Things I Will Miss About Disco
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Saru was one of the best parts of Disco
I'll miss Michael. I'll miss all the characters. I'll miss the unique stories Discovery tells. This is one of my favorite Star Trek shows and my favorite of the new crop, and I'll be sad when it's last episode airs, but at the same time I'll be happy to have taken this incredible journey with this incredible series.
Things I will miss about Disco....
1. Theme music
2. Saru
3. Nothing else.
4. Nothing else.
5. Nothing else.
1. Theme music
2. Saru
3. Nothing else.
4. Nothing else.
5. Nothing else.
I'll miss Zora, Saru, Philippa, Osyraa who I felt was really wasted and could have been written better, Book, and the Culber Stamets dysfunctional family.
is there a theme in that music?
Ha! This is not so much a DSC problem as it's a trend in modern film and TV soundtracks....there aren't themes, so much as repeating ostinato (the same rhythmic/melodic pattern over and over) with chords to create color/vibes. The themes, to the extent they exist are usually just a few notes and sort of flit in and out of the texture. Eventually I'm sure the pendulum will swing back and we'll get more melodic approaches again. I look forward to that because I think the melodic approach creates much more memorable and identifiable music to go with the shows/movies and something is missing without them.
very true. A lot of modern film music sounds so generic.
Yeah...and then you compare them with with earlier film scores and it's even more stark. Example: John Williams's Superman march is very melodic and heavily polyphonic with interesting harmonic lines and memorable themes...and Hans Zimmer's from Man of Steel which is just loud bass pedal tones, a college ear training class interval exercise on top, accompanied by crazy percussion. Zimmer's isn't "bad" in that he was intentional about what he did and it's good in its own context I suppose, but it's not very memorable or interesting from a musical standpoint.
indeed…And even when there are themes (SNW, Lower Decks, Picard) they kinda seem to riff on preexisting stuff, without being particularly memorable on their own.
To prevent unnecessary osservations, Picard’s theme in season 1 is very memorable, but it’s pretty much a reworking of Kamin’s son melody from Inner Light, then in season 2 they totally messed it up to make it “exciting” and they used the First Contact theme instead for season 3.
I once posted a musical analysis of the Lower Decks theme, showing how it lifts heavily from many past Trek melodies, ending up being pretty much a collage of past Trek themes (with the occasional Star Wars or The Orville bit thrown in!).
And Strange New World…well, it’s like they tried to do a version of the TOS theme without actually playing the TOS theme.
Compare all this with the wonderful work Giacchino did on the Kelvin movies (speak about memorable themes!), or of course the composers of the previous Trek melodies, and the difference is starking.
A notable exception is of course Prodigy, whose theme was written by Giacchino and where the incidental music is still often written in that vein.
Absolutly nothing.
Pretty much everything.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was in the Starfleet Academy show.
