Rubicon (Page 2 of 5)

true true  fast paced is better indeed and yeh pron holds my interest for a certain amount of time and then it suddenly stops, when u know what i mean 

Yes! I noticed how great the score for the show is. I have to say I like this trend to more production values in other than SFX and casting departments. The Pacific already had big name composers attached and while I don't know who is doing the music for Rubicon (I am too lazy to google it), they are doing their job extremely well.

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

Just checked the second ep, the composers name is Peter Nashel.

And I think that the opening credits are also great, straight from a paranoid mind.

Well, that's why you don't notice it. You don't care. So don't act so suprise

Well, that's the BBC. BBC shows usually have good composers. For example Doctor Who's Murray Gold, who just outdid himself in the fifth season and is the only TV composer I actually own CDs of - an honor reserved for movie composers. (Although that might also be due to TV music not being released on CD as commonly as movie music is nowadays.)

And of course every BBC show has access to their music archive, which - if I'm not mistaken - is the biggest on Earth. Newswipe made a point of this that basically BBC has the licences for most popular songs ever published (except The Beatles, I think) and any show can use any of them. What turns into a serious hussle for any US show - getting the rights for songs, which gets worse the more famous they are - is automatic for any BBC show. They just use them and all is taken care of by some umbrella-agreement the Beeb signed.

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

And what about Bear McCreary?

Well, there not that much drums in Shapes of Things to Come, A Good Lighter, Passacaglia, Elegy etc. But I understand. As for the drums, they really work for me in the action scenes, like for example Prelude To War. I don't know if you're a gamer, but if you have a intense FPS game, then play Prelude in the background while playing (paisleys idea). It's fuckin amazing Oh, and speaking of Roslin & Adama, I think that the best theme of theirs is the first one from S02, Roslin & Adama (d'uh). (Let's not forget about the nice rock pieces like Black Market and Apocalypse).

Sadly, I don't know Robert Duncans work, because I never watched Buffy (was suppose to watch it this summer, but..). Neither I know Desperate Housewives. But please, feel free to throw me a link of two

Fixed. (Ctrl + C really works shity recently).

i like the robert duncan song and the "I am the Doctor" song is also very good.

Hans Zimmer is the man again, he did another great job with the soundtrack for inception

Inception - Mombasa

i also like the song chosen for the Mass Effect 2 Launch trailer whoever that did.

Mass Effect 2 Launch Trailer

Providing her voice and face for all of the fap masters?

So to bring this lumbering beast of posts back on topic, the third episode was again excellent. With each episode I am more and more intrigued about what's going on. The only thing that is bothering me so far is the old black "mentor" - I fear Rubicon won't be stronger than Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey and we all know what happens to mentors ...

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

I finally got around to figuring out who did the music for Desperate Housewives and I was pleasantly surprised that I remembered correctly it was Steve "Transformers" Jablonsky. (Transformers is nothing but early-00s Zimmer brought to perfection.)

The music for that trailer is made by Two Steps from Hell one of many music production houses that sprang up in Hollywood lately, providing original music for trailers and commercials (just like Corner Stone Cues, the makers of the famous "Requiem for a Tower" or Immediate Music). The song in the Mass Effect trailer is called "Legend #1" and Two Steps from Hell did also the breath-taking music for Star Trek's third trailer (it's called "Freedom Fighters").

I honestly dislike this current trend, because while music composed for and specially-tailored to trailers makes them epic, it also makes the music very hard to find. The music production houses usually don't publish CDs of their music and if they do, they are meant for trailer directors and music coordinators, which makes them very expensive and impossible to get. And even if you happen to be so lucky and get your hands on one of them you realize they are filled with 25+ short songs, mostly variations on the same theme or very similar in style - bite-sized chunks well suited for trailers but impossible to listen to (or even choose one to keep from).

You then end up with stuff like the Michael Montes' Canon Rebel commercial music (full song) or Mark Willot's NBA on TNT 2007 commercial music. The former is on iTunes because of its popularity, but I am on the lookout for the song from Mark Willot for three years now ... Where are the days where all it took for a brilliant commercial to re-use pre-existing film music?

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh