Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" - eviltoast

Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez

Directed by Eduardo Sanchez


Logline

Returning to a planet that dredges up tragic memories, Captain Pike and his landing party find themselves forgetting everything, including their own identities as he confronts a ghost from his past.

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    1 year ago

    Was the high pitched ringing sound really necessary, especially for that long each time? That almost physically hurt and it scared the fsck out of my cat.

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      @BorgDrone @ValueSubtracted As a person with tinnitus, it seemed important to me. Let me know exactly what was going on. It’s also very common in video games, for example when someone is dazed by a nearby explosion. Again it conveyed a lot of meaning to me and helped explain what they were going through.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but there is a difference between having that sound at low volume for 2 seconds and blasting it through all 10 speakers for 20.

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          1 year ago

          It seemed a perfectly harmless and appropriate volume to me listening on headphones. Perhaps your bass needs adjustment.

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            1 year ago

            It seemed a perfectly harmless

            As someone with tinnitus, it not only hurt, but triggered my tinnitus to be worse for the rest of the day.

            Far from harmless. I had a proper issue with the excessive ringing in this episode.

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      1 year ago

      Haha I kept worrying that my cats and baby would be disturbed by it but fortunately they didn’t seem to react much.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I watched with a loved one who needs hearing aids, and I can vouch that that exact pitch plays havoc with high-tech hearing aids and apparently results in actual physical pain. We finished the episode with the sound way down, reading the captions to understand it. It’s fine for 99% of people but I would have appreciated a warning for the 1% that experienced actual pain from that.