Re: [TV orNotTV] Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

2023-08-04 Thread M-D November 
Anyone else think the joke about 'a universe where we turn into bunnies' 
was a reference to Buffy's "Once More with Feeling"?

Without spoiling too much...as both a Trek fan and a lover of musical 
theater, I think they managed to find a sweet spot between the two genres. 
 The songs were above average for a 'very special' musical episode, and all 
of them did something to move the overarching theme of 'connection' forward 
in some way. 

Kevin - I don't know if it's fair to compare "Subspace Rhapsody" to "My 
Musical", only because the setups are very different.  SNW's characters are 
aware they're singing, so the songs (and how they're handled in-story) are 
more meta (and in multiple cases, Uhura prompts a song into being vs. it 
happening organically); by contrast, the songs in "My Musical" are taking 
place inside the head of a patient (Stephanie D'Abruzzo), so the characters 
have to commit to the musical theater convention of randomly singing when 
the mood strikes because that's how the observer is interpreting it. "Once 
More with Feeling" is arguably more analogous to "Subspace Rhapsody", 
although it does share the "make the music go away event" convention with 
"My Musical" (as opposed to OMWF, which actually ends on a song).

M-D
Although part of me wonders what would have happened if Uhura had blasted 
some Sondheim into the subspace fold.

On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-4 Kevin M. wrote:

> Just watched the Star Trek musical episode. As a musical, it wasn’t great 
> but could have been worse. I’d rank it better than the Buffy musical but 
> not as good as the Scrubs musical. 
>
> But this was probably the closest we will ever get to a Star 
> Trek/Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy crossover. They basically stumbled 
> upon an infinite improbability drive floating around in space. The 
> references were too blatant to have been coincidental or unintentional. 
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:19 AM Kevin M.  wrote:
>
>> The crossover episode is as about as good as modern Trek gets, though 
>> you’d have to be a fan of both shows to fully appreciate it.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:30 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>> tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full 
>>> episode... but *Strange New Worlds* will go there in season two... a 
>>> "space anomaly" zaps the *Enterprise *(well, *of course*)... the 
>>> Comic-Con panel where this was announced also touted an *SNW/Lower 
>>> Decks* crossover, and showed a taste of the fifth season opener for 
>>> *Discovery*...
>>>
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/
>>>  (link, 
>>> with two 'toobs and a link to the third)
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

2023-08-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger 
I noticed the same thing, and I should have gone back to see if the stardate 
had a "42" in it.


> On Aug 3, 2023, at 9:25 PM, Kevin M.  wrote:
> 
> Just watched the Star Trek musical episode. As a musical, it wasn’t great but 
> could have been worse. I’d rank it better than the Buffy musical but not as 
> good as the Scrubs musical. 
> 
> But this was probably the closest we will ever get to a Star Trek/Hitchhikers 
> Guide to the Galaxy crossover. They basically stumbled upon an infinite 
> improbability drive floating around in space. The references were too blatant 
> to have been coincidental or unintentional. 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:19 AM Kevin M.  > wrote:
>> The crossover episode is as about as good as modern Trek gets, though you’d 
>> have to be a fan of both shows to fully appreciate it.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:30 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV 
>> mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>>> There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full 
>>> episode... but Strange New Worlds will go there in season two... a "space 
>>> anomaly" zaps the Enterprise (well, of course)... the Comic-Con panel where 
>>> this was announced also touted an SNW/Lower Decks crossover, and showed a 
>>> taste of the fifth season opener for Discovery...
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/
>>>  (link, with two 'toobs and a link to the third)
>>> B
>>> 
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

2023-08-03 Thread Kevin M. 
Just watched the Star Trek musical episode. As a musical, it wasn’t great
but could have been worse. I’d rank it better than the Buffy musical but
not as good as the Scrubs musical.

But this was probably the closest we will ever get to a Star
Trek/Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy crossover. They basically stumbled
upon an infinite improbability drive floating around in space. The
references were too blatant to have been coincidental or unintentional.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:19 AM Kevin M.  wrote:

> The crossover episode is as about as good as modern Trek gets, though
> you’d have to be a fan of both shows to fully appreciate it.
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:30 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full
>> episode... but *Strange New Worlds* will go there in season two... a
>> "space anomaly" zaps the *Enterprise *(well, *of course*)... the
>> Comic-Con panel where this was announced also touted an *SNW/Lower Decks* 
>> crossover,
>> and showed a taste of the fifth season opener for *Discovery*...
>>
>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/
>>  (link,
>> with two 'toobs and a link to the third)
>> B
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

2023-07-25 Thread Kevin M. 
The crossover episode is as about as good as modern Trek gets, though you’d
have to be a fan of both shows to fully appreciate it.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:30 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full
> episode... but *Strange New Worlds* will go there in season two... a
> "space anomaly" zaps the *Enterprise *(well, *of course*)... the
> Comic-Con panel where this was announced also touted an *SNW/Lower Decks* 
> crossover,
> and showed a taste of the fifth season opener for *Discovery*...
>
> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/
>  (link,
> with two 'toobs and a link to the third)
> B
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[TV orNotTV] Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

2023-07-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV 
There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full 
episode... but *Strange New Worlds* will go there in season two... a "space 
anomaly" zaps the *Enterprise *(well, *of course*)... the Comic-Con panel 
where this was announced also touted an *SNW/Lower Decks* crossover, and 
showed a taste of the fifth season opener for *Discovery*...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/
 (link, 
with two 'toobs and a link to the third)
B

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