A. A. Ron

Just imagine the amazing action cues Williams wrote which we won't get to hear outside of the movie because they won't be on the OST! 

Guys…there’s a (probably) completed 5th Indy score in the world now! 

Maybe he only knew you half as well as he’d have liked.

Maybe he only knew you half as well as he’d have liked.

Maybe he only knew you half as well as he’d have liked.

Maybe he only knew you half as well as he’d have liked.

I think that's wrong. Just because the material is harmonically unadventurous - one's mind wanders to the long monophonic passage at the beginning of act III/scene two of Siegfried - doesn't mean it doesn't forward the storytelling through the leitmotif "language".

I thought he said in the 4th post that he still wanted to do an additional post for every episode (so 8 more).

Well in this show Galadriel is an awful, awful amoral, manipulative, entitled, whiny, self-centered, self-important, empty poxy pseudo-wisdom spouting character who does not care for anything or anyone but her revenge and can't answer a single question with a straight answer (problem with so many other characters in this show as well), so I guess they turned that on its head.  Looks fair but feels foul. Which I guess could be said about the whole show. What a disaster.
 
 

I'd love to know whether he intends to use the same approach for future seasons (i. e. no additional composers, full orchestra for every cue etc.). I hope this is not an off-limit question. 

Per my previous point about how most shows (no matter how good) tend to have rocky starts, I'm sure we will see an improvement from now on, but I pray that they drop the "mystery box" approach immediately. At some point I started to keep track of how many mysteries they introduced, and this is ridiculous.
Ep 1: What is the sigil? What is the sword? Who is The Stranger?
Ep 2: Who is Halbrand? What’s in the pouch? What’s in the box? What are The Stranger’s symbols?
Ep 3: Who is Adar? What are the Orcs after? Who is Isildur hearing? What is the “real Númenor”? What is Míriel so afraid of?
Ep 4: What are the lies Adar speak of? What is Waldreg’s deal?
Ep 5: What are the Mystics, and what do they want with The Stranger? What’s up with the Sauron/sword statue?
Ep 6: What is the history of Adar and Halbrand? Has Adar killed Sauron?
Ep 7: What happened to Isildur? What happened to Celebrimbor? Did the balrog just awake?
Ep 8: No seriously, what’s in the pouch???

I definitely go back to the first movie DE more but my judgement is clouded by what I think of the 2nd movie which, without getting into it, is _nowhere_ near as good as the 1st in my opinion. The 2nd Deluxe is still a good release and a good expansion, whereas the 1st Deluxe was definitely a huge improvement on a technical level over the initial OST release.

Opinions vary, but HTTYD 2 is my all time favorite animated score. Compared to the first, it's bigger, more orchestral and more swashbuckling; very balls to the wall.

Personally, I was mostly able to overlook the bad writing in this series for the first 5 episodes, because I was willing to do that in order to get a bit of Tolkienian atmosphere every week. As such, it's only in the last 2 weeks or so that I've even been complaining about this show. That said, I don't think the fact that people are still complaining after 7 episodes necessarily makes them "trolls" or "haters." In my mind, what makes someone a hater is the way they express their criticisms and how open they are/were to changing their minds.
 
I may not like this series, but I can still admit that it's done some things right. I like the visuals, the casting, the sets, the costumes, the locations... I just think the entire writing staff should be sacked. That's all. If they did that, I could easily see this becoming a show I like in a later season. Maybe it will. Either way, I LOVE the themes Bear McCreary has written for this series and for that reason more than any other, I can't completely begrudge its existence.

Opinions vary, but HTTYD 2 is my all time favorite animated score. Compared to the first, it's bigger, more orchestral and more swashbuckling; very balls to the wall.

Opinions vary, but HTTYD 2 is my all time favorite animated score. Compared to the first, it's bigger, more orchestral and more swashbuckling; very balls to the wall.

What does a non-animated score look like?

Opinions vary, but HTTYD 2 is my all time favorite animated score. Compared to the first, it's bigger, more orchestral and more swashbuckling; very balls to the wall.

Yeah, he probably hates writing Celtic music after doing it for 4 seasons of Battlestar and 6 seasons of Outlander...

Amazon: “we’re not a prequel, we’re doing our own thing and making it our own”
 
Also Amazon: “we are aping absolutely everything from the PJ films and making things look slightly different by using their non Union Mexican equivalents”

That's me waiting for a Star Wars expansion boxset.

It's BRAINSTORM!

A final four covers from "steffromuk" at FSM to complete his Goldsmith at 20th set, including an alternate for Anna and the King!
 

 

 

 

 
So great to have an individual custom cover for each Goldsmith at 20th score now, for iTunes. Hurrah!
 
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