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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8584512" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I find the pacing fine this season, or at least not nearly so bad as the opening of season 1. Episodes three and four didn't strike me as particularly bloated (and I went in unenthused about a time travel plot). In any case, I've made my peace with television always having to be in lazily paced full season plot arcs now.BUT, the fact that it's a Picard based series did remind me a couple times that the crew of the Enterprise D would have wrapped up the whole situation in about 52 minutes. And that might have involved lots of contrivances, technobabble, dei ex machina, and maybe even a plot hole or two, all just so they can reset at the end of the episode. But for all those issues I actually rewatch such episodic television, which one can just dip into for an episode or two, over and over agian if I like it, whereas modern "prestige television" seems to want to turn every story into a 7-10 hour experience, which even if I like it I'm not going to come back to.</blockquote>