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The real question is, was Batu an uncredited co-composer on JW's theme for Batuu?

What's amazing about this score is that many of its best moments (revealed even more clearly in this expansion) are instances of Powell doing something interesting with some element of Williams' Solo theme. It's like the entire composition was Matrix-uploaded into Powell's brain, as second-nature to his thinking as anything he'd written for the film himself. Almost every cue has an example of this somewhere. Heck, even the transformation of the Imperial March for "Mimban" is a great example. I really really hope we get another John Powell Star Wars score―preferably with another Williams co

The opening notes of the main melody sounded a little too reminiscent of one of his Jurassic World themes to me at first, but as it goes on, it's lovely, patriotic, and emotional. I'll be curious to hear the theme stretch its legs in an action-music context elsewhere in the score. Great to have this franchise honoring its roots like this!

OK, I figured out what I want JW to compose next: a suite of concert arrangements of Powell's themes from Solo. The circle will be complete!

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/1dd615d9-dbcb-4eb5-a220-3821b6529447

Is "Extra Deluxe Mine Mission" just "Mine Mission" plus "Break Out"? Or is there something new in there?

The whole existence of this edition is a eucatastrophe in my book, and I'm particularly thrilled to know which cues were JW's, in whole or in part. It does make the plot thicken in my head, though. Did JW and JP sit down and spot the movie together? Did JW do it alone and just "claim" certain scenes (or even, apparently, segments of scenes) for himself? Did that serve as stylistic inspiration for Powell's approach elsewhere, in a more specific way than just imitating Williams' general Star Wars style? For the cues that were partially composed by Williams, was this because of later changes

Oh, yeah, I definitely hear it. For that matter, the opening percussion of "Lions Reign" is very similar to the percussion that kicks off "The Egg Travels." Again, it's more textural than anything. Cool!

Thanks for the thread on one of my most favorite Special Topics in Film Music! I voted for Treasure Planet just because it's such a criminally underrated film, and the score is one more well-oiled cog in the machine. The production design in that movie is freaking visionary―honestly, I defy you to find a major-studio animated film from the past 30 years that's as bold and original in its designs as that one. They had a concept and committed to it 1,000 percent. And the score is just a fantastic seafaring adventure score. Minus the theremins for Martin Short's B.E.N. and the guitars for Ji

The more I think about it, the more I think this was a smart way to approach the sensitive subject of when and where to use Williams, particularly given that the easiest theme to justify using in Season 1 would have been the Force theme, which has been exceptionally well-worn in recent years. I'm just as glad we didn't get a "Binary Sunset" quote to accompany the floating mudhorn, for example. (And Giacchino emphasized the potential pitfalls of putting that theme in another composer's hands.) This Easter egg may have been specific and nerdy enough to open the door to other not-s

I heard that MOTR quote instantly, too. What an odd choice. That’s not even close to being the Resistance. Those guys would maybe have kids in the Resistance. It’d be just as appropriate or more to reference the Rebel fanfare. Oh well. It was fun. Actually, I say do more of this. It’s a better tune than anything else in this series, and this kind of referencing would manifest musically what every other aspect of the series does: traffic in Star Wars iconography and tropes without really creating any cohesive new vision as yet.

@The Big Man, can you elaborate on your adulation for those waveforms? I'm a waveform neophyte, and I'm curious what makes those indicative of particularly good...mixing? Mastering? I don't even know enough to know which term to use.

Hahaha, thanks, @gkgyver and @Arpy. Good point. That makes me feel better

Wow, as a Giacchino fan, I find that both crushingly disappointing and utterly perplexing. He doesn't sound like any of those scores to me, and I thought (think?!) of him as a champion of melodic tonality in the face of currents that favor the likes of Joker and Arrival.

The "Across the Stars" single confirms visually what we already knew: that ASM is now the sole fixation of JW's brain. She has taken root like an extra lobe and is now sprouting poofy purple synapses of her own.