03-31-2009, 05:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2009, 05:53 PM by Hammerskjold.)
Spoilers alert.
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Hendrix's version was the one we hear last for Earth2, but the one that brought the final5 was not Dylan's original, or Hendrix's iirc. It was supposed to be the Earth1's version, but if we're gonna get nitpicky about it, it's probably safer to say it was BSG's own take on it. Or really, the awesome BSG composer, Bear McReary's version.
Aw hell, the man himself can blog it way better than I can even try to summarize.
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164
And his blog entry for the 'Someone to watch over me' episode is worth the read IMO.
Snippet from the blog:
But yeah, good thing you brought up the point of music. Bear McReary's work on the series, absolutely stunning IMO. If the great Visual FX crew responsible for the gorgeous mah lazers go pew pew pew action scenes makes it worthwhile watching the series on a high def large screen. McReary's work makes it worthwhile to listen to the episodes on surround sound, or at least a very good set of headphones.
If we're taking real life disruptions\bad timing into account, the writer strike had something to do with it IIRC. For me, I kinda like the ambiguity raised by Head-Baltar when he refered to Earth1 as the 'real earth'.
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Quote:Do you know what else just dawned on me this morning? The rather ambiguous music that brought the Final Five together ended up being Jimi Hendrix's The Watchtower,
Hendrix's version was the one we hear last for Earth2, but the one that brought the final5 was not Dylan's original, or Hendrix's iirc. It was supposed to be the Earth1's version, but if we're gonna get nitpicky about it, it's probably safer to say it was BSG's own take on it. Or really, the awesome BSG composer, Bear McReary's version.
Aw hell, the man himself can blog it way better than I can even try to summarize.
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164
And his blog entry for the 'Someone to watch over me' episode is worth the read IMO.
Quote: Unless perhaps the show is trying to draw parallels between Earth#1's destiny and Earth#2's; i.e. same music, same ambitions, same humans, same robots
Snippet from the blog:
Quote: I happened to catch Ron Moore in the hallway at Universal and, in a brief conversation, got everything I needed to know. I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the charactersâ universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source. Therefore, I was told to make no musical references to any âEarthlyâ versions, Hendrix, Dylan or any others. The arrangement needed to sound like a pop song that belonged in the Galactica universe, not our own.
But yeah, good thing you brought up the point of music. Bear McReary's work on the series, absolutely stunning IMO. If the great Visual FX crew responsible for the gorgeous mah lazers go pew pew pew action scenes makes it worthwhile watching the series on a high def large screen. McReary's work makes it worthwhile to listen to the episodes on surround sound, or at least a very good set of headphones.
Quote:Was Earth#1 actually suppose to be Earth until the writers decided it didn't quite fit the story they were trying to tell? Take your pick, but I'll keep my own opinion on this to myself.
If we're taking real life disruptions\bad timing into account, the writer strike had something to do with it IIRC. For me, I kinda like the ambiguity raised by Head-Baltar when he refered to Earth1 as the 'real earth'.