10 TV Moments You Didn't Expect To See This Season

10. Picard "Dies" (But Gets A New Body) - Star Trek: Picard

Early in Star Trek: Picard, it's revealed that Picard (Patrick Stewart) is suffering from a terminal illness, and to most fans, this seemed like a piece of long-term storytelling that would pay off in a future season with Picard's probable demise.

After all, Picard had already been renewed for a second season before the first even began airing, so nobody expected the show to resolve Picard's fate this year, right?

And so, fans were surprised that the season finale indeed ended with Picard succumbing to his disease, but of course, there's a twist.

Dr. Altan Inigo Soong (Brent Spiner) ends up transferring his consciousness into a synthetic "golem" body, allowing Picard to live out a few extra decades of life in his new chassis.

Fans were heavily divided on the twist, some seeing it as a neat wrinkle to Picard's characterisation, while others viewed it as a needlessly silly affectation.

Either way, just about nobody saw it coming. Didn't most of us expect that Picard would eventually die of his condition in, like, season five or something?