Although I approve of the creation of this thread, that Sideways video sucks. He misunderstands many key parts of the Star Wars scores, is completely clueless as to how themes are used in movies, and has an attitude like a whiny toddler throughout. His hate for the sequel trilogy is clearly blinding him to Williams’ musical genius in the new movies.
A lot of his points land for me, especially the “lifting X-Wings out of water” theme, haha.
Well, almost all of his points crash-land and explode for me. I think Yoda’s theme in TROS was a nice callback, and almost every other point he made about themes “not fitting well” can be easily explained if you look at it for more than one second before dismissing it as trash. Maybe I’m just put off by his whiny voice and unbearable negativity, but it seems like his video is really unfair to all the effort that Williams put into his final score. Singling it out as the only “horrible” score in the entire saga is really doing it a disservice.
Back on track though, I do feel like the scores have some flaws. For one, I was disappointed that the “Anthem of Evil” theme wasn’t featured much in the movie. It got a whole concert arrangement on the soundtrack, but only appeared three times in the entire movie. So maybe it could be added to some scenes featuring the villains, in order to establish it as a theme for Palpatine and Kylo’s collaboration? I’m not sure how I would implement it, just a thought.
I’m not familiar with the track on its own, which scenes does it appear in, and where do you think it could fit?
It appears in three or four places: When Kylo says “My mother was the daughter of Vader”, when Kylo says “the dark side is in our nature” on the Death Star, when Palpatine says “the princess of Alderaan has disrupted my plans”, and when the Final Order destroys Kijimi. Those are the only times it appears in the entire movie.
You can hear the full theme here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi9kKyPJ_00