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That first season is neither bad nor good. Some awesome highlights, some cringeworthy moments but overall I'm still enjoying it. I will watch season 2 as I think what needs to be fixed is actually the simple thing to fix: uninteresting characters and plot (sometimes). And I'm not talking about it with regard to Tolkien material. Never read any Tolkien book so I don't care. But here is a quick example with episode 7.
 
How on earth, in a post-GoT world, can you have a volcanic eruption and conveniently have no main characters die? I'm not asking for a GoT-like bloodbath but I want to feel like characters are heroic BUT can sometimes fall. I want to feel like there is a real danger and risk. When the episode started I said out loud "I "hope" someone relatively important dies to show what's at stake and how the creation of Mordor was a pivotal moment.". But I had a feeling no one would die, not even characters badly wounded in prior episode…
 
And that's my issue with this show. It's not "realistic" to me. Of course it happens a lot in movies and TV shows, of course things don't need to be realistic. But when you are telling a story of battle against good and evil I expect casualties in the good camp, and not just from random characters, because it's a hard fight.
 
When Theo started looking for his mother I said out loud to my friends "Wait for a "Theo!" scream in 1 minute". Sure enough, it came. From a magically alive, not injured and perfectly fine Bronwyn. Given it was a main character but not the most important one, I think it would have made sense for her to have died in the volcanic eruption. It would also have created a great character arc for Theo where he could feel guilty of having given the sword "for nothing". But nope, all characters are mostly fine. Then isildur… how on earth can they pick ISILDUR to play the "will he be alive" card when it's the one character we're SURE won't die now…
 
Is it bad? No. Was I expecting something different? yes.
 
 

It’s funny how critics like to point out when a Williams score isn’t instantly memorable while praising any other sound design-y score by other composers.

It’s funny how critics like to point out when a Williams score isn’t instantly memorable while praising any other sound design-y score by other composers.

It’s funny how critics like to point out when a Williams score isn’t instantly memorable while praising any other sound design-y score by other composers.

It’s funny how critics like to point out when a Williams score isn’t instantly memorable while praising any other sound design-y score by other composers.

Holy temp track, Batman!
 
 
 

Looking forward to Scherzo for Tuk-Tuk and Orchestra

Rogue nation is one of my favorite MI movie while Fallout is the one I almost fell asleep watching it, despite it being shot 1km from where I live. The music certainly did not help. I have NOTHING against balfe. I juste Prefere Kraemer style.
Somehow, It would not surprise me if this ended up with Zimmer.

well as lovely as it is it's not very hummable 

You could tell someone this piece was from Raiders, TOD or TLC, and no one would question it. It sounds so Indy.

It's supposed to be the track "Godzilla!" From Alexandre Desplat and starting at 0:36. 

It's supposed to be the track "Godzilla!" From Alexandre Desplat and starting at 0:36. 

Oops. My bad then  Thanks!

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers. 

It cannot solve the screenplay but that 4K release at least solved one major issue with the movie and it's way more acceptable look-wise now.

That's not what I said and that's not how I think about scores . It's my first post in this topic since the score has been released and I love reading different opinions on scores. It's actually fascinating to read everyone's opinion in here and you can feel the passion revolving around the LOTR scores and movies. But I would love for us not to be too judgmental with each other just because we like a specific score or not.
 
 
Completely agree on this! 

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers. 

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers. 

I wasn’t specifically calling you, toothless out, I was generalizing the feel I get here sometimes.
 
The only statement of yours, and I tried to quote it, was the “I would be happy if more films and TV had this kind of score” because I… wouldn’t be.
 
and I use passionate language because I am a passionate person but I truly don’t think less of people who like this score. Merely confused by how much everyone seems to like it. The comments that are variations of “well how often do we get this many themes/this much music” or “it could be worse” also bother me but I’m not judging anyone past being reasonably confused.
 
If this score didn’t have LOTR attached to it, I still wouldn’t like it all that much. Minute by minute it just doesn’t sound fresh or exciting for me at all. This would be average for me no matter what

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers. 

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers. 

Does it sound like shore? No. Is it as good as the LOTR scores? No. Was there any chance the answer to these two questions would be yes? No. Does it make this score bad? No. 
 
I find this score to be very very solid and  I would gladly sign for every TV show, hell, even most of movies to have such quality material. Sure we can debate about the sound mix and the most modern colors here and there. 
 
But we are clearly listening to something that was well prepared and well thought out. I will wait for the show to see how it works in context. 
 
I was highly skeptical when I first heard the two themes released a while ago but I’m in a way more positive state of mind now that I listened to the whole album. 
 
It’s not perfect for sure but still. I think McCreary did a good job on this one (way WAY better than in Foundation).
 
Of course and despite saying the contrary, they are trying to sell this show as part of the same vein as the Peter Jackson movies. But it’s not. We just have to accept it’s not and judge everything on its own.

Im optimistic about the music treatment.  And very very cautiously optimistic for the show despite some eye rolling stuff I saw in the trailers.