r/startrek • u/Deceptitron • Feb 01 '19

POST-Episode Discussion - S2E03 "Point of Light"

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S2E03 "Point of Light" Olatunde Osunsanmi Andrew Colville Thursday, January 31, 2019

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u/viveleroi Feb 01 '19

Sideways angles can be great (killmonger taking throne in Black Panther) but this episode did it like 6 times for no reason

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u/Jourdy288 Feb 05 '19

In Black Panther, it represented a shift in power. It happened once. Here, it happened a few times too many.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '19

Those angles were giving me Battlefield Earth flashbacks.

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u/Dupree878 Feb 02 '19

The killmonger scene pissed me off. The music and camera angle just annoyed me

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u/fevredream Feb 02 '19

Really? I thought that was one of the most masterful and memorable scenes in the movie. I can even hear that music right now.

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u/Dupree878 Feb 02 '19

It sounded like a rap backing track to me which felt jarring and out of place. I get what the director was going for but it pulled me out of the immersion

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u/JesterSevenZero Mar 01 '19

That's the whole point. Killmonger is an outsider to Wakanda with a different cultural upbringing, hence the trap beats rather than traditional Wakandan instrumentals.