I had hope for this series, s01 was ok. Can’t watch it now.
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Ugh… why…!! Lets sing about this monster that eats children and farts fire lalalala. Ugh…
The show is good why fuck it up
You obviously feel very strongly about this.
Have you considered bursting into song to give your feelings full expression?
Oh My.
Umm… what. Is there an overlap between Star Trek fans and musical episode fans that I didn’t know about? 😅
YES
Computer, play Nightbird.
I’m actually not a huge musical fan, but I do enjoy it when it’s worked into something I already enjoy like Trek, as long as the song writing is good, I’m hyped.
Hi, I didn’t know it until I heard about this episode but apparently I’m that overlap.
I know this is a staple troupe that shows drag out but who actually enjoys these musical episodes. Like I get it, it’s novel but I’m not sure if I’m the demographic but since a lot of the shows I’ve watched has had these episodes I’m wondering if I’m not supposed to like them also… but the record I’m skipping this one. All the singing is cringe and gets in the way of the storytelling. I’m fine with zany antics but not with random song and dance escapades.
novel
its overplayed, so it cannot be novel
I get you but I meant for the show as in this specific series hasn’t done one yet but I agree with you that we don’t need another one
mhm
If you don’t like musicals, it’s likely best to pass on this one. Many of us do, and welcome them.
For me, the key factors are whether the main cast have the musical theatre chops to pull it off well and whether the music is written by people who know what they’re doing in that specific form.
In this case, there is an award winning Broadway musical performer and others who have significant experience in touring companies. Likewise, the songwriters are both experienced alt musicians but also have written musical episodes for DC. I expect the quality to be high.
I generally love musical episodes (OMWF is my favorite Buffy episode and the musical episodes of the Magicians are always the best episodes of that show), but there are some stinkers (Fringe did it? Why?) and I’m really not at all sure that SNW is the right platform for this (It would work better on Lower Decks).
But I’ve been disappointed with SNW season 2 relative to season 1. I’m not sure SNW is going to keep me as a viewer
Dan Abbnett managed to pull of a musical issue of his comic Lawless, a gritty space western set in the Judge Dreed-verse, with a recorded soundtrack to listen to while reading and it was dope. I reckon SNW can pull it off.
I guess I’m the target audience, since I like musical episodes (Xena and Buffy especially) … hell, even a bit of DS9 holosuite crooning is enjoyable.
I adore musical episodes, assuming the cast has the chops to pull it off. I’m genuinely saddened by some of the salty takes in here about it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!
For those who can’t read music, the song on the poster is (of course) the TOS theme, specifically the iconic part following the voiceover where “STAR TREK” appears on screen. In other words, what you expected it to be. 😉
And the TOS theme does have lyrics, though they’re terrible and Roddenberry just wrote them to unapologetically steal half of Courage’s royalties.
Ilia’s theme from TMP also had lyrics.
This sounds ridiculous. And I’m so down for it.
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We’ll see… Can’t say I’m stoked, but maybe it’ll be better than I anticipate. I’m not really a fan of musicals in the first place. I could count the ones I find ‘acceptable’ on one hand, and can only think of two atm. If it turns out merely ‘acceptable’ I’ll be happy enough. Hopefully the actors had fun.
Noooooo. I despise musicals and hate it when the shows I like do one, I guess I can skip this episode
I love musicals, but not on my TV shows.
Hell, you could even skip commenting. 🤣
This will either be really fun or total nonsense. I like that they’re trying new things instead of only recycling old Trek tropes with aliens that have a different kind of bump on the forehead.
I think the word you’re looking for is “and.”
I feel like this has happened before, but maybe I’m just remembering The Doctor singing about Tuvok going into pon farr
That was Picardo singing a parody of “La Donna e Mobile”, an aria in Verdi’s opera Rigoletto.
DS9 also had some episodes where they showed off their cast’s vocal chops, eg Avergy Brooks and James Darren singing “The Best is Yet to Come” and Nana Visitor singing “Fever”.
Don’t forget everyone’s favorite, allamaraine!
That will be coming in Lower Decks apparently.
