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Murray Gold's Score

He had some good scores, but at the same time - on the last time I tried rewatching his era, especially the first few years, it's so loud and bombastic and something the Piped Piper would take lessons from. I want the characters and situations to make me emote, not the incidental music trying to force the issue, especially if the characters and situations are so embarrassingly bad they need to have the music blaring to compensate. Humans managed for centuries to provide core quality entertainment without these trimmings, the last three decades have shown an impressive if not fascinating shift from core components to secondary ones and now viewers are addicts, all whining if the latest episode doesn't look as good as the previous ones and as if there's nothing else to a story, which is sometimes the case as well.
 
Seems to me the music in Matt Smiths stories has been toned down a lot. Moffatt's decision?

I'd guess. Compare NuWHO to TNG. The same composers were there since the first year but the tone changed radically in TNG season 5. NuWHO had the same composer since series 1 but in comes a new producer and the same composer puts out a new (and better quality because it's not the in-your-face-here's-how-to-react style, IMHO) format. Murray Gold is simply a great composer. And yes, his music alone is great but coupled with a strong and genuinely good scene, it's even better.
 
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