Spoilers Strange New Worlds jumps the shark... ("Subspace Rhapsody")

[Mage]

Didn't we already have a topic to discus this episode?

 

[The Gatekeeper]

All the various crew... of various species, who most likely don't have the same dances... dancing in unison and synchronicity. Along with 'dancing' starships.

"Subspace Rhapsody" being a musical was already bad enough, but DANCING WITH THE STARSHIPS?

Just way past the point of ludicrous.

A Fistful of Datas ends with the Enterprise flying off into the sunset. At least "dancing" starships can be explained as fancy flying maneuvers. How does one even have a sunset in space?

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

I didn't notice any

Me neither. I mean if they're going to auto tune why not use it on Mount?

 

[1001001]

Didn't we already have a topic to discus this episode?

Probably two years ago when it came out…

 

[ToddCam]

Jump the shark... what a fun 1990s/2000s term. I wonder if many younger people know what it means, much less the Happy Days reference. I will have to remember to ask my classmates.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

There are shows on the air today, that jumped the shark before the pilot was given the green light to begin production.

 

[1001001]

Jump the shark... what a fun 1990s/2000s term. I wonder if many younger people know what it means, much less the Happy Days reference.

Or that Happy Days lasted for 6 more seasons after that happened?

 

[Tosk]

Or that Happy Days lasted for 6 more seasons after that happened?

"Jumping the shark" has nothing to do with how long a show lasts though.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

Or that Happy Days lasted for 6 more seasons after that happened?

And one more season after the original theme song mix was abandoned, truly the series' greatest crime of all.

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[ToddCam]

"Jumping the shark" has nothing to do with how long a show lasts though.

Yep. I'd say The Simpsons jumped the shark in its 8th season and is on season 36 or something.

 

[Crewman Commander]

I love "Subspace Rhapsody."

 

[ScottJ85]

I thought it was alright. Not sure I'd watch it again but I enjoyed it well enough at the time.

 

[Ghost of the Enterprise-C]

I love "Subspace Rhapsody."

Same here.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Lots of autotune and the songs didn’t do much for me.

I didn't notice any

Autotune (although it wasn't called that when first used, has existed since 1979).

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This album made use of a couple of technical innovations which gave it a unique sound. "I Pity Inanimate Objects" contained a distinctive vocal treatment in which the notes are seemingly obtained by altering the pitch of pre-recorded voices. In an interview for The Idler magazine in 2007, Kevin Godley explained how that song was realized:

Recently, I played I Pity Inanimate Objects from Freeze Frame and I remembered how and why we actually did that. The idea was driven by a new piece of equipment called a harmoniser. It's used in studios all the time these days as a corrective device to get performances in tune, but this early version came with a keyboard. You could put a sound through a harmoniser and if you wanted an instrument or voice to hit a certain note that it hadn't, you could play that note on the keyboard. So we got to thinking, 'Let's forget about singing for the moment. What happens if I vocalize these words in a monotone - do an entire song on one note - and get Lol to play my vocal on the harmoniser keyboard?' That was the experiment. It worked pretty well. Predated Cher's digital gurglings by a few years. I don't know where the lyric came from. Maybe because the harmoniser was inanimate.[3]

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Jump the shark... what a fun 1990s/2000s term. I wonder if many younger people know what it means, much less the Happy Days reference. I will have to remember to ask my classmates.

happy days is a tv show from the early 70s to early 80s that lasted like 13 seasons

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Or that Happy Days lasted for 6 more seasons after that happened?

13 seasons i think

 

[1001001]

happy days is a tv show from the early 70s to early 80s that lasted like 13 seasons

11

 

[Leo Walsh]

I saw about three episodes, I think.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

13 seasons i think

11 total. January 1974 to July 1984.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I was unsure about this episode, but the moment that the singing started (with Spock), I was enthralled. It made me smile throughout, and even moreso with the Klingon boy band. (Then I looked up who played the main Klingon and I was thrilled!) Everyone who had a solo song performed so well and we got more detail on Chapel/Spock than I had anticipated.

I bought the soundtrack and play it often.