It is returning through the dark! Darkness is falling! All the planets in the sky are disappearing!
Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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I liked Gold's music, but I'm not really enthused by this news myself. The guy was spent by the time he left. I mean, sure, seven years have gone by, he's probably caught his second wind or whatever. Still, I'd have preferred someone new.
But I'll keep an open mind.
But I'll keep an open mind.
"RTD2"
*eye twitches"
With the Disney connections it was inevitable.
Can't wait to hear his new theme opening, wonder what he will have for us this time.
Gold returning? Insert gif of Claude Raines from Casablanca here.
My big hope is that both RTD and Gold have matured somewhat and that we are going to get something at least a little different from RTD's first era.
I like Gold's stuff, and by comparison I barley noticed the music during the Chibnall era, but much like @The Nth Doctor it could get a little too bombastic at times. I don't always want the music to tell me how to feel, sometimes I like the script and the actors to do that.
My big hope is that both RTD and Gold have matured somewhat and that we are going to get something at least a little different from RTD's first era.
I like Gold's stuff, and by comparison I barley noticed the music during the Chibnall era, but much like @The Nth Doctor it could get a little too bombastic at times. I don't always want the music to tell me how to feel, sometimes I like the script and the actors to do that.
Interview with him in DWM on Thursday so that should clarify it. (Clayton Hickman also confirmed he asked him about the S10 soundtrack as well.)
Edit: Just saw Russell confirmed he's back for Ncuti too on Instagram, with a cheeky "Is anyone surprised?"
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Me too, evidently. I bought exactly one of Gold's Doctor Who soundtrack CDs, the first one, and listened to it two or three times. I have two or three of Akinola's and have played them rather more often. But then I'm the kind of soundtrack fan who doesn't own any John Williams stuff. I'll take Howard Shore's Crash or Johann Johannsson's Arrival over any Williams score.
Same here, especially regarding Shore (Lord of the Rings for me) and Johannson over any Williams (except Schindler's List).
I also know I'm in the vast minority regarding Akinola's scores. Like you, I frequently listen to his scores.
Just when I decide to backtrack slightly on my frustration with RTD's decisions since he agreed to come back, he goes and takes another step backwards by rehiring an old composer instead of continuing to move the Doctor Who IP forward with new blood.
* sigh *
Hopefully my cynicism turns out to be unfounded and we actually get music that isn't stale.
* sigh *
Hopefully my cynicism turns out to be unfounded and we actually get music that isn't stale.
I don't know. All of this talk about the series going backwards confuses me. I mean, take this for example. It's not like we've ever seen a handsome Doctor in a blue suit holding hands with his young blonde companion while they gaze into each other's eyes before, is it? 
Well that is even better news, as i thought he was only coming back for the specials, but he is back full time, bring it on Gold, my ears are ready. Ha
I don't know. All of this talk about the series going backwards confuses me. I mean, take this for example. It's not like we've ever seen a handsome Doctor in a blue suit holding hands with his young blonde companion while they gaze into each other's eyes before, is it?
I personally had a lot of anger and frustration over RTD's decision to bring back David Tennant as a second incarnation of The Doctor, and I've only recently started slowly becoming willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
His decision to bring back Murray Gold hits at that same source of anger and frustration for me, though.
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Frustration, I get. But anger?
I love this show but I had plenty of issues with Davies back in the day and I've made my position pretty clear about Gold just now. I wasn't a fan of the idea of bringing back Tennant but I'm willing to judge how it works when, you know, I've actually seen (and heard) it.
But anger? That's just...silly.
I love this show but I had plenty of issues with Davies back in the day and I've made my position pretty clear about Gold just now. I wasn't a fan of the idea of bringing back Tennant but I'm willing to judge how it works when, you know, I've actually seen (and heard) it.
But anger? That's just...silly.
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You're assuming that was RTD's decision to bring Tennant back. Well, okay, the manner Tennant is coming back likely was RTD's idea, but just like bringing Tennant back for the 50th anniversary was something BBC mandated Moffat do, I'm sure BBC likely mandated RTD to bring Tennant back for the 60th. RTD just decided to bring Tennant back as a temporary incumbent Doctor, rather than teaming him up with a new Doctor in a multi-Doctor story.
But then, I did explain this to you back in 2021 and you dismissed me saying that you didn't believe any former Doctors were coming back for the 60th.
No. The full story was told in DWM. The return was prompted by Russell, David and Catherine taking part in a Lockdown Tweet-along of 'The Runaway Bride'. After it was finished it was Tate who suggested they ask the BBC if they could come back for a one-off episode. One turned into three and with Chibnall leaving the opportunity for Bad Wolf to take over producing the show with Russell in charge came about.
A few points of clarification:
1) I was angered by RTD's decision to make Tennant the Fourteenth Doctor because it felt, to me, like an attempt to pander to the shithead Doctor Who fanboys who lost their minds after Jodie Whittaker was given the role by going straight to one of the two actors who catapulted the series to its massive International popularity
2) Regeneration ending up resulting in a Doctor reusing a face has never been explicitly been done before and, while I would normally be receptive to such a choice, my anger at what I thought RTD's motivations were overrode every other emotion
3) @The Wormhole My denials were rooted in things I believed at the time about the future of the program and in an unwillingness to contemplate that the then-just-announced Ncuti Gatwa wasn't going to be the Doctor that immediately followed Jodie
1) I was angered by RTD's decision to make Tennant the Fourteenth Doctor because it felt, to me, like an attempt to pander to the shithead Doctor Who fanboys who lost their minds after Jodie Whittaker was given the role by going straight to one of the two actors who catapulted the series to its massive International popularity
2) Regeneration ending up resulting in a Doctor reusing a face has never been explicitly been done before and, while I would normally be receptive to such a choice, my anger at what I thought RTD's motivations were overrode every other emotion
3) @The Wormhole My denials were rooted in things I believed at the time about the future of the program and in an unwillingness to contemplate that the then-just-announced Ncuti Gatwa wasn't going to be the Doctor that immediately followed Jodie
So your anger was over something you didn't have the full story on and then jumped to your own conclusions that fueled such anger?
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Anger and frustration are not rational reactions, but they are valid and legitimate reactions.
