Originally Posted by Frazod:
I thought the musical episode was next. I guess that's next week.
Expecting something musical and happy and silly made this one even darker, and boy, it was deeply fucking dark. Lots of fighting and violence, but ground based. Again, very reminiscent of an old DS9 episode - the one where the crew was stranded with a ground unit fighting a protracted battle against the Jem'Hadar.
Excellent episode, though. The past three and next episode have been tense psychological thriller, comedy, today's PTSD rage fest, and up next, musical Star Trek!
They definitely like to change things up from week to week.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
I thought the musical episode was next. I guess that's next week.
Expecting something musical and happy and silly made this one even darker, and boy, it was deeply fucking dark. Lots of fighting and violence, but ground based. Again, very reminiscent of an old DS9 episode - the one where the crew was stranded with a ground unit fighting a protracted battle against the Jem'Hadar.
Excellent episode, though. The past three and next episode have been tense psychological thriller, comedy, today's PTSD rage fest, and up next, musical Star Trek!
They definitely like to change things up from week to week.
Still waiting for moar space battles.......
I enjoyed that conversation between Pike and M'Benga at the end of the episode. It was well done. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower: Incoming transport. Incoming transport. Incoming transport.
Yeah, that was a brutal little detail.
So thinking about that episode, basically M'Benga admitted to being the Butcher of J'Gal, murdered a Federation Ambassador, had Chappel conspire to a fake story of self-defense, then had Pike cover all of it up in an official report to Starfleet. That's about as dark as you can get, and certainly as dark as the show has gotten so far. I wonder if there will be blowback for all that for the Enterprise crew down the road.... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Yeah, that was a brutal little detail.
So thinking about that episode, basically M'Benga admitted to being the Butcher of J'Gal, murdered a Federation Ambassador, had Chappel conspire to a fake story of self-defense, then had Pike cover all of it up in an official report to Starfleet. That's about as dark as you can get, and certainly as dark as the show has gotten so far. I wonder if there will be blowback for all that for the Enterprise crew down the road....
My guess is that it comes back sometime during S5. Too good a hook not to revisit that at some point during the final season. [Reply]
Originally Posted by listopencil:
Watched the musical. There were some enjoyable bits here and there. But, overall, let's just forget that this happened.
Lol, pretty much ditto. I'm not a fan of musicals in the first place, but SNW has been so good overall I tried to keep an open mind about it.
It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, and it had some surprisingly good moments in there. The singing and the orchestration of the songs themselves were actually a lot better than I would've ever given them credit for.
