It was a dark and stormy night. At least in the strange dream that opened “The Impossible Box,” a dream Soji’s been experiencing for some time and may hold the key to where she really comes from.
It was also a dark and stormy episode of “Star Trek: Picard.” “The Impossible Box” pushed the narrative forward considerably after the rip-roaring detour of Seven of Nine’s rampage the previous week. But it did so not through explosive action but instead through thoughtful character turns: it feels like a lot more happened here than really did, and even those seismic events are moments we could have called well in advance — Soji realizing she’s a synth, Narek getting what he wants from her then, at last, casting her aside, Picard setting foot on a Borg cube once more. But what’s striking is that even though we saw all these moments coming episodes ago,...
It was also a dark and stormy episode of “Star Trek: Picard.” “The Impossible Box” pushed the narrative forward considerably after the rip-roaring detour of Seven of Nine’s rampage the previous week. But it did so not through explosive action but instead through thoughtful character turns: it feels like a lot more happened here than really did, and even those seismic events are moments we could have called well in advance — Soji realizing she’s a synth, Narek getting what he wants from her then, at last, casting her aside, Picard setting foot on a Borg cube once more. But what’s striking is that even though we saw all these moments coming episodes ago,...
- 2/28/2020
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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“We teased it in episode one, which means you know he’s going to get there eventually,” Star Trek: Picard executive producer Akiva Goldsman says of returning the Sir Patrick Stewart portrayed character to the Borg cube for the first time in decades. “It’s eventually,” the Oscar winner makes clear on today’s podcast of “The Impossible Box”, the sixth episode in the first season of Picard.
Take a listen here to my conversation with Goldsman and our special guest Jonathan Frakes as we go deep into...
“We teased it in episode one, which means you know he’s going to get there eventually,” Star Trek: Picard executive producer Akiva Goldsman says of returning the Sir Patrick Stewart portrayed character to the Borg cube for the first time in decades. “It’s eventually,” the Oscar winner makes clear on today’s podcast of “The Impossible Box”, the sixth episode in the first season of Picard.
Take a listen here to my conversation with Goldsman and our special guest Jonathan Frakes as we go deep into...
- 2/27/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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