mrbenja0618 said:

rpvee said:

mrbenja0618 said:

it's ok to be a drastic variation in this case because technically this would be the first time you hear the theme anyway.

No, it wouldn't be ok. If this is the first time a viewer heard the theme, they'd think it was the actual theme, and then be confused when it's never heard that way ever again.

I'm a little late commenting on this, but seriously just about every theme in Star Wars has a variation. Why would this be any different? Because you're hearing K's version first? Confuse people? How? Sorry, just doesn't make sense to me.

The first time you hear something, you naturally assume that's the definitive version. In playing a variation first, the listener assumes that's the definitive version of this new theme, until it's never heard that same way ever again. Imagine starting A New Hope's crawl with a variation of the Star Wars theme, and then the rest of the movies with how it usually is.