This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Strange New Worlds 2x09 Subspace Rhapsody.

Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

  • williams_482@startrek.websiteOPM
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    1 year ago

    I could tell that Chapel and Spock’s songs had some significant structural similarities (I am largely ignorant of the technical aspects of music, so I couldn’t say what exactly). Is that typically a part of the “rebuke and reprise” sequence (which is also totally new to me)?

    • nxdefiant@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      I think a reprise is technically when a song is used again as an expansion on / evolution of a certain theme. The best example that comes to mind is from Phantom of the Opera where the phantom cry- sings to himself after he witnesses Cristine confess her love to the other guy.

      Painting with a broad brush here, but this episode definitely feels like it was made by huge Broadway musical nerds 🤣