Torchwood, Star Trek and the Soundtrack as character

[alasdair1076]

   Something occurred to me watching Torchwood: Children of Earth last week.  In fact, a lot of things occurred to me, most of which I talked about here.

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[jaxotea]

The use of music and sound tracks is something I've been paying more attention to recently. Don't get me wrong I've always listened to the soundtracks and I have bought loads over the years. I mean more of the stuff you are talking about, the less obvious impacts of use.

It started when Ronnie Hazlehurst died (an old British theme tune writer) and a talking head complained that TV series didn't write theme tunes any more.

At the time I thought that was a stupid comment, there are plenty of good themes out there, but Heroes was huge and it had a very minimalist opening title sequence, and many programs were shortening the titles to get more plot in.

The thing is that even those very short titles can say a lot and express a lot, especially as the establishment of the story/characters, the slant of the programme are explored. I keep thinking about the title to The Mentalist, in contrast to Heroes.

(sorry I realise how waffly and badly expressed this is...god I wish I could write.....)

Anyway, I've not seen TW:CoE yet (recorder barfed) so I can't comment on the specifics but I know exactly what you mean.