That musical episode

[frandroid]

What a hokey mess.

Also I think that some of the actors are bad at lipsyncing, even if it's over their own singing. I mean they don't have much time to practice and they're not songs they'll ever sing again, but it's something that really bugs me! Or maybe they recorded the episode before recording the audio that they dubbed on later, so there was no chance at syncing.

Also, come on, what a missed opportunity to have Klingons sing black metal!!!

Comments

[sabotabby]

I said on FB that the musical episode felt like it was written by ChatGPT. Musicals have a certain structure to them; this had a different structure that I'm pretty sure could be generated by typing the words "star trek musical" into the LLM. The resolution was classic ChatGPT—"we can overcome all obstacles as long as we work together" while the episode itself was devoid of both Star Trek in-jokes (Klingon opera, the fact that both Spock and Uhura have musical talent, even something like a redshirt or two dying could have been good) and memorable lyrics.

[ioplokon]

The Red Shirt's Lament could be a really funny patter song, especially if they had someone gifted w/ physical comedy.

[frandroid]

Yeah I like your ChatGPT comparison, I think it's apt. Personally I also felt I was listening to Céline Dion almost the whole time. Ugh.

Anyway. It's Trek. I think this episode feels like it sucks more because they've raised the bar so much with this series. :)

[sabotabby]

Oh, for sure. It's like Doctor Who in that I will complain endlessly but it's not like I'm not going to watch it.