Now, I'm sure this has a great to deal with my endless and shameless musical geekdome, but to me, music adds so much to film and television story-telling. For centuries now, music has been used to tell stories. First with ballet and opera, more recently with musical theatre, and now of course in film and television. Even if it's just "background music," it sets a mood, it sets a tone, both for individual characters (The
Star Wars soundtrack is the most obvious example of that; you hear certain themes and immediately associate that music with Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader) and various events (for example, a story that involves warfare and battles may have a recurring theme that plays when the good guys win something, or on the flip side, when the bad guys prevail, or when the good guys valiantly sacrifice themselves either for the greater good or just their own honour).
Bear McCreary, who composed the soundtrack for the re-imagined
Battlestar Galactica, is my hero and I actually went so far as to send him a fan letter offering to bare his flock of musically talented love children. I never received a reply, but that's okay. I still love him.
It's not a sexuality (or even a sexual) thing. It's just hard not to fall deeply in love with a mind that produces some of the following.
PassacagliaGaeta's LamentAttack on the Colonies of ManJeff Beal is another man I have a mad intellectual infatuation with. He composed the score for
Carnivale, which I found to be one of the most beautiful, moving attempts at story-telling to ever grace television. Until HBO cancelled it after its second series. *shakes fist* But the music, which is a combination of songs from the times in which it's set (mid 1930's, in the throes of the American Great Depression) and original compositions. The following plays in the last scenes of the "last" episode (the title of the track alone should be a hint of how frustrating it was to viewers to not be allowed to see the completion of the story).
The Battle is not Over 
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