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I met Cameron a few years ago at a scoring workshop in New York, he was 15 at the time and blew everyone away with his skill. I thought I was going to be the biggest Williams fan there until I met him! Great to see his music shared here, he's very driven and very talented and a really nice guy. I hope to hear more of his his own personal style develop and mature, but have no doubt that will happen.

I give you Cameron Moody...
And here he is conducting his own piece.
 
 

I dunno, the "One Shot" example posted above feels more a modernaized low version of the Raiders intro to me..
Favorite version: Elfman
 
Favorite Silvestri version:
 
 

My favorite cue in all of the MCU:
 
 

I think Dennis McCarthy's Star Trek Generations score doesn't get enough love. The new theme he wrote has a wonderful, adventurous, almost seafaring sound to it. He wrote beautiful renditions of it through out the score that range from adventurous to heroic and noble to sad. And the few times he quotes the Trek theme, he weaves it seamlessly with his new theme. 
 
I also enjoy the more intimate music for Picard and the immense sadness and yearning for family that he experiences in the film.

The bad guy/gal music in this episode was awful. 

I think Dennis McCarthy's Star Trek Generations score doesn't get enough love. The new theme he wrote has a wonderful, adventurous, almost seafaring sound to it. He wrote beautiful renditions of it through out the score that range from adventurous to heroic and noble to sad. And the few times he quotes the Trek theme, he weaves it seamlessly with his new theme. 
 
I also enjoy the more intimate music for Picard and the immense sadness and yearning for family that he experiences in the film.

I think Dennis McCarthy's Star Trek Generations score doesn't get enough love. The new theme he wrote has a wonderful, adventurous, almost seafaring sound to it. He wrote beautiful renditions of it through out the score that range from adventurous to heroic and noble to sad. And the few times he quotes the Trek theme, he weaves it seamlessly with his new theme. 
 
I also enjoy the more intimate music for Picard and the immense sadness and yearning for family that he experiences in the film.

I think Dennis McCarthy's Star Trek Generations score doesn't get enough love. The new theme he wrote has a wonderful, adventurous, almost seafaring sound to it. He wrote beautiful renditions of it through out the score that range from adventurous to heroic and noble to sad. And the few times he quotes the Trek theme, he weaves it seamlessly with his new theme. 
 
I also enjoy the more intimate music for Picard and the immense sadness and yearning for family that he experiences in the film.

The bad guy/gal music in this episode was awful. 

Having listened to it more, my thoughts haven't changed. It's a good piece representing Obi Wan at this stage in his life. But it is a slight theme. The piece doesn't have a great structure or exciting variations. It feels pretty by-the-numbers for JW. A minor SW theme to add to his canon.

Having listened to it more, my thoughts haven't changed. It's a good piece representing Obi Wan at this stage in his life. But it is a slight theme. The piece doesn't have a great structure or exciting variations. It feels pretty by-the-numbers for JW. A minor SW theme to add to his canon.

Maybe this is a hint, that this piece is actually about the resurrection of Obi-Wan, transformation from Ben back to Obi-Wan. Something like that. 
Or maybe it is because of the missing B-section in the theme. Not worth the effort having two words then in the title.
 

Does anyone else find it weird that the piece is simply titled 'Obi-Wan'? Not Obi-Wan's Theme or The Return of Obi-Wan or anything else more similar to past JW themes? It's like the title itself is kind of an afterthought? It seems very unlike JW. I was expecting something more like The Adventures of Han or Rey's theme.

Spielberg has hours upon hours of recording session footage that could be worked into a documentary along with footage from the behind the scenes featurettes for JW scores over the years. Between Spielberg and Lucas Films, there is more than enough footage.

Spielberg has hours upon hours of recording session footage that could be worked into a documentary along with footage from the behind the scenes featurettes for JW scores over the years. Between Spielberg and Lucas Films, there is more than enough footage.

Spielberg has hours upon hours of recording session footage that could be worked into a documentary along with footage from the behind the scenes featurettes for JW scores over the years. Between Spielberg and Lucas Films, there is more than enough footage.

Spielberg has hours upon hours of recording session footage that could be worked into a documentary along with footage from the behind the scenes featurettes for JW scores over the years. Between Spielberg and Lucas Films, there is more than enough footage.

I should start by saying that on Last Fm, I have more plays on the theme than anyone else in the world and it's only been 2 days.

Obi-Wan is my favorite character in all of fiction so I've been waiting for him to get a proper theme for years. When I heard John was gonna do it, I nearly teared up. My expectations were high.

I'm the kind of girl who vibes with music rather easily, but this was something else. I first heard it from a leaked video of the live performance from Celebration. But hearing the official recording, my heart flew a thousand miles per hour after listening to it. With film music, this has only happened to me 3 times; The first two being when I heard Rey's Theme and The Adventures of Han for the first time. Everything about Obi-Wan's Theme just clicks for me and I haven't gotten tired of it at all despite the obscene amount of times I've heard it already.

I learned on Friday that John Williams said he intends to retire from film scoring after he finishes The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones. If he follows through, this theme is his official good bye to the franchise. And it's one hell of a good bye at that. My favorite piece of Star Wars TV music by far.
Fr. I don't see any problem with him writing this quickly. It's not like he's scoring the entire show. Plus he just started working on The Fabelmans and is STILL working on Indiana Jones. We're lucky he made this at all.

I agree the arrangement is structurally boring. It reminds me of Anthem of Evil and other secondary JW themes that kinda of just run their main idea through a few motions and that's it. 

Looking at this piece alongside all of his other Disney era contributions, I can very easily see where this might fall on the lesser end of that spectrum for many. Some users have made the point that this specific period in Obi-Wan’s life, and by extension this time in the Star Wars universe, doesn’t really quite lend itself to that classic Star Wars sound. The opportunities for those celebratory brass fanfares to shine through are decidedly a little more barren this time around.

I posit that Williams could have written something that would have been more of a crowd pleaser but I think doing so would have betrayed what the theme needed to be for the story as he understood it. It ultimately comes down to, in my eyes, effectiveness versus accessibility. This theme I think is very effective at conjuring up, with startling accuracy and nuance, the multiple feelings as they would describe the character as the show finds him now. What cost that comes with I think is accessibility. A bittersweet theme without resolution meant to define one of the most iconic heroes ever created is a hard pill to swallow. The feelings it creates aren’t that accessible. It’s not something I think most people would want to let wash over them, and I totally get that. But it’s how well that emotional depth, for me, is realized that makes me want to keep coming back to it.

Heroics, mysticism, tragedy, tinges of sadness, and a little bit of hope. It’s all in there. You get all those feelings in 4 minutes. None of them ever really dominate, they all kinda coexist in there. And you know what all those kinda sound like to me?
 
That sounds like Star Wars, baby.

You seem a little fixated with Holt's gender. Plenty of men write passable soundtracks, including for other Disney+ shows and their work hasn't been rejected. The fact that you haven't watched the show but are willing to make the judgment and assumption that had Holt been male her score would have been rejected is really something.

You seem a little fixated with Holt's gender. Plenty of men write passable soundtracks, including for other Disney+ shows and their work hasn't been rejected. The fact that you haven't watched the show but are willing to make the judgment and assumption that had Holt been male her score would have been rejected is really something.

To me this theme is really a tone setting piece more than anything.