Value SubtractedJul 6, 2023

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

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::: spoiler 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. ::: — Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez Directed by Eduardo Sanchez

Show threadBorgDrone
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.
Jul 6, 2023 at 7:53pmWeb
Show threadSammydeeJul 6, 2023
@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.
Show threadBorgDroneJul 6, 2023
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.
Show threadCeruleanRuinJul 7, 2023
Ooh, look at this guy with ten speakers! Fancy pants over here! : P
Show threadwilliams_482Jul 7, 2023
It seemed a perfectly harmless and appropriate volume to me listening on headphones. Perhaps your bass needs adjustment.
Show threadBorgDroneJul 7, 2023
It’s not the bass that was the problem, it was the high pitched sounds.
Show threadCeeBeeJul 8, 2023

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.

Show threadwilliams_482Jul 8, 2023
Well that definitely sucks. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Show threadpsychothumbsJul 7, 2023
Haha I kept worrying that my cats and baby would be disturbed by it but fortunately they didn’t seem to react much.
Show threadautojournoJul 10, 2023
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.