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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x09 - "Subspace Rhapsody"

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It's both.

In the closed captions it was "I'm the ex" the first time the line was sung and "I'm the X" thereafter.
Yes.

He is also searching for "why" and he solves for Y.

The lyrics are very clever, and it indicates a slide from vibrantly emotional to coldly logical (why -> Y; ex -> X).

Another layer of meaning is that he's singing that he does not understand himself or how he relates to other people. A further implication of this is that, therefore, he's probably wrong about what Christine thinks and how she feels. What she sang was, if she has to break up, she's ready, not definitively that she's breaking up. It was too much for Spock to handle.
 
Wow, that was quite something!

The whole premise is something that seems taken from a Douglas Adams book and is obviously only there to allow for the singing, still kudos to the writers for making it almost believable.

Not taking the episode too seriously, it was an hour of pure fun and in that it totally delivered.

A rare 10.
 
Consistent, yes that is true. But she could have broke it off with him in a less disrespectful way. That goes against her established feelings and friendship with Spock.
I believe part of the point of living in musical reality being a problem was that it was compelling people to do and say things that they wouldn't if they were behaving rationally all because of the rules of theatrical drama.

It was also a point that these drama driven musical outbursts that stressed/broke/exposed pike's, spock's, and la'an's "relationships" didn't hold a candle to the potency of collaboratively coming together to sing in unison.
 
I believe part of the point of living in musical reality being a problem was that it was compelling people to do and say things that they wouldn't if they were behaving rationally all because of the rules of theatrical drama.

It was also a point that these drama driven musical outbursts that stressed/broke/exposed pike's, spock's, and la'an's "relationships" didn't hold a candle to the potency of collaboratively coming together to sing in unison.

The songs didn't compel her to not tell Spock at all, while just about everyone else already knew. She decided that on her own before Spock even went to the bar and he deduced her news.
 
The songs didn't compel her to not tell Spock at all, while just about everyone else already knew. She decided that on her own before Spock even went to the bar and he deduced her news.
True but if she wasn't in musical reality she could have given a rational explanation like "he's busy with the subspace fold" it was musical reality that compelled the most emotionally heavy responce, in both of them.
 
At the end of the finale, when they are laughing, I wonder if that is the actual reaction of the cast.

After watching this again, I can say that yes it is. You can clearly hear Paul Wesley say "Good Anson!" I like that they left this in.

Since this episode was shot differently to a normal Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode, we got to see angles of the sets that we had not seen before. In fact, I think we saw parts of main engineering that were never shown on screen before. Loved it.

While I found the Klingon boy band aka K-pop funny, I think I would have preferred the Opera that apparently they filmed first. That better be on the Bluray. I think Opera would have suited the Klingons better, that or something like Lamb of God, Burn the Priest.
 
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