From Chris Snellgrove
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If you are a real fan of Ronald Moore Battlestar Galactica Restart, then you know that the real secret weapon of the show is the music. From the opening loans to the very last admission, the composer Bear McCReary delivered killer music, which contributed to bringing the gloomy prediction of mankind to life. While the series itself often focused on high-tech innovations such as The Cylons, the “cylonate topic” from the episode “You Can’t Going Again Home” was expressed. In fact, it was secretly composed with kitchen dishes!
The cylona topic
Battlestar Galactica‘S Music Maestro McCReary described his creative process for the episode, in which metallic sound effects were developed. Conceptively, this was a very suitable idea. In view of the fact that the original cylons climb metal monstrosities, it makes sense that your title song would have metallic effects. What could not predict no fan is the LOFI -like and way how McCReary created this music: “This topic was originally listed with pots, pans and toasters for the metallic effects,” he said.
While “Zylonthema” sounds like a rather integral part Battlestar Galactica‘S tradition, this unforgettable piece of music was only presented, as “You Can’t Go Going Home”, the fifth episode of season 1. Without oxygen. In the meantime, the B-plot Helo follows when he continues to try to survive on the post-apocalyptic planet Caprica with what he thinks is boomer, but is secretly a cylon.
Understandably, the more exciting parts of this episode Starbuck’s life or death-fighter and commander Adama’s tough decisions about the task of fleet resources of their rescue. This effectively formed the moral dilemma of the episode of how many very limited resources for Starbucks should be spent on emergency efforts. What is your life, the episode asked against all of humanity?
The perfect music of the Battlestar Galactica
Despite all this excitement, Helo and his cylon mall are part of the most exciting part of the entire episode with a shootout in a kitchen. And the man behind everyone Battlestar GalacticaThe greatest music was pleased when he saw the scene in question because this scene served a sweet, sweet irony.
Bear McCReary noticed the irony that this legendary piece Battlestar Galactica Music “was composed before I saw” You can’t go home “. Why is that so important? In his words because the episode” contains a scene in which Helo Centurions fights in a café kitchen and balls, Ricochet pots, pans and a toaster! ”
That is correct: he composed a song with kitchen dishes and only later discovered that it was used in an episode with a kitchen dutcht that contained similar blade and clirsch as that in his “cylon topic”. And if you have ever composed some big jams in your own Kitchen with the pans that they are too lazy to actually build them up, just think: they rock into the footsteps of a prime time-emice winner.
Even if you don’t Battlestar Galactica Fan, you are probably familiar with Bear McCReary’s name because he created music for other iconic shows, including Machringe ringsPresent Black sailAnd Outlander and big films like Happy Death Day And Godzilla: King of the monster. The director’s effortlessly visionary music has wondered many fans How He tinkers the type of topics that transport us through time and space. We now have an answer to how McCReary cooks some of these delicious melodies, and that’s in the kitchen.
Where else did you expect?
