Those that dislike Gold’s music usually point to two related problems. I’m not entirely sympathetic to this line of argument, but it’s not incoherent wibbling spat into the void either. It’s become the populist choice to criticize Murray Gold’s Doctor Who scores in general. The first is Murray Gold, or, more accurately, his music. To say that this is an awkward combination is an understatement, and virtually everything that’s wrong with the story can be traced to the basic inability to decide whether it’s a scary story or a naff cheap one for the kids, and the fact that these are a particularly bad pair of stools to fall between.īut two specific aspects of this tension are worth remarking upon. Graham, for his part, appears to have had a crappy brief – he was told to do Yeti-on-the-loo style local terror with a target audience of seven-year-olds. Stephen Fry’s planned script for the second season had to be abandoned late in the process, so they grabbed Matthew Graham’s planned Series Three script off the reserve pile and put it into production quickly. The short form is that the story was rushed and misconceived. As ever, I don’t find the issue of why it’s bad supremely interesting. This story, of course, is Fear Her, the consensus worst story of the Russell T Davies era (and, I suspect, worst story of the new series were a thorough poll to be run today – I can’t think of any Moffat stories with enough sheer volume of hatred to overcome it). England earn a 2-2 draw against Sweden in their last and largely irrelevant group game, setting them up for a clash with Ecuador the day after this story airs. In news, ummm… the United States celebrates Go Skateboarding Day. Nelly Furtado is at number one with “Maneater.” Shakira and Wyclef Jean, Bon Jovi, and Pink are also in the charts.
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