I remember the BSG podcast/DVD commentary that Ron Moore used to put out. Ron would let you know which scotch he was drinking and would get into some of the nitty gritty stuff from filming. Even now and again his wife would pop in. It was fun and he used to respond to fan comments from the Sci-fi message board.

I do think he set the bar for how television scores are done now. A lot of shows in early the 00’s had recycled music from previous projects; SG1 used music heavily from the movie throughout the series but tried to mix it up from time to time or just a copy paste X theme for every episode, ie most procedurals. Bear really stepped up the composing for each episode and worked on establishing leitmotifs and evolving them as the series went on.

I don’t have Prime so I haven’t seen the show, but I have listened to the soundtrack because Bear did it and it’s very good. All of his scores tend to be very solid.

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