Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Page 8 of 14)

New episode is as terrible as I expected, not much more to say about that

I have to agree. Quite simply, awful. It felt like a season 12 episode where they had run out of story-lines and needed to do something 'fun'. I wasn't a fan of the crossover episode in 2x07 either. I don't watch that show and none of those characters mean anything to me. I think this is the best trek in years, but this episode just served as a montage to move relationships forward and I found it lazy.

Yeah there was hope for this show in my opinion too but it's just getting worse and worse. I just did a quick count, I liked or found 6 episodes tolerable in Season 1, this far I've found 2 episodes tolerable in Season 2.

If I wanted to watch a musical, I'd be watching a musical, not Star Trek. We all knew it was coming so it wasn't a surprise and I just skipped all the songs.

Honestly, I think the money men in Hollywood have finally woken up to how bad the quality of the entertainment industry is now and will use this extended writers strike to make a purge of all the talentless writers.

paulholmes1981 the best Trek of late was Picard Season 3 if you missed it, skip S1 & 2, you wont miss anything and just watch S3, it was great.

Song and dance, symptom of an encounter: C-

Rhyming like hip hop, with orchestration: F

OFF after 4 minutes: AAA

Terrible episode what a waste of time, I ended up fast forwarding it after the first 5 minutes. This series just seems to be going downhill fast.

I could go on and on about how shit this episode truly was, but I won't. 

What I will say, however, is that it just didn't work, it was wrong.  So, so, wrong.  Gene Roddenberry must be turning in his grave.  Cancel this mess NOW, for the love of God.

2x8 - Under the Cloak of War - Kinda derivative story, but provides clarity to just how bad the Klingon wars were and how the effects are still palpable, and gave lots of exposition of Dr. Joseph M'Benga.  Weird ending, like, I'm still kinda confused at how he killed the guy and got away with it and no follow up?

2x9 - Subspace Rhapsody - This concept has been in the zeitgeist for a while, that is, a reality where we all speak in song or live in a musical, and I enjoyed how they came up with a way to put that idea into Star Trek.  For being forced into a nebula that would produce a cringey Musical circumstance, the cast crushed their performances, pitch perfect too, especially Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh, incredible voice, that was amazing, and at the same time they managed to really get into their characters and move the story forward, bringing us closer to their inner struggles with relationships, all while kinda taking the piss out of Star Trek by not taking themselves too seriously.....unlike Discovery and the vast majority on this forum.  To each their own though.  I thought it was fun.

As for everyone's criticisms, Subspace Rhapsody is VERY on brand for Star Trek, like every gimmicky holodeck episode ever made; like who wasn't laughing at the Doctor sing to Tuvok in "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy." Just wish there were more episodes per season of Strange New Worlds so this type of episode would feel more like a one-off, to balance out the tone, as every episode so far, feels like a special.  Unfortunately, that may be the nature of production limits/problems/ratings in 2023 though.  Sadly, the only plot point we know with certainty is that Christopher Pike is going to die soon and Kirk is going to take over, which is kind of a bummer, not a fan, it's like we have something sad to look forward too.

That is VERY  good news, getting rid of quiff-man

Unpopular opinion: I really enjoyed 2x9!

Nope, can't remember any and honestly don't really want to. 

But if you re-read my comment I didn't just say the songs were OK. 

Based on the caliber of songs you normally get when a running series does a musical episode, I think they were better written/performed. 

Pretty low bar, but I still think a little bit more thought went into them than average.

All that being said, they tried and good job to them for it.  Hopefully they stick to writing a Sci Fi show and not a musical.

hmmm Zoey's Exraordinary Playlist? Glee?

https://next-episode.net/zoeys-extraordinary-playlist

"These weren't songs meant to remember," you really think that?????