Stargate: Atlantis (2004) – Hide and Seek, and Thirty Eight Minutes

Everyone is settling into Atlantis, McKay (David Hewlett) is taking gene therapy from Beckett (Paul McGillion) so he can access Ancient technology, but now he has a problem in Hide and Seek. Written by Robert C. Cooper from a story by Cooper and Brad Wright, this episode was first broadcast on 23 July, 2004. McKay…

Ready or Not (2019) – Matt Bettinelli-Opin and Tyler Gillett

It took me way too long to get around to watching Ready or Not. I’ll say thanks to Mike Flanagan, and his podcast, Director’s Commentary for putting me on to it. And I should have watched it long ago, as it has a few friends of the blog in it, the wonderful Kristian Bruun, Mark…

Star Trek: Picard (2022) – Hide and Seek, and Farewell

The penultimate episode of season two has some solid action beats, and some nice emotional arcs, and reminds us that these characters are flawed and human, and that is why we relate to them. There’s also a nice line that explains the appearance of Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) mother in The Next Generation episode Where No…