Watching Andromeda

For research purposes, but also because, in common with (EDIT: almost) nobody else ever, I like it.

And yet, once again, I am brought face to face with the inexpressible...naffness (there really is no other word) of the first season opening music. This was apparently composed by Alex Lifeson, guitarist of the band Rush, so at very least it should have been big and swelling and impressive. I read somewhere he used twenty thousand layered guitar tracks, which if true can only give rise to the question "where did they all go?"

Say your friend Hamish the bagpiper arrives unexpectedly at your doorstep. He's got a wedding to play and he's very nervous about a particular passage. He asks if he can use your loo and you direct him to the one on the second floor (third for Americans). While locked in there, he limbers up and begins to practise two lines of music over and over again. And what you hear from downstairs, filtered through floorboards, is kind of what this sounds like.

Something went wrong, somewhere along the line. It's a shame.