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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" (startrek.website)
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Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez

Directed by Eduardo Sanchez

LoglineReturning 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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[–] 23 points 3 years ago (9 children)

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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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    @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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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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