Ray Barnsbury

Yes, as a standalone episode it's fine, and ironically has one of the biggest, most amusingly horrifying shockers of an ending. I always enjoy callbacks to Season 1 too, so it's nice to see everyone's favorite semi-incestuous step-siblings back again. But as you say, it has nothing to do with anything and makes for a bit of a frustrating detour from the main storyline.

Heh...that was my first exposure to a lot of music from Empire too. Hard not to think of it still when I hear those tracks. Anyway, I listened to this score today for only the second or third time ever, and it seems pretty great. The last minute of the finale especially is fantastic. 4 stars.

What, you mean "Exposé" isn't your favorite episode of Lost?!

You and your fanfare fetishes!

Never forget...

Yeah, that and Charlotte remembering Faraday from when she was a child. Dammit!

Haha....probably the safest bet at this point. My brain tends to hurt after too much discussion like what's been going on the last couple pages. Moving past time travel for a moment, I'm really looking forward to this week's episode. Just from the bits I've seen and heard from it, it seems like it could be the type of standout, iconic mid-season episode along the lines of "The Man Behind the Curtain" or "The Shape of Things to Come." Also, it'd be great to get another powerful version of Locke's emotional theme like from Season 1.

Although it involves consciousness time travel as opposed to physical time travel, The Constant introduced this sort of weird paradox idea. Neither Faraday nor Desmond, when they met in 2004, had any recollection of having met in the past. But after Desmond's consciousness traveled back to 1996 and went to see Faraday at Oxford, Faraday suddenly came across Desmond's name in his notebook in 2004. It may be that Daniel's "If it didn't happen, it can't happen" rule isn't completely accurate, and there are actually parallel timelines, with people in the first not remembering "past" events until they happen in the second. Or something like that??

Monica's Theme. Today I'm favoring listening enjoyment over effectiveness.

Original, of course.

You'll find that most people think pretty highly of James Newton Howard's Shyamalan scores...in particular, I'd recmommend Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water. Some Horner ones I think are great include Krull, The Land Before Time, and Glory.

You mean you're not on the JWFan Holiday Gift Exchange List? I got a great Heartbeeps-themed sweater last year.

So you don't get them something for Christmas that they already have. Duh.

Several very straightforward renditions of the main component of her theme (not the secondary seven-note melody Datameister also mentioned) play in "Romancing the Cage" starting at 0:09, before giving way to the love theme at 0:45 (gives me chills!). It also makes a brief, very leitmotivic, appearance at 1:14 in "Flash Forward Flashback." But yeah, "Kate's Motel" is definitely the main representation of it among all the soundtracks.

It's one thing for kids to be restricted in what they share on networking sites. But if your issue is the ease with which potential sexual predators can find you, I don't think adult men have much to worry about. No one's going to see my picture on Facebook, find out that I work at MSU, and then attempt to find and rape me on my way to work.

Sorry, Jaws...

I had bought those for my kids, I should have kept them..... Oh wow! I remember having the T-rex and Pachycephalosaurus from that collection. Good times...

That sounds pretty awesome. Too bad individual tracks aren't available to purchase...

No.

I always assumed the magic box was a metaphor as well. But you never know. Regarding getting the O6 back to the Island,

As good as the Flying Theme is, I vote for Jane Eyre easily because it's just that great.

This is a tough one, but Neverland gets my vote.

I assume you've seen the score for the Overture? Great horn stuff! I'll go with The Cowboys

5 stars! This is as good as Williams gets. It's compelling and purposeful from start to finish, and the "triumvirate" of themes, as Datamaster put it, play off one another brilliantly throughout the score. I'd probably say I like this every bit as much as, or more than, the Star Wars scores.

I was disappointed I couldn't find #61 on YouTube. Flamenco dancing to the Saving Private Ryan score - you can't really beat that.