archives is emblematic of this older Picard, and will be reflected in future choices. Let the new young folks do the fighting and adventure. I'm interested. And I love seeing this world back on my screen. And it can get as dark as it wants to, as long as the characters are true to themselves. Sometimes the world is dark.

The best plot suddenly disappeared... what happened to the old guy who wanted to die? They just walked him off? I really thought that had possibilities and it evaporated. Could have done with a lot less Manny and his show and more of this plot. I did like Phil’s Pop-pop line.

Agreed and I got that. My issue was that this was from something decades ago. And it was such a small thing. Not something that memorable. In fact, they didn’t even seem to remember much at all about it until the plot required them to.

Well, it was a better episode, anyway. Claire and Mitch's obsession seemed contrived. I suspected Phil or his dad were the penguin, and wa-la. Enjoyed Cam's hillbilly.

It *is* annoying, and it doesn't have to be that way. When Modern Family is at its best, it isn't that way, and it can be very funny and also very clever. Even this bad episodes have some clever lines. The thing that is puzzling about MF is why they made the family so awful at the end, and why they seem to have thrown any character development out the window. Do they have no pride? As for Schitt's Creek, this isn't that thread so I'll be brief ... I tried to watch it, and the humor is very broad and bland, and not very clever. Couldn't get past that.

And Stella. I really shouldn't think about this show afterward, but the more I thought about Beckham and Cox being on this episode, the more inexplicable the whole thing was. First, why choose them? A couple of 90s A-list stars? If the point was that they were no longer celebrities, it wasn't made well aside from some members of the family not knowing at all who they were. And speaking of that, why do most of the characters not recognize who they are, or, if they do know who Beckham is, focus only on Beckham's wife? My 14yo daughter watches Friends on netflix. She would have identified Cox right away. The whole interaction made no sense. Credit to Beckham and Cox for being game, and getting in the hot tub. No fault with their work. I wonder what they were paid?

The only thing I could figure was that Gloria was right.... Vincent the hair dresser was a hack. But if he was that much of a hack, seems like people would have noticed before Claire.

“I know I am but a lowly stable boy...” Stephen Merchant was wonderful. The family was horrid.

I finally started watching this show, and binged almost all of the episodes over the past few weeks. The only one I couldn’t finish was Kristin Wiig, because the number of times she said “like” drove me insane. Someone her age really shouldn't speak that way. I enjoy the dissection of comedy and specific bits. Also, when you are worth $950 million, you can afford to not care about much and do what the heck you want.