02- Baltar's Dream

[ElephantEnigma]

At 1:38, what is that sitary like instrument (is being strummed through rest of song)?

Great song btw, thanks for the upload GT

[TheRealSlimTeddy]

tell me, Baltar and his girl are... angels? then Starbuck is... a prophet?

[TheRealSlimTeddy]

no nvm

[titanium0909]

Whats that theme they play in the episode "Black Market"? It's the one when they show Lee with Shivon on caprica before the fall.

[platek991]

guwno

[constanza86]

@platek991 Naucz się pisać ćwoku.

[AndyHocvs]

I`d take this song over that Shifty sonofabitch any day of the week.

[Crunor]

Even after finishing BSG about one year ago, this track still leaves me speechless.

[Papatauenga]

Powerful. Delicate. Beautiful. Sacred. Profane. God. Devil. All these words come to mind when I listen to 'Baltar's Dream'. Great song! :D

[mart270]

"What do you have there?"

"It's a child obviously."

"A child? Can I hold it? Please."

"Is this the shape of things to come?"

"Thats my understanding."

"Only one thing for it then."

"Commander, where are you going?"

Adama walks away to the River puts the child in the water, walks away. Cut to Baltar waking up from his vision/nightmare with Caprica six (Angle) sitting next to him. In short brilliant track, brilliant scene.

[Papatauenga]

@mart270 yes. it was glorious. Powerful....

[clonecommander62]

Is it just me or does this remind anyone of the track from Star Wars III: Padmes Ruminations?

[rushenb]

"Baltar's Dream", "Cally Descends" and "Kara's Coordinates", three masterpeace I love most of all Bear McCreary's collection..

[gunlover94]

wtf do people like baltar? i mean hes an awesome actor, but his character is such a slime ball.

[MCulpa]

@gunlover94

because he's human.

And he's purposefully made in such a way so that objectively, his actions are justifiable as mere self-preservation: in short, his only crime is not being heroic; however the way his actions are seen cause the cast, and the viewer, to judge him inappropriately.

[antred11]

@gunlover94 It's not as easy as that. There were many situations where I despised him, really hated him. And there were others where you couldn't help but sympathize with him. On occasion he even seemed to be the sole voice of reason ... and then he'd go and fuck it all up by doing something really stupid / selfish. With Gaius, it's a constant love/hate relationship ... the character has too many sides for one to just hate him or just love him.

[Dreadedaries]

black hawk down feel

[Icepacalapse]

Baltar get's the best music because he's the muthafuckin' shit.

[LPSpeppers]

Baltar gave the nuke to the Pegasus' Six because Angel Six told him to. Later, the cylons were able to find the humans on new Caprica because of the radioactive trail that the explosion of the nuke left.

[TitusVI]

Why did baltar gave the nuclear bomb to the cylon woman? since that he was a bad guy for me!

[ilovemejau]

@TitusVI , you mean giving the Cylons access to all the defense codes in exchange for sex wasn't bad? Or framing Aaron Doyle as a Cylon (OK, so he WAS a Cylon, but Baltar didn't know that), or praying that the Olympic Carrier will be destroyed? Baltar is charming, but not good.

[TitusVI]

@ilovemejau

I meant the episode where baltar gave the nuclear bomb to the blonde woman which was raped in the pegasus. she blowed the bomb off and destroyed the ship which had some kind of open garden in it.

[FreemanicParacusia]

"Is that the shape of things to come? ...Only one thing for it, then."

The writers of this series were brilliant, because this played itself out only a few episodes later. Baltar dreams of Adama drowning Hera, and only a short time later Roslin and Adama make an actual attempt on her life. I still think one of the most wrenching parts of the entire series was watching a desperate Boomer trying to fend off marines with a chair as they came for her baby.

[20kiv10]

Dude, that was Aphina, not Boomer.

[FreemanicParacusia]

"Athena," yes.

[tresckow]

@20kiv10

athena. dude.

[20kiv10]

@tresckow yeah, sorry. In russian it sounds like "Aphina" :)

[willthack13]

@FreemanicParacusia Jeez, what episodes is this happening in? I thought Adama and Roslin quietly stole Hera and replaced her with a corpse.

[FreemanicParacusia]

@willthack13

They did, later on. What I was talking about happened in "Epiphanies," season 2, episode 13.

[Anon701]

When I was watching this scene it was one long WTF moment.

[wimpie25]

Baltar always gets the coolest soundtracks, the ones in season 3 are great as well (and weirder) because he gets into situation no one could have expected.

[EpoBot]

I kind of hate to admit it but Balthar is the character i can relate to most. Exept for the superhuman womanizing powers i guess.

[PrinceOfSpane]

@EpoBot I know what you mean, when I first started watching the series he was the one I saw the most of myself in, which of course made it painful watching all the shit he ended up doing.

[joe9songs]

@EpoBot So say we all! :P

[Hoshikage869]

Agrees, Baltar rocks. Does anyone know what genre this music is classified as? I need more.

[Fedaykin4321]

The "ethnic string instruments" you are referring to (that is a horribly racist/ignorant thing to say in my opinion btw....find a better term!) is actually just one instrument - the SITAR. First came out of India, I think.

Search "sitar" on youtube and click on "beautiful sitar player" to see what one looks like.

Just promise me you won't refer to anything as "ethnic" ever again besides food....lol.

[Paw51]

@Fedaykin4321 Not sure how referring to food often associated with given peoples or cultures as "ethnic" is any less racist than doing the same with a musical instrument. Neither is, in my opinion, but by your standards we should never use the word ethnic, ever.

[jhromano]

Baltar as a character was one of the best I've seen in a very long time, why you might ask. Well ask different people to define Gaius Baltar and you will get that many different Stories:) Very well done my The actor!!

[Icepacalapse]

It sounds like Bear Mcreary doubled the primary instrument at the beginning with a tremolo equipped guitar with a chorus effect.

[viowave]

I think this BSG Baltar represent one of the greatest characters in tv-history.

[emyllsomar]

I have to agree, I have always thought naming kids after TV/movie characters was silly and I was ready to name mine "Gaius" if it was a boy, but it was a girl and unfortunately "6" wasn't really a smart choice.

[MidnightSt]

well, what about Starbuck? :-D

or Athena? that would be nice, nobody would realize who is she really named after :-)

[islanumblar]

caprica's a nice name for a girl lol

[loaaarrr]

@emyllsomar

what about caprica? ;)

[Fedaykin4321]

Ughh, no way!

Baltar was a cowardly little shit who only ever cared about saving his own skin and keeping his supply of pills and poontang flowing. He had no will of his own, but was instead repeatedly shoved unwillingly into his stupid "destiny" by greater forces (and sometimes characters) of which he understood very little.

In my opinion, no matter what you accomplish in the end, you aren't a hero if somebody has to drag you along kicking and screaming. Baltar was just a tool.

[viowave]

Wasn't Jesus so?

[Paw51]

@Fedaykin4321 That's the problem with predestination. If you're the pawn of greater forces---which we all are, in many mundane and very real ways if not grand and cosmic ones---then you rarely have any inkling of the greater machine in which you are a cog. Baltar is lucky in that respect---he at least knows he's part of something greater than himself. Most of us never will. I dare say none of us would handle it as well as he did.

[antred11]

@Fedaykin4321 Well yeah, there's some truth to that I guess. Strength of character was not exactly one of his virtues. But he certainly was one of the most intriguing people on the show to the point where I totally can't imagine BSG without him.

[bsgalacticafan]

@viowave agreed

[AnonIonCannon]

@viowave

GAIUS FRAKING BALTAR?!

[KNOCKAMAN]

this show has the best score

[snipewhore]

Is that a violin at the start?

[Thesixthgoon]

@snipewhore

An electric type violin, yeah I think so.

[Icepacalapse]

I just listened to an awesome song.

Not really sure what the rest of you did.

[donniedarko66699]

Baltar may have been a coward in many ways but he did get all the hot women.

[Pawluk44]

Baltar was my favorite character. Much of the time his options were die or be seen as a coward. In the end he chose to stay on galactica. He still had some courage in him.

[viowave]

Baltar is no coward in a sense that he sees the opportunity to survive that a lot of people have in common in today's society. Yet he isn't afraid to stand out and to oppose and rebel. Again like Loki he makes mistakes but play a big role in the solution to solves the major problems. And in the end or from the beginning he was a man with a define mission .

[renj123]

i felt that way during my first watching of the whole show. but the second time I watched it, that rage and anger turned into pity, mostly becasue I realise that in greater detail that he was a victim of circumstance. I think this is one of many things that makes BSG have a HIGH level of rewatch value. I'm probably going to watch it a third time after another month or two. :D

[ElectroTechno97]

haha lol yup! :P

[FreemanicParacusia]

This bears a very strong resemblance to Hans Zimmer's "Ashes to Ashes" from the soundtrack of Black Hawk Down.

[lceage]

Sounds a little like the OST from Black Hawk Down

[PBfanaries]

yeah that's right :) i love OST Black Hawk Down...awesome music!

[silencedkitty]

I can feel the influence that the opening of this piece may have had on the Main Caprica theme song.

[davidtennantaddict13]

So, who cares where he's from! This is about his music, his compositions, which are beautiful. He has so many different pieces of music that have different sounds to them. That's just his style, and it's brilliant. It adds so much to the show. Thanks for upping this!

[vide0junkie]

If it had not been for the sacrifice of the Pegasus, Galactica would have been destroyed and the exodus from New Caprica would have been a failure.

[EC10Classified]

good gods you can read that!? It took me ten minutes to figure out he was trying to type in English, I can still only figure out approximately 60% of what the hell he's talking about!

[Bachridon]

As stupid as this might sound... so say we all. : |

[Vrael473]

Go Pegasus crew!!!

Give it up to one of the baddest fucking ships in the colonial fleet.

[shinigamigirl101]

this song is amazing? what was the main instrument used in the beginning?

[Thaepheux]

EPIC.

[mart270]

This track is amazing it is so unreal for Baltar's dream sequence "Is this the shape of things to come" "Thats my understanding" "Only one thing for it then" taking the baby from Baltar and drowning it in the river. As with all other tracks one of the best.

[TehBlackFox]

One of the best on the BSG soundtrack, in my opinion... It sounds so surreal. especially the part from 0:27 to 0:35 x3

[snipewhore]

works very well with the kobol episodes.

[Timeandskittles]

This music is awesome. There are few words that con describe it's awesomeness.

[AslanSilva]

Apart from awesome, right?

[DarkBrawlStudios]

Or Awesome Sauce =)

[ALFAZIX333]

sounds like something from arabia xD

[cuxti]

yess! absolutely beautiful

[PeopleOfAr]

I know it's you encient comment. But I wanted to respond the Guy who made this music is Armenian so that can explain the midle eastern sound

[Bakuninite]

I guessed it as being Iranian...

[phricak]

And I thought he was born in Florida and studied at USC...

[PeopleOfAr]

obviously he is American, but such ethnicity doesn't exist as we all know no matter how hard you peeps try ; )

[battleax86]

With a last name like "McCreary", I would guess he's of Scottish descent, not Middle Eastern...

[PeopleOfAr]

yeah I thought so two , but then I heard the duduk (armenian instrument) and I though hmmm this really sounds familiar to me lol. So I looked up some of his interviews and he says he is Armenians. And even has a picture with his mother who really looks Armenian. I guess this means his father has to be Scottish though. And btw. the song a distant sadness, is sung in Armenian and has a deeper meaning outside the show. It's actually about the Armenian Genocide you can read that on his blog page.

[PeopleOfAr]

I haven't found it, but I think his father is Scottish, because of his last name and also he has a lot of Scottish sounds mixed into the series. Like the "colonial anthem" with bagpipes and a song in Gaelic. Also a little correction. Armenia is not middle eastern , it's Caucasian and used to be Anatolian as well, before the Turks stole our land :p

[battleax86]

I was responding to the person who thought McCreary might have been Iranian...and Anatolia IS in the Middle East. :p

As for McCreary's father, he is probably American as well, just with a Scottish ancestor that might have come to America 200 or even 300 years ago.

[PeopleOfAr]

ok I recieved the message in my comment section so I thought you was talking to me. But we don't have any land in the middle east for over 600 years. Armenia is in Caucasus! ; )

[PeopleOfAr]

lol I just look into this "middle east" term and found out that Caucasus is sometimes also reffered as middle east as " the Greater Middle East" :O .. what a piece of shit designation. But I guess you were not that far off afterall...

[hakanboraaslan]

just enjoy the music, don't try any history lesson... just know that no land can be stolen in history, just could won by conquest... great song anyway, wish bsg has never ended...

[michelsspace]

actually, i believe part of this song [the end] was used in the BSG razor DVD promo

[sniper11789]

how cares about baltar but great song=]

[PeXis]

One of my favourites.. love the mood this song gives me.

Other great moody songs are "something dark is coming", "roslin and amada" and "battlestar sonatica" :)

[michelsspace]

this is one of the best <3

[mikz130]

out of all bsg songs i think this is the worst

[Starbuck049]

I really liked it combined with Kobol