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Post by mattw65 on Jan 22, 2005 5:22:44 GMT -5
hey blade runner, are there any more songs from the mini you can offer up? iver been playing this one song for like a week and a half straight!!! lol Me too, that and the two theme tunes. |
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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 22, 2005 5:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by starbuck13 on Jan 22, 2005 7:17:17 GMT -5
i get an error with that
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Post by mattw65 on Jan 22, 2005 7:19:28 GMT -5
Me too! But Blade did say "if you have emule then" |
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Post by starbuck13 on Jan 22, 2005 7:22:43 GMT -5
what the heck is emule?
more importantly, do they have it for a mac?
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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 22, 2005 10:33:25 GMT -5
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Post by starbuck13 on Jan 22, 2005 13:12:58 GMT -5
ok so i downloaded that. now what? the link still doesnt work or anything
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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 22, 2005 13:18:58 GMT -5
ok so i downloaded that. now what? the link still doesnt work or anything Edonkey needs switching on and configuring first  |
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Post by MHall on Jan 23, 2005 18:53:44 GMT -5
You have no doubt noticed noticed that the "Previously on Battlestar Galactica" line is spoken by different people each week. Also, the key of the music varies. Below is a list in the form of... episode number: key person (episode name) 01: C3 Commander Adama (33) 02: G2 Roslin (Water) 03: C4 Six (Bastille Day) 04: G2 Starbuck (Act of Contrition) 05: C4 Apollo (You Can't Go Home Again) 06: C4 Boomer (Litmus) 07: C4 Baltar (Six Degrees of Separation) 08: C4 Zarek (Flesh and Bone) 09: C4 Tigh (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down) 10: C4 Apollo (The Hand of God) 11: G2 Roslin (Colonial Day) 12: C4 Zarek? (Kobol's Last Gleaming part 1) 13: C4 Commander Adama (Kobol's Last Gleaming part 2) Edit: info for 13 added. I think episode 12 is not introduced by Zarek, but then who? Does the musical key or the "previously person" have any meaning? When I first noticed the rise in pitch of the introductory song from episode 2 to 3, I thought the pitch was going to keep rising the whole season, which would have been a cool way to build tension subconsciously. But darn, it didn't happen that way. All the episodes' introductory music segments are keyed in either G2 or C4, except the first one, which is in C3 and which is different. (I'm judging primarily by the piano's da-dadada-da-dadada.) I am not a musician, so excuse me if I am speaking sloppily. In case you are even less musically minded, note that relative to G2, C4 is a full octave plus a step higher. Maybe G2 episodes are when the Colonials suffer a major setback, and C4 represents a Colonial victory? For G2 episodes, 2,4,11... Begin spoiler. Water was blasted to space, 20 pilots killed and Starbuck was MIA, cylon agent was elected vice president.
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Post by MHall on Jan 23, 2005 18:59:37 GMT -5
(Powers That Be, note that the spoiler thing wouldn't shut off, so I had to break this into a second post...)
Or, Roslin got a G2 note both times... G2=Cylon? Roslin and Starbuck are Cylons???
Any other possible patterns?
For the most part, the person with the biggest role that week gets to say, "Previously on Battlestar Galactica." Exceptions are 8 and 12, but maybe 12 is not Zarek. Also, 5 is really the Starbuck show, but Apollo has a huge role that week and Starbuck just got to say the line the previous week.
The above is all for the UK. What about the US?
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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 23, 2005 19:31:13 GMT -5
When I first noticed the rise in pitch of the introductory song from episode 2 to 3, I thought the pitch was going to keep rising the whole season, which would have been a cool way to build tension subconsciously. But darn, it didn't happen that way. All the episodes' introductory music segments are keyed in either G2 or C4, except the first one, which is in C3 and which is different. (I'm judging primarily by the piano's da-dadada-da-dadada.) I am not a musician, so excuse me if I am speaking sloppily. In case you are even less musically minded, note that relative to G2, C4 is a full octave plus a step higher. Maybe G2 episodes are when the Colonials suffer a major setback, and C4 represents a Colonial victory? For G2 episodes, 2,4,11... Even the pitch of the actors voice is higher in "Water" especially in the card game between Baltar and Kara. we will have to look into the spoiler problem, we only got it today and I know it's a new thing for proboards to have so it's probably quite buggy  |
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Post by MHall on Jan 25, 2005 8:21:40 GMT -5
I added the info for episode 13 in my post above. Does it fit the proposed pattern? Commander Adama is certainly one of the central characters in this episode, though Boomer had a bigger role. And with the higher pitched piano in the intro, was it indeed a Colonial victory? As with all things in Battlestar Galactica, it's just not clear!
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Post by Ziptie on Jan 25, 2005 13:46:33 GMT -5
Lol, I suspect you are turning an unintentional technical glitch into a creative decision there! Exactly, the audio pitch of the entire episode is off. Same is true if you compare episodes 10 and 11. I haven't been keeping a close eye on the broadcasts, but I suspect that the changes in theme key are actually unintentional, and are caused by inconsistent pitch correction applied as a result of frame rate conversion. One imagines that BSG's post work and editing is conducted at 29.97fps, either in NTSC or (hopefully) Hi-def, and conformed to PAL at 25fps for UK consumption. The frame rate conversion will skew the audio pitch, just like cinema films converted to PAL video. It seems like either Sky, or NBC/Universal, haven't applied pitch correction uniformly across the series. The fact that the pitch of the entire episodes are out lends weight to this theory. If the theme was deliberately being transposed, you would expect the rest of the episodes to be consistent. |
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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 25, 2005 13:52:44 GMT -5
I think they've speeded the episode up so they can fit the adverts in
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Post by Ziptie on Jan 25, 2005 15:10:42 GMT -5
Not sure whether you were being serious, or being , but if the former, that doesn't make sense. For starters, Sci Fi broadcasts adverts, so chances are that the running time of the episodes would have been pretty near the mark when they arrived on these shores. If you're suggesting that Sky time compress the episodes so they can run even more adverts than the US, again this doesn't make sense, given the running time of the episodes themselves, and the fact that time compression of this sort would raise the pitch rather than lower it, as well as likely introduce some noticeable visual artifacting due to frame blending/skipping |
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