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Picard, spoilers
I liked the show up until the last few episodes
It seemed like it might genuinely embrace "synthetic life is different from organic life! And that's fine, actually? Diversity of life and experience is.. Good?"
But then they end the series on a note of "It's good only if they're like organic life! In that it's innate that life will always die and that's beautiful. Anything else is a meaningless unlife full of spoopy tentacles."
(Hydras are, presumably, evil tentacle synths on a deep-cover mission to Earth)
So: a big dramatic journey that hits a lot of high notes, then crashlands straight into Caveman Science Fiction in the final act
(http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/)
re: Picard, spoilers
I can only imagine the sheer number of hand-wringing eulogies to cancer if humanity discovers a means to consistently nullify its mortality rate
"It gave us meaning and risk! Without it we are bereft!"
Like the risk of preventable death gives life some essential poignancy that each new technology strips away
That can go right in the bin