[Sovay] The man really is both sincerely touching and a one-person Whumptober bingo card.
[me] I appreciate that anytime the question was asked in the writer's room "Who should we do this terrible thing to," the answer is invariably "Bill Maxwell."
So one of the things that gives Greatest American Hero a lot of its endearingly quirky charm is the show's score of mostly obscure 1970s and 1980s music, often arranged into little mini-music videos surrounding fight scenes, emotional character moments, etc., usually a few songs per episode. However, it also suffers from the problem of many shows from that era, where some of the music was replaced on the DVD due to rights issues. On the whole, this doesn't seem to have affected it all that much - either the song was obscure enough that they were able to clear the rights, or they found a replacement with the right general feeling - but there's one scene from the episode previously mentioned where the music really makes the scene, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay went and tracked down a clip of the scene with the original song ("Eve of Destruction").
However, the clip is a fairly low-quality TV rip, so I copied the video from the Youtube episode version and dubbed in the TV audio for a better-quality version to watch. (The timing might not be the best; I struggled with that a bit. Here's the one Sovay found.)
This is one of my favorites so far of the show's numerous mini-vids, not just because it's well edited with a great song (although that too!) but it also really got me emotionally: the non-superpowered character comes up with a plan that involves intentionally getting the attention of the military to whisk him off to a black ops site, except the timing on the rescue part doesn't work out as planned because the actual abduction turns out to be a lot more sudden, swift, and violent than expected. (Have I mentioned how much of a sucker I tend to be for the badass normals in a superhero world?)
(Edit: Link changed to Vimeo since Youtube went all copyright claim on it. Let's see how long this lasts. Password: eve)
Also it's possible I have been listening to this song on a loop all day. It's just a very catchy song in its bleak war-protest kind of way.
[me] I appreciate that anytime the question was asked in the writer's room "Who should we do this terrible thing to," the answer is invariably "Bill Maxwell."
So one of the things that gives Greatest American Hero a lot of its endearingly quirky charm is the show's score of mostly obscure 1970s and 1980s music, often arranged into little mini-music videos surrounding fight scenes, emotional character moments, etc., usually a few songs per episode. However, it also suffers from the problem of many shows from that era, where some of the music was replaced on the DVD due to rights issues. On the whole, this doesn't seem to have affected it all that much - either the song was obscure enough that they were able to clear the rights, or they found a replacement with the right general feeling - but there's one scene from the episode previously mentioned where the music really makes the scene, and
sovay went and tracked down a clip of the scene with the original song ("Eve of Destruction"). However, the clip is a fairly low-quality TV rip, so I copied the video from the Youtube episode version and dubbed in the TV audio for a better-quality version to watch. (The timing might not be the best; I struggled with that a bit. Here's the one Sovay found.)
This is one of my favorites so far of the show's numerous mini-vids, not just because it's well edited with a great song (although that too!) but it also really got me emotionally: the non-superpowered character comes up with a plan that involves intentionally getting the attention of the military to whisk him off to a black ops site, except the timing on the rescue part doesn't work out as planned because the actual abduction turns out to be a lot more sudden, swift, and violent than expected. (Have I mentioned how much of a sucker I tend to be for the badass normals in a superhero world?)
(Edit: Link changed to Vimeo since Youtube went all copyright claim on it. Let's see how long this lasts. Password: eve)
Also it's possible I have been listening to this song on a loop all day. It's just a very catchy song in its bleak war-protest kind of way.