bobC wrote:I hope I'm not going overboard here, but I just became aware, after watching it maybe ten times, of the song that played over the credits as The Pilot ended. Here are the lyrics to "The Beast In Me." Very interesting song Chase used to end the first episode.
Beast in Me Lyrics - Nick Lowe
The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bonds
Restless by day
And by night, rants and rages at the stars
God help, the beast in me
The beast in me
Has had to learn to live with pain
And how to shelter from the rain
And in the twinkling of an eye
Might have to be restrained
God help the beast in me
Sometimes
It tries to kid me that it's just a teddy bear
Or even somehow managed
To vanish in the air
And that is when I must beware
Of the beast in me
That everybody knows
They've seen him out dressed in my clothes
Patently unclear
If it's New York or New Year
God help the beast in me
The beast in me
This has always been one of my absolute favorite songs from this show. And since the music Chase typically used, appealed to me, this is saying alot. I just feel like it epitomizes the series or at least Tony's character. Always loved this song, and always thought it would have been cool (if the series didn't end the way it did) for the final song to have been the same one.
My one complaint with this musical choice is a retroactive complaint. As FoMW has stated (and I will do my best to paraphrase here), Chase, as the series progressed, seemed to become discouraged by how many viewers saw Tony as in such a positive light. And this final season put the exemplified how Chase feels about Tony. And it itsn't positive. Well, if anything this song is a sympathetic, poem to an individual's frailty and the human condition. So, Chase planted the seed in viewer's minds of Tony as being a sympathetic anti-hero.
Now, these are all FoMW's points, let me be clear about that, but I completely agree, and I think this song is an excellent portrayal of how Chase might have felt in regards to Tony at the beginning of the series, but his opinion changed as the series progressed. Either that, OR Chase played us like a fiddle from the very beginning. Or perhaps it is a little of both.