I just watched the last of the three parter and I'm in two minds about the whole thing. I feel a lot of stupidity happened at various points to get the story from A to B (particularly in the middle). I also feel there was an odd fairytale logic to the whole thing and I haven't decided quite whether I think it worked or not.
Weirdly I hardly ever notice the incidental music. People have been complaining about Murray Gold since 2003 and he's barely ever impinged upon me - though I do recognise what I believe is supposed to be the eleventh doctor's theme (though it seems to get used for Capaldi quite a bit as well). I do think the show often has a problem with dialogue getting overwhelmed by background music and the like - it was particularly bad with Tennant and Smith both of whose Doctor's tended to speak very fast in a crisis but it still happens. However I suspect that is a technical problem with sound balance rather than something specifically to do with the music per se.
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Weirdly I hardly ever notice the incidental music. People have been complaining about Murray Gold since 2003 and he's barely ever impinged upon me - though I do recognise what I believe is supposed to be the eleventh doctor's theme (though it seems to get used for Capaldi quite a bit as well). I do think the show often has a problem with dialogue getting overwhelmed by background music and the like - it was particularly bad with Tennant and Smith both of whose Doctor's tended to speak very fast in a crisis but it still happens. However I suspect that is a technical problem with sound balance rather than something specifically to do with the music per se.