Originally Posted by QcCowboy

I love the way people base their entire opinions on Williams' music on Star Wars, as if that was the only thing he ever wrote.

I can literally say I have heard just about every single note John Williams wrote, both for the screen and for the concert stage. And to base an opinion on that single series of soundtracks is as faulty as basing an assessment of Webern on his Passacaglia opus 1 for orchestra.

And going by the age of many of the users of this forum, I suspect too many are basing their "star wars" opinions on the prequel trilogy soundtracks, which are, in my opinion, among Williams' most feeble attempts at film scoring.

By the way, Williams did far more in the Star Wars scores than copy a few measures of Holst and change the time signature. Saying anything like that is simply a sign of pure ignorance on the matter.