#terry matalas is a potato

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PROBABLY

...Laris is probably still out there

...Laris is probably still out there

...Laris is PROBABLY still out there?!

...LARIS IS PROBABLY STILL OUT THERE

WHAT DO YOU MEAN PROBABLY YOU ABSOLUTE POTATO

I know you forgot she existed for all of season three but what's with the PROBABLY

I mean you spent all that time building up a romance between Picard and his HOUSEKEEPER awesome former spy lover and you so thoroughly forgot she existed you're not even sure she's alive anymore?!

YOU POTATO

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[kalena-henden]

quarantine tag game!

I was tagged by @gwil-lee thanks!

ARE YOU STAYING HOME FROM WORK AND SCHOOL? Yes, I’m working my full-time job from my living room. 

IF YOU’RE STAYING HOME, WHO IS THERE WITH YOU? I’m 95% by myself because my roommate mainly lives with her boyfriend.

ARE YOU A HOMEBODY? YES! I’m even wearing a sweatshirt right now with ‘home body’ embroidered on it. LOL It’s gotten alot of use during this lockdown.

AN EVENT THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT GOT CANCELLED? My cousin’s wedding was supposed to be last weekend. Also, I’m not going to be able to celebrate my milestone birthday in person since our city’s shelter-at-home orders were extended to mid-May. I’m not surprised but I had been looking forward to it. I have a friend’s wedding scheduled for June so we’re waiting to see if that will get cancelled as well. 

WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY? Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (LOVE THIS!), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Frozen 2, Charlie’s Angels (2019), Jodhaa Akbar, Minority Report, He’s Just Not That Into You, Bride & Prejudice, Late Bloomer (with Nathan Parsons), Just My Type, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, A Walk to Remember, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame.

WHAT SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING? I had been trying to only watch television shows that for reasons I had never finished. So far I have finished The Crown, Victoria, and have one episode left of The Mandalorian. Still working my way through Parks and Rec. But then I got roped into watching the new MacGyver with Lucas Till. For S4, the network brought on Terry Matalas (showrunner of the fantastic 12 Monkeys tv show) to run the current season. I had been meaning to check it out (cause I will follow Terry anywhere now). Then I ended up on a Friday night not being able to decide watch to watch and decided to see what was on broadcast tv and there was a new episode of MacGyver. Cut to me binging my way through S1 this past week. Also, the new episode on Friday had at least a dozen hidden Easter Eggs for 12 Monkeys, all while delivering a solid episode with real stakes and emotional consequences. I think we need to start calling that the Terry Special™.

WHAT MUSIC ARE YOU LISTENING TO? Week 1 of the quarantine I read a tweet about about a tropey fic suggestion meet cute for two strangers who get stuck in quarantine together and fall in love. Then people started responding with their mostly punny fic titles. The one I liked the best was Love in the Time of Coronavirus so I made a playlist for it. It’s chill and emotional but you can also dance to it.

WHAT ARE YOU READING? I read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal. I’m currently reading God is Not Mad at You by Joyce Meyer and two books where the main character spends alot of time by themselves: The Martian by Andy Weir and Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF-CARE? Making my bed (which I never do), getting dressed (t-shirt and jeans/leggings and earrings), daily skincare routine but absolutely no makeup (video chat has to take me as i am), wearing my contacts during the work week and clark kenting it with my glasses on the weekends, a nice long bath + my new sugar scrub, eating healthy and more importantly snacking healthy (that’s my weakness normally), carving out time to vege out and not letting myself feel guilty about it, calling/texting family/friends, recording my day and daily gratitudes in my bullet journal (I just started this in February and it’s been helpful in keeping my sanity). 

I hope you are all staying safe! 

Tagging: @gentlesleaze​ @captainandor​ @onlymorelove​ @la-ermitana​ @gilbertsannes​ @ababyyoda​ (Btw I do plan on doing more of the memes I’ve been tagged in.)

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I've said before, when TNG hijacked the ending in the last 5 minutes of Enterprise, it was terrible- Enterprise wasn't even allowed to finish their own show.

What TNG did to Picard is so much worse. Picard is 3 seasons- and the entire last season is hijacked by TNG nostalgia, displacing all of the Picard characters and storylines for a pure nostalgia jack-off. An entire THIRD of the show was stolen.

The plot made no sense, the main characters were displaced and barely allowed to not only interact with the Legacy characters, but each other. They are transformed from main characters to wallpaper for the Legacy characters to play against- the set dressing.

Every single one of the actors on Picard, save Patrick Stewart, deserve to be angry for what they did to them. I'm genuinely not sure what is worse- throwing off so many main characters and pretending they don't exist, or making the main characters sit there and listen to Picard and his son traumadump.

They should have just ended Picard at season 2 and done a TNG season 8. That's what they clearly wanted to begin with. Because shoving all the main characters aside for a reunion (a bad one at that) has made me not only hate Picard but retroactively come to hate TNG.

Scott Bakula and the Enterprise cast must be chuckling a bit at the cheap trick Picard played.

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