I enjoyed both but Discovery isn’t as much of a throwback as Picard was.
If you do watch it, Strange New Worlds (SNW) is worth checking out also. If I recall correctly, SNW resumes Pike’s and Spock’s story after Discovery season 2 (same cast) and Discovery seasons 3-5 forks off with the rest of the Discovery crew.
Lower Decks (animated) also extends the Discovery story. Have not seen it myself, but there have been headlines Discovery may or may not be cannon based on Lower Deck’s trying to fix continuity issues or something as the last episode goes all multiverse. Even if true, it doesn’t sway my enjoyment of the story and characters.
I gotta say, I really wanted to love the musical episode, but I actually felt like it was mid at best.
The songs weren’t memorable, and they mostly were just a character talking about their feelings. There was very little use of music to advance or explore the story. It was basically a standard episode with songs just kind of shoehorned in where they could. Compare with Once More With Feeling from Buffy, which I think demonstrates a much better understanding of musicals as a form.
Also, the idea that Klingons would be ashamed of singing is just insane. Klingons are the most dramatic culture in galactic history. Opera is canonically one of their favourite art forms. I refuse to believe that Klingons wouldn’t find the entire scenario rad as fuck.
I love this, because I still find myself humming at least two or three of the songs, and have rewatched that episode more times than I’m willing to admit. There were some serious bangers that got lodged in my head along with all the other random broadway musicals that are stuck in there. Just shows how different, and valid, peoples’ tastes can be. While yeah, they didn’t follow the musical form artfully, it’s because the plot was self-referentially ridiculous. They were stuck in a reality distortion field, forced to obey the laws of musicals because they blasted some Anything Goes at a cloud for the hell of it. I fucking love how absurd that is, and that they fully committed to it.
Yeah, I respect the hell out of them for doing the episode. Anyone who thinks old school Trek wasn’t silly as hell never watched much of old school Trek. It fully committed to being extremely silly and that’s great. I just felt like it could have been a better version of what it was.
And I stand by my comments about the Klingons. If anything, they should have been intervening to stop the Enterprise from closing the rift.
Well Discovery S1-2 will then be a prequel for you then for SNW since its the same actors for Pike and Spock. If you enjoyed those you should enjoy Discovery. I also watched Discovery after SNW since I wasn’t tracking all the recent series at the time.
I enjoyed both but Discovery isn’t as much of a throwback as Picard was.
If you do watch it, Strange New Worlds (SNW) is worth checking out also. If I recall correctly, SNW resumes Pike’s and Spock’s story after Discovery season 2 (same cast) and Discovery seasons 3-5 forks off with the rest of the Discovery crew.
Lower Decks (animated) also extends the Discovery story. Have not seen it myself, but there have been headlines Discovery may or may not be cannon based on Lower Deck’s trying to fix continuity issues or something as the last episode goes all multiverse. Even if true, it doesn’t sway my enjoyment of the story and characters.
I finished Strange New Worlds…only bad episode was the singing one. Just waiting for a new season.
It’s okay to be wrong
I joke. Theater nerds live for that episode (and the fantasy episode from s1)
No, no, they should be able to sit with their wrongness for a while and contemplate their choices.
I gotta say, I really wanted to love the musical episode, but I actually felt like it was mid at best.
The songs weren’t memorable, and they mostly were just a character talking about their feelings. There was very little use of music to advance or explore the story. It was basically a standard episode with songs just kind of shoehorned in where they could. Compare with Once More With Feeling from Buffy, which I think demonstrates a much better understanding of musicals as a form.
Also, the idea that Klingons would be ashamed of singing is just insane. Klingons are the most dramatic culture in galactic history. Opera is canonically one of their favourite art forms. I refuse to believe that Klingons wouldn’t find the entire scenario rad as fuck.
I love this, because I still find myself humming at least two or three of the songs, and have rewatched that episode more times than I’m willing to admit. There were some serious bangers that got lodged in my head along with all the other random broadway musicals that are stuck in there. Just shows how different, and valid, peoples’ tastes can be. While yeah, they didn’t follow the musical form artfully, it’s because the plot was self-referentially ridiculous. They were stuck in a reality distortion field, forced to obey the laws of musicals because they blasted some Anything Goes at a cloud for the hell of it. I fucking love how absurd that is, and that they fully committed to it.
Yeah, I respect the hell out of them for doing the episode. Anyone who thinks old school Trek wasn’t silly as hell never watched much of old school Trek. It fully committed to being extremely silly and that’s great. I just felt like it could have been a better version of what it was.
And I stand by my comments about the Klingons. If anything, they should have been intervening to stop the Enterprise from closing the rift.
The thing they were ashamed of was that they were doing K-Pop (lol) and not Opera, like real warriors
I only realised afterwards that it was literally K-pop and I still want to yell about that.
Yeah. Not everyone loves the Mona Lisa, either.
Different people have different tastes, and not everyone can recognize a brand new masterpiece.
Well Discovery S1-2 will then be a prequel for you then for SNW since its the same actors for Pike and Spock. If you enjoyed those you should enjoy Discovery. I also watched Discovery after SNW since I wasn’t tracking all the recent series at the time.