Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160425010026/@comment-27257290-20160428134515

Cjtrules15 wrote:

You do understand themes right? Both of your music examples were in ONE episode (If I remember correctly) and was between past events and current events. The same music makes a parallel to both events. It overall makes it a theme of the episode. The songs mean more than just music for the episode. Both of your examples the music plays to convey the emotions between the characters involved. Violet and Henry's song reminds me of Sleeping Beauty's song "Once Upon a Dream". It plays at the beginning and end of the movie as well as the first time Prince Phillip meets Aurora. It connects the whole story and connects the Prince with Aurora. That's what happens in these episodes. Don't worry, I understand themes, but the fact remains that these characters used the same song twice. If I were dating a guy who did that I'd be like "you got any more music?" (And no, Henry's song was played 3 times - the first when showing Violet his iPod, the second when trying to have a date at Granny's, and the third from the jukebox after the curse - but I don't blame him for the third because he didn't remember). I thought this show had better theme devices in store (and it often does). Also I wasn't saying the songs are just "music for the episode", they are songs chosen and played within the episode by the characters, rather than scoring the scenes (I know there's a word for that but I can't remember what it is). The songs used by Henry and Hades have no relevance to Sleeping Beauty because that was a musical, and at the end of the movie it wasn't really there - how would King Stefan's orchestra know what Aurora had been singing in the forest?

Tbh my point was mostly meant as a joke from a realistic POV.