Via Kotaku.com:

John Williams knows more about Star Wars than you do. I mean, not in the ‘who was R5-D4’s original manufacturer in the Expanded Universe’ sort of way. I mean narratively, and emotionally.

It’s fair to say that while The Force Awakens has been received with near universal acclaim (as Metacritic would put it), the reception for John Williams’ score has been a little more guarded. It’s a hard bar to hit—some of the best film music of the twentieth century was written by Williams for a Star Wars movie, after all.

It’s true, The Force Awakens score offers little in the way of memorable new melodies. I’m a film score tragic, and it took even me several listens to fully embed Rey’s Theme, the major new melody from the film, into my mind.

Yet there’s something more complicated going on here. Far from John Williams losing his spark, what I think we’ve got with The Force Awakens is something deeper, something more complex than we’ve come to expect from Star Wars.

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