They could start by firing Russo and getting someone like Trevor Morris or Brian Tyler.
A little late now, though.
The music on Star Trek Discovery
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A little late now, though.
Yeah, we got bookends there. No melody to speak of.
Why not? I can hum the Game of Thrones theme and everyone recognizes what I'm humming. Should be the same with DIS.
DSC's theme bored me to death.
Generic, no real melody, unoriginal, playing it safe.
I'm watching iZombie right now:
Given that DSC is a Trek show I expect the dialogue to not be nearly as entertaining as iZombie either. The theme music makes me imagine yelled shield percentages.
It's amusing to compare actually. Looking at the DSC cast I also wish any of these actors seemed even remotely as fun as Rose McIver and David Anders.
Generic, no real melody, unoriginal, playing it safe.
I'm watching iZombie right now:
Given that DSC is a Trek show I expect the dialogue to not be nearly as entertaining as iZombie either. The theme music makes me imagine yelled shield percentages.
It's amusing to compare actually. Looking at the DSC cast I also wish any of these actors seemed even remotely as fun as Rose McIver and David Anders.
The Orville theme sounds like Galaxy Quest, or like the unused TNG theme. It prefers cheese to nuance. The DSC theme is probably too far in the other direction, along the lines of the Berman approach to music as it lacks a hummable melody.
But the DSC theme does at least have some urgency to it, and sounds like it will pair nicely with the visuals of a title sequence. I picture titles in the font and style of the "Ten Years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise" with maybe gold bands, similar to the uniforms diagonally wiping against black for the credits, perhaps with cast or ship shots, panning across the screen.
If you sync up the YouTube video with this video of the new Cosmos titles sequence, it works perfectly. Start the Cosmos titles below when the YouTube video is at exactly 00:38, when the music starts.
But the DSC theme does at least have some urgency to it, and sounds like it will pair nicely with the visuals of a title sequence. I picture titles in the font and style of the "Ten Years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise" with maybe gold bands, similar to the uniforms diagonally wiping against black for the credits, perhaps with cast or ship shots, panning across the screen.
If you sync up the YouTube video with this video of the new Cosmos titles sequence, it works perfectly. Start the Cosmos titles below when the YouTube video is at exactly 00:38, when the music starts.
I prefer the actual Cosmos theme.
One of the interesting things about the DSC theme song video is that we do get to see a bit of the screen they're scoring to. It's possible this is the titles sequence. If so, it looks like live action shots of characters, rather than space shots.
Yeah, the Cosmos theme is lovely, that show was very good at the 'goosebumps effect'. I'm not getting that from Discovery yet, if I'm honest.
My point is that I think they're pretty similar in that the Cosmos theme is clearly a score of the imagery on screen, rather than a distinctive song in its own right. I have a feeling that the DSC theme will work with imagery on screen, more than it will as a song.
We'll know one way or another in a week and a half.
We'll know one way or another in a week and a half.
The theme really moves me in an unexpected way. *flushes* At least it is over quickly, doesn't keep stinking for very long.
Finally! The voice of reason! Thank you!
This captures my feelings on the subject pretty well. We've only got the raw orchestral footage combined with an interview for now, so I'm eager to see what they do with the complete package.
Didn't listen to it all day, just put it up again... and I must say, I'm back to loving it again..!! In fact, I think Jeff did something ingenious with it..! It's just 8 notes really, 4 blocks of two, and while I thought it was TOO simple at first, I now feel as though it was intentional and boy, will this theme work GREAT within scenes..! Just like Michael Giachino effectively inserts his theme throughout the Kelvin films, I really hope Jeff will do the same with his theme..!
God, I HOPE not.
Honestly. it sounded more 'Galaxy Quest' then Star Trek (not that that's a bad thing). I liked Orville enough to keep watching it, but nothing struck me as either spectacular or 'doing Star Trek better than Star Trek'.
I was happy to see the characters are more in the vein of TOS than TNG - but considering they want to play some stuff comedically, you couldn't do that effectively if they were the 24th century 'Utopian' character types from TNG - they'd be too well-adjusted mentally and socially <---- And that's not what the Orville is going for (which is good.)
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For a show called Discovery, this theme doesn't seem to actually go anywhere. I like the bookends, though, particularly the surprising opening. Plus it's a little better on second listen!
Over the credits it might be a winner but I don't know yet.
Over the credits it might be a winner but I don't know yet.