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. <[email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/dd8b7deb-2dcc-4891-9ed4-f53990e464fan%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/dd8b7deb-2dcc-4891-9ed4-f53990e464fan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3af670a9-8375-4442-bd55-6b5f28d5f2d5n%40googlegroups.com.
