There’d been so much use of melody that actually if you listen carefully to that stretch from when he jumps out to the shield coming down, it was almost more like an unbearable horror kind of a tone.
And yet secretly knowing in the eternal stretching of the sound, there’s something inevitable and like it is simply going to unfold in front of you pretty much as you’d expect, while you’re also thinking, ‘Don’t do it!’
If you listen carefully to that section, after it becomes clear that Batttlestar is dead, John Walker jumps out, and you know from the filmmaking in the edit that he’s not a man in control. There isn’t wisdom in there anymore, he’s on a vengeance mission…
We experimented with a few things… there’d been a lot of melody in the show, and we found that a sort of unbearable stretch of expanding kind of horrific tone over that area lends it this kind of awful inevitability and gravity, where you’re sort of simultaneously horrified thinking, ‘Please don’t do this.’