After watching about ten hours of BSG this past Friday to catch up with the series, I listened to one of the characters singing a lament.The character was one of the side-line characters who had been there since the series started. Lt. Gaeta was sort of the guy that everyone over-looked until he wasn't there; a backbone of the CIC who would leave a big gap in their operations if he was gone.
Through the course of the series, Gaeta ends up getting shot in the leg and they have to amputate it below the knee. While recouperating in sick bay, he is half-drugged on pain killers but can occasionally feel the twitches of his missing limb. The doctor told him to sing whenever he felt it to help get his mind off the sensation. It's an interesting idea considering that they can't just keep pumping him full of morph - they're not making it anymore.
It reminded me of the scene in Return of the King where one of the Hobbits sung some depressing dirge while a force of men charged in on a suicide run to retake the ruins of Osgiliath.
Well, I had wondered if they had borrowed the song from another source (like they did with the song that gathered four of the last five cylons together) or if it was original. So I started digging and finally found the words to the song and that it was originally composed.
To give you some idea of how the song was used in the show I've put a link to the Youtube video here.
1 comment:
I have just been geek served. I don't think I can even step up to this one. I was expecting maybe the mp3 or a youtube vid, but you found the sheet music!
"Monk. Muse.
That's why you make the big bucks."
*snicker*
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