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It would be super cool -- and super unlikely -- if they got Williams himself to redo/re-record the theme.
A cool new starting point might have been that Earth is in danger from destruction (fil in your own blank; asteroids, the sun, what ever) and are cast are tasked with finding a new world for human kind of live on, but they get lost in space. Mean while, the clock is ticking down (maybe five years or something) until it'll be too late to save the Earth, so they have to try and get un-lost.
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Personally, I'm optimistic. The teaser was a bit generic, but it gets the job done. I appreciated the short use of the old theme at the end.
And, apparently, Dr. Smith is a woman.
(But I'll bet that no one will be allowed to criticize the change.)
Well, I'd at least hope that anyone who does waits until they can sample the show and see what they think of the character's portrayal. Parker Posey is apparently playing Dr. Smith, and personally I'd be hard-pressed to think of many performers better able to play a combination of neurotic and creepy.
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Lennertz has not impressed me at all in the last five years or so but hey it could happen. Though I'm sure instead of being original he will be in full Williams' pastiche mode doing his best to sound like it, if Netflix will actually set it up for that. Almost none of their TV shows have had decent music except for Godless.
My understanding is that the music was recorded in London with a fairly large orchestra.
I know that Mr. Lennertz is a huge John Williams fan, so I'm looking forward to hearing what he has come up with.
Ford A. Thaxton
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That's the third season theme correct? Playing it again intrigued by the Jupiter 2 design. Looks roundish like the original, but with the Space Shuttle esthetics. Tiles and reaction control thrusters.
Doesn't surprise me, it takes place about 30 years from now.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Wow. I really wasn't expecting anything like that at all. I like it.
Although, Will, it's been a long road...
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Yeah, what Tom said. It starts off with multiple ideas, but fails to find an overarching one. A bunch of rousing chords, really, and less of a coherent theme. And again, there's something very "off" with the orchestration when the JW theme cameo appears.
I'm with Thor on this one. It wasn't terrible...it was a hell of a lot better than Star Trek: Discovery, IMO. But it had similar problems, if less severe.
Lennertz's music doesn't come off as modern generic like Russo's Discovery theme. Instead it came off more like a 90s throwback, like something John Debney might have written for a TV show that decade. Then the transition to and usage of John Williams was clunky to me (though, I reiterate, not nearly as bad as the transition to Alexander Courage in the Discovery opening). I would have much preferred an updated, but faithful arrangement of the Williams theme. Something along the lines of what Brian Tyler did with Morton Stevens's Hawaii Five-O.
I'm still looking forward to sampling this reboot, but I'm not wowed by this. For comparison, the opening sequence to The Expanse blew me away from the get-go.
Yavar
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