Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2 review

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Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2
The final episode. Concluding. Jurati schemes to break Picard out. Narek goes to the Artefact and then La Sirena. The Romulan armada arrives. Jurati breaks Picard out from the 'guest quarters'. (Using Saga's eyeball for the purpose was an interesting way to do it.) The interaction between the two as she breaks him out was very well done. Narek scuttles in the Artefact (which seems to have crashed onto a shoreline) and passes by Seven and Elnor talking about the XBs. That part was done rather well.
As was his reunion with Narissa. Not sure what to make of it, but it was well done. Rios and Raffi use the device Saga gave them to repair La Sirena's power systems. (Very similar, as a plot device, to the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who.) However, it is a good scene as they figure out how to use it to fix the intermix chamber. Then Narek arrives and begins throwing rocks at the ship to get their attention. The following scene, where Elnor had followed him from the Artefact was very well written.
This is followed by their planning to destroy the beacon. This part was very well plotted too. As was Picard and Jurati then taking La Sirena up to confront the Romulans. That Picard would need to figure out how to fly the ship was obvious. Although calling up Enoch would have been a good idea. It is then that the Zhat Vash fleet arrives. Picard tries to call off Oh's attack, but again the speech fails. She tries to destroy the settlement, but the Orchids arrive in orbit. This battle was done well enough.
Then Starfleet arrives, with Riker leading the fleet of advanced ships. That wasn't that surprising (given that the seed had been planted in Nepenthe), but it was very well done. That the Ancient Synths didn't amount to mutch was disappointing, but that may not be the point of the story.In that vein, that there isn't a battle between the two fleets wasn't that disappointing. Riker's speech was good (he learned from the best.) Talking about personal, it is because Soji realises she doesn't want Picard to die that she shuts down the beacon.
That part was done well, counteracting earlier when Narek tried to disable it. But then Picard dies anyway, due to the neurological condition. But not, when he meets Data in a simulation. So Data dies, again, and Picard lives on in a synthetic body. Not sure what to make of it. But Seven being reflective, remorseful over killing Bjayzl and Narissa was a good development. Overall a good, if a little sad, episode. 9/10.