Episode Discussion / Star Trek: Strange New Worlds / 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
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9 months ago
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Director(s) | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 | Subspace Rhapsody | Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff | Dermott Downs | 2023-08-03 |
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God I hate musicals. This is going to be a tough one to watch. Anybody seen it yet? How bad is it?
Gonna watch it when I eat lunch in a few, I expect it to be bad too. Will report back.
Ok, just finished it. IMO the only people who will like this episode are people who love musicals or shows like American Idol.
I'm someone with the potential to like a musical, I loved the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode and still revisit some of those songs some 22 years later (I'm not adverse to belting out a mean rendition of "Sweet's Song" in the shower). This episode though very rarely escaped the cringe zone IMO, Nurse Chapel's song was the only standout as it had a melody that wasn't derived from the stale template of modern pop music. Overall though the biggest emotions I felt through this episode were boredom and cringe. It really dragged at certain points.
As far as the story of the episode the musical-ness is explained by the excitation of an "improbability field" near the ship then Uhura and Spock tried transmitting music at it. A bit of nomenclature that continues NuTrek's tradition of ripping things off by ripping of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's "Infinite Improbability Drive". Really the explanation of this whole thing was just some bullshit to make singing, dancing Spock and Kirk happen. I know I'll never rewatch or re-listen to any part of this cringefest ever again. This one was strait up painful to sit through.