nxdefiant
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They had most of the big musical tropes, including a rebuke and reprise (nurse chapel and Spock’s subsequent song).
I felt Soong’s song was a direct reference to On My Own from Les Miserable, but that’s a personal favorite of mine so I could be projecting.
Overall, an excellent episode.
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 🤣
Todd Bonzalez is peak comedy.