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July 22, 2005
Battlestar Galactica -- Valley of Darkness
Wow. Just. Wow.
What wasn't to like about this episode? We had one contained story arc (the Cylon boarding party) and visited the two other story lines which deepened the character studies in both without significantly advancing the lines. Tyrol is definitely turning into a more serious character and we find new dimensions to Kara. And the mystery deepens about Baltar and the baby he "sees". Each story, too, is directed and shot very differently, heightening the impression of the vast separation from each other of these storylines.
And I'd love to find out about the musical scoring for this season. The opening music is different and the piano solo we hear in Starbuck's eclectic Caprica apartment, which she tells Helo is a recording of her father, is used not only to frame the Caprica scenes but the ending scene of the episode that finds Tigh and Lee trading shots across the still unconscious Adama.
Tigh is given the last line of the episode and one that had me laughing out loud.
As Lee, who has forcefully reminded Tigh that ship is his father's not Tigh's, marches out of sickbay, Tigh looks to sit down next to Adama and mutters, "Thank the gods I never had children."
Posted by Darleen at July 22, 2005 11:06 PM
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During the last season I grabbed a few episodes of BG off of the 'net as I was going on some long plane rides and needed to catch up.
The episodes came off of BBC Sky TV, and they had this same new intro music that the American version now has.
My wife had a theory that in syndication, the American Revolution style fife and drum evoking intro music didn't have the same feeling, so they redid it for non-American rebroadcast. In which case, this year they'd just be making them all the same.
Posted by: David at July 24, 2005 07:09 PM
"the piano solo we hear in Starbuck's eclectic Caprica apartment"
anybody know who the composer of this was or where it can be obtained?
Posted by: Jason W at July 25, 2005 12:56 PM
I wish I knew. I didn't record this episode (and wish I had) - as I'm thinking it would be in the credits. Damn it.
Posted by: Blerm at July 25, 2005 09:31 PM
it was probably written by Richard Gibbs, the composer for the series. i dont know the name tho, try searching under his name or the name of the episode.
Posted by: mike at July 25, 2005 09:48 PM
http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1063536&an=0&page=0#1063536
found a link on the music. philip glass metamorphosis
Posted by: m35514h at July 25, 2005 10:26 PM
Thanks for the link!
Posted by: Jason W at July 26, 2005 11:48 AM
I am so thankful to this site for enabling me to find the name of that song... I watched Battlestar Galactica for the first time last night and was completely haunted by that particular piece. God Bless you all.
Posted by: James at August 17, 2005 06:17 PM