I despise musical episodes and had to stop watching this one after I heard Spock's autotuned voice.
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I feel like I’m the only person who was SUPER excited when the musical episode was announced, and.. rather underwhelmed by the actual episode. (Except for the a capella theme song. I adored that!) Maybe my expectations were too high, but.. I just didn’t think most of the songs were that good. I need to rewatch it a couple times, maybe it’ll grow on me.
What the heck, this episode must have taken so much effort like 20+ minutes of singing + music (and the writing of the songs as well), and in a good half of those requires choreographed dancing as well, the a capella version of the intro, and a few orchestra versions in the credits
I was grinning almost the entire time for this episode, it was just....fun! And it moved the plot along too! (Although you kinda need to with so few episodes in a season)
This was incredible. Loved seeing Celia Rose Gooding so clearly in their element. And Bruce Horak returns in one of the strangest Klingon moments yet!
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I LOVED this episode! I wouldn't be opposed to them doing another musical episode 😁
Given that the subspace rhapsody spread to many other ships in the area, they could do a parallel episode from the point of another the ship, say the Farragut but it won't be the same primary cast.
I would put my money on the anomaly somehow chasing Boims to the 24th century Cerritos.
I loved the episode overall, but that Klingon fleet should have been commanded by L'Rell herself (though that was an extremely fun way to bring back Bruce Horak without shoehorning the Ghost of Hemmer into it).
God I wish there was more Klingon Heavy Metal out there...
but that Klingon fleet should have been commanded by L’Rell herself
Whaaaattt ... this exists!! Man ... that klingon in the verses really works well! And yes, giving us something a bit more faithful to klingons feels like the missed opportunity of the episode ... pretty sure there would have been a way for it be comedic and klingon at the same time.
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@ValueSubtracted
Subspace Rhapsody is the greatest episode in all of Star Trek canon.
I will die on this hill.
Edit: cannon -> canon
No, sorry. Very bad. Only Rose-Gooding and Chong could sing, the autotune was obvious and jarring for all the others. The songs weren't memorable (I confess I really dislike the modern US showtune style, but it can at least be catchy — this wasn't), the choreography and even the editing was shoddy. The first episode of Trek, other than Enterprise, that I've wanted to switch off.
The story and plot points were good, but SOME of the songs where maybe a minute too long for my taste. Any song with Spock is good, but the autotune... Yikes. Lol
Maybe not on my rewatch list.
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That was insane, I was in equal parts cringing and laughing my arse off.
I knew La'an would be amazing. I was also very excited when I realised Kirk would be involved.
The singing of the intro should be permanent.
Nope, can’t do it. I was afraid of the LD crossover but I got through it. But this, I can’t watch it. I got through a couple minutes and had to turn it off.
Hmm, it looks like we're not allowed to dislike the musical episode here... Regardless, I'm with you.
With rare exceptions, I just can't stand musicals. The forced jauntiness, hollow emotion, and in this case autotuned singing. Ugh! Give me normal acting or give me death (today is a good day for it).