Let's Goo. Altho I gotta ask some of the visuals in the video are from later in the series, hopefully you aren't spoiled on anything lol I also like the visual worldbuilding bits like how Empire and Alliamce architecture and lifestyle differs a lot from one another.
As great as the background of Reinhard and Kircheis and their childhood in this episode is, for me the highlight will always be the opening scene, where Reinhard marches into the Imperial Throne Room in the palace of Neue Sanssouci, because his dress uniform as an Imperial High Admiral/Field Marshall is one of the most beautiful uniform designs in all of fiction. I almost wept the first time I saw I it, and knew then and there that I NEEDED to cosplay it.
Saw your latest installment about the Kastrop rebellion and then looked back on this, and decided I ought to note one other thing about this episode that really stood out to me... During the whole Reinhard & Kircheis childhood flashback scene, pay attention to the background music. During the first half of the flashback, there is a constant background of quiet, pastoral classical music (more on what that music is in a moment). This part of the reminiscence ends when young Reinhard and Kircheis race back home, only to be met by the Imperial official who tells them that Annerose is going to be taken to the palace. There's the brief "insert commercial here" moment, and then right after that, when Reinhard bursts in on his father (in the scene you show @4:43)... there is no background music AT ALL. From this point on it's just dead silence in the background. It's as if, without Annerose, the music has LITERALLY gone from their lives. It actually wasn't until years and years after I first saw that scene that it actually clicked, just WHAT the background music played in the first half actually is. Do you know it? It's by the famous German composer, Richard Wager, and was used in one of his "Ring Cycle" operas. Its name? SIEGFRIED'S IDYLL. My mind exploded when I finally made this connection... The flashback is being told from Siegfried Kircheis' memory. And while they have Annerose, it's all about the happy, idyllic time in their lives when they were all together. An idyll means, "an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one." So literally, "Siegfried's Idyll" was the background music for Siegfried's idyll!
Dude. Holy shit. This makes me want to do a video compiling the best comments people have made in response to the LOGH series. This is like some next level shit. The attention to detail paid by the creators in crafting this adaptation is impressive-down to the name of the song evoking a certain mood and being used as a literary device to indicate a shift in a character’s perspective while having the name of that character as a direct way of making the connection explicit. Wowee.
@@otkanime5232 Hahaha! My historian buddy and I could do this for hours! When I made that connection about the music, I was starting my commute home from work and listening, as I usually did, to the classical music station out of NYC. They were in the middle of that piece, and of course I recognized it immediately. I think I was stopped a red light (fortunately) when they reached the end and the station announcer said, "That was Siegfried's Idyll by Richard Wagner, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic" or something similar. I wish I could have had a video of my face at that moment, as my brain put 2 and 2 together and got fish. I definitely spent the next few moments in my car shouting some combination of obscenities while a tear rolled down my cheek. As soon as I got home that evening, I put a comment about it on my Facebook page, but of course only friends would have seen it. I have since used that clip and given that explanation once or twice at cons, usually when my friends and I do our occasional "These are a few of our favorite scenes" panel...
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Love this! Thanks man! Have a good rest!
@@otkanime5232 :D morning
If you're lovin' it now, can't wait to see your reaction to Seasons 2 & 3
Let's Goo. Altho I gotta ask some of the visuals in the video are from later in the series, hopefully you aren't spoiled on anything lol
I also like the visual worldbuilding bits like how Empire and Alliamce architecture and lifestyle differs a lot from one another.
As great as the background of Reinhard and Kircheis and their childhood in this episode is, for me the highlight will always be the opening scene, where Reinhard marches into the Imperial Throne Room in the palace of Neue Sanssouci, because his dress uniform as an Imperial High Admiral/Field Marshall is one of the most beautiful uniform designs in all of fiction. I almost wept the first time I saw I it, and knew then and there that I NEEDED to cosplay it.
That’s awesome bro!
@@otkanime5232 www.deviantart.com/rheinhard/art/Reich-Flotte-Admiral-Portrait-5-332473470
Holy shit! That is so cool bro! Well done! And thanks for sharing!
Saw your latest installment about the Kastrop rebellion and then looked back on this, and decided I ought to note one other thing about this episode that really stood out to me... During the whole Reinhard & Kircheis childhood flashback scene, pay attention to the background music. During the first half of the flashback, there is a constant background of quiet, pastoral classical music (more on what that music is in a moment). This part of the reminiscence ends when young Reinhard and Kircheis race back home, only to be met by the Imperial official who tells them that Annerose is going to be taken to the palace. There's the brief "insert commercial here" moment, and then right after that, when Reinhard bursts in on his father (in the scene you show @4:43)... there is no background music AT ALL. From this point on it's just dead silence in the background.
It's as if, without Annerose, the music has LITERALLY gone from their lives.
It actually wasn't until years and years after I first saw that scene that it actually clicked, just WHAT the background music played in the first half actually is.
Do you know it?
It's by the famous German composer, Richard Wager, and was used in one of his "Ring Cycle" operas.
Its name?
SIEGFRIED'S IDYLL.
My mind exploded when I finally made this connection... The flashback is being told from Siegfried Kircheis' memory. And while they have Annerose, it's all about the happy, idyllic time in their lives when they were all together. An idyll means, "an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one."
So literally, "Siegfried's Idyll" was the background music for Siegfried's idyll!
Dude. Holy shit. This makes me want to do a video compiling the best comments people have made in response to the LOGH series.
This is like some next level shit. The attention to detail paid by the creators in crafting this adaptation is impressive-down to the name of the song evoking a certain mood and being used as a literary device to indicate a shift in a character’s perspective while having the name of that character as a direct way of making the connection explicit. Wowee.
@@otkanime5232 Hahaha! My historian buddy and I could do this for hours!
When I made that connection about the music, I was starting my commute home from work and listening, as I usually did, to the classical music station out of NYC. They were in the middle of that piece, and of course I recognized it immediately. I think I was stopped a red light (fortunately) when they reached the end and the station announcer said, "That was Siegfried's Idyll by Richard Wagner, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic" or something similar. I wish I could have had a video of my face at that moment, as my brain put 2 and 2 together and got fish. I definitely spent the next few moments in my car shouting some combination of obscenities while a tear rolled down my cheek. As soon as I got home that evening, I put a comment about it on my Facebook page, but of course only friends would have seen it. I have since used that clip and given that explanation once or twice at cons, usually when my friends and I do our occasional "These are a few of our favorite scenes" panel...
Good stuff man, keep it up
Thanks man!