Murray Gold

The Call Exchange in Cardiff was scenes in the entertainment lounge on the Titanic.

Composer Murray Gold and arranger Ben Foster were both present, alongside soul singer Yamat Mamo.

[smacks lips] It had been now become traditional for Gold to write an original Christmas song for each Christmas special.

This year, he developed The Store Away, featuring vocals by Mamo.

in case we haven't said it yet, the music throughout the en- this entire episode is incredible.

Like, Murray Gold really-

It's beautiful

...

She had the weight of the world on her shoulders, and she sang really beautifully.

She did.

I'm giving it to Murray Gold because wow, is the music incredible.

I, I really love the music-

I wonder if

Murray Gold was riffing on that with the new series Daleks.

Because there is some elements to the Dalek theme 2005 with that kind of...

It's kind of similar.

Much as

we derided Murray Gold's bombast of seasons one and two of the Disney series, there is some

great Murray Gold music in this.

Some of his best.

work

And it just, it feels rushed.

It's a 50 minute episode that felt way too rushed because all the, all the important stuff is there.

And then I, one of my notes is why is there music on everything? Like the, the scene between the doctor and Belinda is, first meeting each other and talking about stuff and there's this like overly lush music just coming in out of nowhere like it's you're not building to anything you're just trying to propel this thing along into like to be more like dramatic when it's they're just talking about blankets for god's sake you know like why are you talking about blankets why do we need this sort of music thing that's also not a director's thing because like murray gold basically did what murray gold wanted to do and that was the way things worked back then so it's yeah it's a it's I realize that it's been like a year and a bit since we watched these.

The music is constant throughout.

Way worse than they ever claimed that Murray Gold was.

And the music in the title sequence is so bland.

And the title sequence itself, it's like the logo that comes up is done in the way that it would in the Stephen Moffat era.

I don't think defenders of Doctor Who reboot really understand why it is such a bad idea.

So, of course, moral, ethical questionableness of AI, but also they use David Tennant's image and they also use Murray Gold's music.

Do you think the BBC is going to respond kindly to that? I don't think so.

I think what they're going to do is they're probably going to pull a Star Trek and XR situation and ban all fan films going scorched earth on the Doctor Who creative community.

Who.

They've all been massacred, but now we're off, now we've got the Murray Gold music playing because we're doing jaunty stuff again.

It's Obviously, you've got the two.

And I can see how some people would think it is a bit too camp.

I

don't need to ever hear another Murray Gold score again in my life.

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