Todd the Chimera Linguist

I -- *sigh -- I don't hate it. My favorite bit is the story of self-mutilating, peripubescent Angel; it broke my heart. Also: Of COURSE Kelsey Grammer is Beast! Furthermore/Too: What if X3 had been presented as several MCU-esque films focusing on individual characters or relationships like Baby Angel (Putto?), Callisto (and the Morlocks), Beast (and the Department of Mutant Affairs), Maggie (Magneto) & Jean, Meme-ernaut & Chuck, etc? The relationship between Prof. X and Juggernaut would have been a particularly interesting one to explore in a movie.

"Picard" is hardly perfect. It has taken 5 or 6 episodes for it to seem at all like a coherent narrative, characters flash into Admiral Picard's life and immediately become trusted allies, 7/9 deserves her own John Wick-style film series yet gets used in this series like a deus ex machina (ex teleporter), and the guile-lite Romulan ronin Elnor should have more complexity as a character than "Picard's True-blue Attack Hound". The story about the personhood of artificially intelligent/sentient/sapient beings, however, is promising. So far, the series is rushing through the Great Questions that TNG (Data, Lore, & Moriarty) and Voyager (Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram) handled more carefully. I'm still not sure how long this series is projected to continue; they may have time to take a few steps back and explore the lives of the android Soji, any surviving ex-Borg, and the Holography Swarm around Captain Rios. Fingers crossed!