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For me that moment in 'The Last Jedi' track is one of the most epic in the entirety of Star Wars. So simple but just so effective.
 
I would pair it up with this passage from 'The Spark' (2:16 to the end) as moments that make me appreciate TLJ's score more than others when at first I had thought it was one of the weaker SW soundtracks:
 
 
 

he can put more energy in a piece of music than a roomful of EDM fuckers
 
Golden quote!!

You could also say that Rachmaninoff took it from Wagner...
 
 
...which I'm sure Wagner stole from Beethoven somewhere, etc...

i. e.
 
 

His new score just came out a week ago...
 
 
Karol

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Interesting...I mean, not that we should read too much into these things, but it does strike me as accurate that what Disney would be going for here is a 'fan-servicey' movie. 

Whatever the plan was for the character, in terms of the story as the audience was experiencing it, he certainly was turned into a villain. And a rather one-dimensional one at that (whereas when Lorca was who we thought he was, the character was at least nuanced and existed in a kind of pale moonlight).

It is a very strange choice to me, to make the only truly interesting/dynamic character that has caught on with fans (even those who dislike Discovery) into an all-out villain. Captain Burnham is not going to be particularly interesting if that's what we get. I hope that Lorca is able to have some kind of good arc from here but I fear the dynamic they've set up with him supposedly 'grooming' Burnham means they want to take it to a darker place, leaving them with little option but to kill him off at the end of season.
 
I did enjoy Michelle Yeoh's portrayal of the Emperor in this episode a lot better than I enjoyed her performance in the pilot. 
 
I agree that all of this would be more fulfilling and exciting if we actually felt a bond with these characters already (or for that matter if they felt like a unified crew rather than a group of slightly miserable stragglers). It would also make the Mirror Universe a lot better if it actually contrasted more with the main universe. They never established a nice, wholesome utopian Federation so moving to the MU just doesn't quite feel dramatically different enough.
 

Indeed it is wonderful, and sadly underrated.  The recent Wit version is beyond amazing, and another example of Dvorak excelling at everything.
 

I've never really enjoyed Ottman's scores, it wasn't until Powell's Last Stand that I seriously thought about the music for the franchise and wondered why on earth they didn't stick with him for the rest of the series...
 

I never spend any time trying to understand the nuances or continuity of the X-Men films. It will only lead to disappointment and irreconcilable issues. It is a film franchise in dire need of a massive reboot. I have zero enthusiasm for anything connected to it right now. Except Legion, but that doesn't count. And it's made by Noah Hawley, who is quite possibly a genius.

Directed by the guy who wrote such beloved classics as X-Men: The Last Stand, Chappie, Jumper and 2015's Fantastic Four? Sounds delicious...
 
Karol

I hope the prologue is without narration this time. Bring Aladdin already!

Brilliant! This is my most-wanted Legacy title. Bring on Mulan next! So glad these Legacy releases are available for download.
 
I wonder if they'll fold Intrada's Black Cauldron and Rescuers Down Under (which are now OOP) into this collection at some stage.

Doyle's score to the first Thor movie has some really great stuff in it that has kinda been forgotten. The rousing rendition of Thor's main theme that we get during the end credits is one of the best score moments we've gotten out of the MCU IMO.
 
 

Johnson's Vimeo description says it's actually from December 15, 2016 
 
Maybe November 21 is the date of that version of the edit?
 
 
Yes, "Rian Baby" confirmed!
 
And a couple more tweets on Johnny
 
 

What!? It's such a great theme! It feels exactly like a child's adventure theme, and the fact that it uses almost every note that exists in the scale, plus the ending that sounds like Vader's theme... I find it just perfect. 

the Intendant will kick that entitled Terran's ass!

I think they should have included more of the Ahch-To scenes in the final cut and rather cut parts of the Canto Bight subplot. Rey's visit to Luke feels underdeveloped as it is now.

I'm sure this one has been mentioned already, but 2:13 to 2:44 of Anakin is Free is so effortlessly beautiful. It is a sound that I wish Williams had explored more because he always seems to nail it.
 
 

For me that moment in 'The Last Jedi' track is one of the most epic in the entirety of Star Wars. So simple but just so effective.
 
I would pair it up with this passage from 'The Spark' (2:16 to the end) as moments that make me appreciate TLJ's score more than others when at first I had thought it was one of the weaker SW soundtracks:
 
 
 

To me the score to The Last Jedi far outshines The Post, so I'm happy he was nominated for that one. 
 
Someone above said they gave up on JW winning another Oscar after he did not win for POA. I agree, that AND Memoirs of a Geisha which I believe was two years after....
Exactly! Thank you! His orchestral writing is second to none right now. His orchestrations and and sheer magnitude of some of the writing is mind boggling. I love how he makes the orchestra work, and you can hear how much they love playing it too. A different sound comes out of the orchestra when they are relishing the music in front of them. BTW that is why samples will never truly capture the orchestra. It's the people playing the instruments that give it life! And you can hear it here and in all his Star Wars scores. One of my best friends, Roberto Sorentino, sits 4th chair cello in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. we were talking about the same thing. It's a different energy when they are doing film scores and they get to someone like Korngold, Waxman, or Williams. The writing is on another level and it's doesn't bore them to sleep to play it. Although it reminds me of two years ago when they were on tour in China and he was so jet lagged he fell asleep in the middle of the concert, hahaha. OMG I would have been mortified, lol, but I'm sure it happens to the best of them on tour all the time

I think the reason this series feels a little off to me and not entirely Trek like is that we just didn't get to spend enough time knowing these characters and universe before they were put in really unusual situations.
 
We basically get dumped into a season long story arc with characters we barely know, telling stories that typically Trek won't try to tell until later in the run. We don't even know this vision of the Trek universe yet and we're immediately dumped into the mirror version of it.  Because all these people are in such an extreme, out of the ordinary situation, it's hard gauge their reactions to what's going on because we have no baseline of how they'd act normally.
 
I wish there would have been some more time just getting to know the crew on week to week missions, with perhaps an over riding arc building the background. The relationship between Burnhmam and Georgiou might resonate more if we had gotten an opportunity to see more of it. Imagine if it were Riker who mutinied against Picard and got him killed, how big of an impact that would have had. As it is we barely know Burnham or Georgiou and yet we’re supposed to care when their relationship goes south. 
 
And in addition to not having enough time with the characters, we've barely seen any sign of a wider Federation, and there's no sense that the crew is part of something bigger. Oh, they say the right things, there's a war going on, they listen to Telisian opera, etc. But it feels hollow.
 
The war is mentioned as the back drop, but we don't see much of it. The Klingons are the big enemy, but despite a lot of time them, and all the trouble of those awful subtitles, what they do doesn't really add up to much. Some Klingon characters are made to be a big deal and major adversaries, then they vanish. And before we even care about this war they’re all thrown into the mirror universe. Oh, there's going to be a story with the rebels against the Empire...oh, no wait they're dead now. We only know that "prime" universe Georgiou is a much better person than her mirror counterpart because Burnham tells us, not because we saw much of it ourselves. "Mirror" characters only have meaning if we are really familiar with who the originals are. Now we're being told that the one really interesting character, Lorca, was just a con all along. It's just not well considered story telling or character building.
 
The producers just take it as a given that the audience brings a lot of institutional knowledge about Trek into the show with them, and I suppose that's true. But that's just lazy, and doesn't excuse their responsibility to spend the time building their version of the Trek universe that they expect us to live in.
 
I'm enjoying watching it week to week, and am genuinely interested in how things will turn out. But honestly, this show could have used a season of missions of the week, with character focused b-plots spread throughout so we got time to get to know these people and their universe.  Instead, they just reached for the big stuff right away, and therefore there's no real sense of the stakes involved. It's an entertaining hour (or 35 minutes) of TV, but it doesn't really feel like good Trek or even well considered story telling.

Worse than Thor 2?

he can put more energy in a piece of music than a roomful of EDM fuckers
 
Golden quote!!