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Ok I love musicals so was definitely looking forward to this one. Did anyone else find it a little disappointing?
There was a bit too much moping and not enjoy joy, for me. That's what makes a good musical episode so great, they can progress the plot while giving us an over-the-top fun time. But instead we had everyone singing a sad song and then one or two upbeat numbers, none of which were particularly catchy or entertaining. Like, if you've seen it even just once or twice years ago like I have you can probably remember some of the songs from the OG Buffy episode, but we watched this last night and by the end I genuinely couldn't even remember the supposed grand finale song.
Boy band Klingons made the wait worth it, but I spent most of this episode spaced out a bit and just half-listening rather than watching which is the first episode I can say that about.
Shoutout to whoever decided to redo the theme music though, that was inspired.
Also the talk about bunnies has to be a reference to Buffy, right?
Agree. I love musicals (Buffy musical episode, scmigadoom) and was really looking forward to this. The first song I though yes this is great..... but when Una started singing to Kirk I thought meh....and the songs never really got any better. Just got too much into the angst and no joy (except chapels song that was a banger and should have been the tone of all the other songs)
The finale was okay and as plot point great idea and Bruce as singing Klingon great cameo, but by that point I was so down it rushed up too much
I don't love musicals in particular, but aren't anti-musical, and I felt the same. The songs weren't memorable, the numbers were a bit dull, and nobody really danced much except for extras that they hired that were clearly dancers. If you're going to pull of a musical, gotta go big, SNW didn't go big.
Honestly this episode feels written by Sondheim fans more than anything, which is why all the G&S references were so odd to me lol. Definitely less focus on "fun" but I think all the lyrics were really clever and expressive and the way that all of the songs felt like they reinforced character work successfully was a feat even if none of them are particular "catchy" in that ear-worm way. Company is probably my favorite musical of all time but its pretty hard for me to hum you anything off that album
I'm not sure about Sondheim - it doesn't really have his feel and the music and lyrics for the most part aren't as thematically disciplined and crisp as I expect from a Sondheim musical.
The feel was a bit more contemporary pop, like a Pasek & Paul piece.