A Star Trek musical episode is something the younger me WANTED and thought I would love. I enjoyed the Buffy musical episode. I enjoyed Dr. Horrible. I enjoy other traditional musicals.
The Buffy musical episode, music, lyrics, and all, was written by one guy with no musical training over a handful of months. Yeah, it's Joss Whedon, and people copying him has been part of what makes entertainment shit today, but there's no denying the guy has been an absolute genius at times.
This episode was just such shit. Generic, awful, non-catchy pop. 30 seconds after the episode was over I couldn't remember a single melody or lyric. Autotune was OUT OF CONTROL. Cringe to the max.
This scene in particular drove me crazy. The premise is that some magical subspace crap, I don't remember what, was making everyone sing uncontrollably. This scene should have had one of the klingon subordinates start singing some pop ship and the captain looks at him with disgust, backhands him and calls him a petaq, and then launches into some grand Wagnerian operatic thing about blowing up the Enterprise.
Klingon opera, and Klingon fascination with Shakespeare, drama, etc., has been established over more than 30 years of Trek history, and all these piece of shit hack soyboy pop culture-dick sucking assholes can come up with "KLINGON K POP GET IT?!"
Didn't even need to be their actual operas, could have just been the same pirate/sea shanties they frequently go for at the drop of a hat because that's how they are often described; as space pirates/vikings.
My favorite is this one, the first 40 seconds, from the episode Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places on DS9. I really wish they had done the full song.
This scene should have had one of the klingon subordinates start singing some pop ship and the captain looks at him with disgust, backhands him and calls him a petaq, and then launches into some grand Wagnerian operatic thing about blowing up the Enterprise.
If they wanted to play it for laughs they could have just gone balls to the walls actual Klingon opera/sea shanty and simply not translate any of it so the Enterprise crew have zero fucking clue what was just said. It would have meant a dramatic [possibly over dramatic since that's part of the point with Klingons and singing at times] yet humourous moment without ridiculing the entire race yet again.
And before any of the new fans/tourists whine about how Mary Suhura would know what was said just have them sing an older Klingon song that's in a dialect even Uhura didn't know rather than yet again have her be the Deus ex Machina that "fixes everything" as I believe was the line in her own song in that episode.
Not that taking away possibly grrlboss moments is ever likely to happen, but at the very least it gives more ammo to point out just how fucking retarded modern day writers are and how little they know of the franchises they continue to piss all over.
The Buffy musical episode, music, lyrics, and all, was written by one guy with no musical training over a handful of months. Yeah, it's Joss Whedon, and people copying him has been part of what makes entertainment shit today, but there's no denying the guy has been an absolute genius at times.
It sucks because Buffy was great but the consequences of Whedon quips have been almost as bad as JJ Abrams mystery box shows.
The Buffy musical episode, music, lyrics, and all, was written by one guy with no musical training over a handful of months. Yeah, it's Joss Whedon, and people copying him has been part of what makes entertainment shit today, but there's no denying the guy has been an absolute genius at times.
My main gripe with Whedon isn't even that, no matter how bad the jokes have been, it's that every single major female character in Buffy and Angel have the same bodytype because it's his kink
This scene should have had one of the klingon subordinates start singing some pop ship and the captain looks at him with disgust, backhands him and calls him a petaq, and then launches into some grand Wagnerian operatic thing about blowing up the Enterprise.
Sperg out.
A Star Trek musical episode is something the younger me WANTED and thought I would love. I enjoyed the Buffy musical episode. I enjoyed Dr. Horrible. I enjoy other traditional musicals.
The Buffy musical episode, music, lyrics, and all, was written by one guy with no musical training over a handful of months. Yeah, it's Joss Whedon, and people copying him has been part of what makes entertainment shit today, but there's no denying the guy has been an absolute genius at times.
This episode was just such shit. Generic, awful, non-catchy pop. 30 seconds after the episode was over I couldn't remember a single melody or lyric. Autotune was OUT OF CONTROL. Cringe to the max.
This scene in particular drove me crazy. The premise is that some magical subspace crap, I don't remember what, was making everyone sing uncontrollably. This scene should have had one of the klingon subordinates start singing some pop ship and the captain looks at him with disgust, backhands him and calls him a petaq, and then launches into some grand Wagnerian operatic thing about blowing up the Enterprise.
Klingon opera, and Klingon fascination with Shakespeare, drama, etc., has been established over more than 30 years of Trek history, and all these piece of shit hack soyboy pop culture-dick sucking assholes can come up with "KLINGON K POP GET IT?!"
sperg over.
Several older Trek episodes have bits of Klingon opera in them, and most of it sounded legitimately good. They could have explored that.
Didn't even need to be their actual operas, could have just been the same pirate/sea shanties they frequently go for at the drop of a hat because that's how they are often described; as space pirates/vikings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gifhqi3B3RU&t=121s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklJ6HbvSIY&t=85s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=740Eo5J7S7g&t=9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWGtuWs5e0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhdr0F6FvM
Nice. Thanks for the links.
My favorite is this one, the first 40 seconds, from the episode Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places on DS9. I really wish they had done the full song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq-6OUQEyDI
There's also this one, from Birthright pt 2 on Next Gen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVF3GJB8tBg
If they wanted to play it for laughs they could have just gone balls to the walls actual Klingon opera/sea shanty and simply not translate any of it so the Enterprise crew have zero fucking clue what was just said. It would have meant a dramatic [possibly over dramatic since that's part of the point with Klingons and singing at times] yet humourous moment without ridiculing the entire race yet again.
And before any of the new fans/tourists whine about how Mary Suhura would know what was said just have them sing an older Klingon song that's in a dialect even Uhura didn't know rather than yet again have her be the Deus ex Machina that "fixes everything" as I believe was the line in her own song in that episode.
Not that taking away possibly grrlboss moments is ever likely to happen, but at the very least it gives more ammo to point out just how fucking retarded modern day writers are and how little they know of the franchises they continue to piss all over.
It sucks because Buffy was great but the consequences of Whedon quips have been almost as bad as JJ Abrams mystery box shows.
My main gripe with Whedon isn't even that, no matter how bad the jokes have been, it's that every single major female character in Buffy and Angel have the same bodytype because it's his kink
That could have been funny.