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Ezra is a whinny little brat you just want to slap the every loving shit out of for just over half of season one, but he improves around the end and it's pretty much gone by season two.
And if you can around the fact nothing really happens for the rest of the show and it seems to serve as a broader connective tissue to the universe where gaps may be filled in later by other projects that are being planned, and the fucking Force ghost wolves, stick around to the end. Some good stuff.
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The soundtrack for episode 2 is up at iTunes, and sounds like Goransson's musical palette and direction are coming into sharper focus. I like it overall, definitely more than the previous episode. The end title variation on the Mandalorian theme from episode 1 is fantastic. My favorite theme of 2019 so far.
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After hearing the score for episode 2, and putting it into context with that for episode 1, I think that we are going to hear the score develop over the next few episodes, with more the familiar approaches hinted at during the end credits sequences probably showing up when appropriate.
My goodness, that was a long sentence.
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I confess a slight burst of endorphines when that whiny, zigzag theme on low winds played for the first time and reminded me that this was a live-action Star Wars show and I was watching it AGAIN.
Yeah, I'm definitely on board with the theme. Same thing here.
Huge loss of points, though, for failing to include...
I think that's as good a marker as you're going to get that this is a different way of looking at the universe. All to the good, I think.
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Nov 18, 2019 - 12:37 PM
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Erik Woods
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I have no issue with bringing in some new sounds (Williams has done it throughout the 9 films he's scored) and the swashbuckling serial nature of the originals is very much present in this series. I mean, for one, like the serials, this show is a series of episodic adventures. 
The one major issue I have with it, is not so much deviating away from the established template, is hat the music, IMO, is a lot less interesting with the modern scoring tropes thrown into the mix and not having them do anything terribly interesting. The first major action sequence we get, albeit very short during the opening bar fight, features rather dull generic music that is a better fit for a trailer than a Star Wars show; growling synths, pounding drums.
And then we get to the other action cues, and they too are rather dull and have nothing really to say. They just ostinato chug their way through the scene without any depth or emotion,
And then COMPLETELY disregarding The Force Theme, arguably the MOST emotion theme from the entire saga, during that one moment in episode 2... well, for a show that's oozing out nostalgia one scene after another, completely ignoring the legacy themes seems rather silly, especially since they resonate so much not only with film music fans but with fans of Star Wars.
My two cents.
-Erik-
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