finally watching s2

Watched eps 4/5 last night , the whole Rios captured/rescue thing was quite reminiscent of Terminator Dark Fate, fun Trek IV punk cameo and young Guinan was a surprise, more references to Kirks time travelling (I don't care how on the frickin nose it is i love it!) and even 'Generations' (Picard says it when he's in the dilapidated home, like Q saying 'Yesterdays Enterprise' in Ep 1), Lea Thompson (from BTTF) is in this? and directing!? (Frakes is back directing too. shades of First Contact with Borg Queen). we get Brent as yet another Soong!, but his scenes with Q are magnificent/quality acting (De Launcie is great in this series), yeah I can see how fans were pissed off with it feeling as if its dragging out, too fan servicey, and getting all woke.. but im def enjoying this quite abit

Ok its getting abit of a slog over the course of middle eps can sort of get why its been criticized. That being said, its still enjoyable to a fan and Picard's backstory though abit dull is quite interesting (inspired casting having Baltar 2.0/Bashir lookalike as Picards father), and now veering into full First Contact territory (borg trying to disrupt rocket launch that will create Star Treks future) . Anyway I've saved the final ep for tonight..

Finished it, last ep was abit underwhelming. Q is dead? and some stuff overall just didnt make too much sense/wtf (Larris as a Gary Seven?) or contrived/fan serve (Wesley? Project Khan? - although that does tie in with the augment eps of 'Enterprise')

All in all was like elements of several of the best Treks: City on the Edge, Mirror Mirror, Voyage Home, QWho, Yesterdays Enterprise, Tapestry, All Good Things*, First Contact, along with elements of A Christmas Carol/Wonderful Life/BTTF/Avengers Endgame all put in a blender with whats big these days in the 2020s (mental health, toxic masculinity, racism, immigration, etc)

*thinking about the AGT connection its like all 3 seasons of Picard are kind of based around that final ep - Picard retired on his vineyard/illness (s1), timetravel/Q (s2), and the TNG crew coming to aid Picard (s3) .
Also you could look to Pic s1 as The Search for Data (to Nemesis' Wrath of Shinzon) and this s2 as The Voyage Home (with s3 set to be TNGs Undiscovered Country)

Rewatching s2 in light of having just watched s3. just a few eps in and a few things are apparent, I can barely recall watching any of it, its bad in comparison to s3 (the acting is pretty bad too bar DeLancie), and feels very 'TV' .. whereas s3 legit feels like a big Trek movie for the most part (with great acting from all the cast)