Here's something that's been on my mind, throughout my obsessive listening of the soundtrack for a few days now, hours each day...
Many of the Prometheus themes are so so sad.
This wouldn't really shock me, but I've thought a lot about the Alien movies and maybe our preconceptions of what Prometheus will be, and I have to say that it feels like a very different tone.
Alien was a horror movie. I mean, it scared the shit out of almost everyone that watched it, and the music reflects this. I honestly don't remember being too broken up about the crew getting killed, despite the fact that I liked them, but the point is that the focus was on the horrific and alien nature of the creature and how scary everything was. There was more "oh god, how do we get out of this nightmare" than sad reflections on the loss of life.
Prometheus, on the other hand, has this sprawling revelation to it, and the characters are going to be pressed into making huge, earth-shattering decisions in the midst of this horrible, alien discovery and death. I think the score reflects this heavily, and can't help but feeling this huge sense of something that makes what happens to the crew something that we didn't feel in Alien...
Even Alien3, which is a great basis for comparison though still a superior score, greatly increased the emotional tugging with tracks like Lento and of course Adagio. More human elements...
I don't know, and am gonna stop before the serious rambling begins. What do you guys think of this? How do you feel if you agree or disagree?