After 4 Episodes of Star Trek Picard…

Well, STP, you finally damn did it. Here I am, a mere seconds after having finished watching episode 4 channeling my own “Absolute Candor.” I don’t know where to start, so let’s just get into it.

Star Trek Picard is leaps and bounds better than Star Trek Discovery.
This is not opinion. This is provable fact. The writing is better, the directing is better, the sets are better, the characters are better, the visuals are…. we’ll come back to that one.

Star Trek Picard is mediocre, so far.
I really liked the first episode. It had issues, sure, but it was pretty fun. The second episode had more issues, but was still ok. The third episode had more issues that stopped it from being good. This fourth episode is… bipolar. In fact, this whole show so far is bipolar. There’s the very heartfelt and remorseful — and slow and plodding — Picard storyline where he’s fighting the demons from his past while engulfed in earthtones. Then there’s the very cold and mysterious — and slow and plodding — Romulan/Borg storyline where nobody has any clue what’s going on, whatsoever. There’s a very simple solution to this, of course….

Condense this shit.
The first two episodes should have been one episode. The first three episodes should have been two episodes. And the first four episodes should have been three episodes. The story is about Jean-Luc Picard, right? Then why is half the screentime being given to the CW Vampire Twins and Lal 2.0? The story is about Jean-Luc…