Originally Posted by MI7
Bombast and enthusiasm are good.
Agreed. The butchery at the end of Human Nature is the worst so far I think...closely followed by Rise of the Cybermen. And of course The Runaway Bride was hardly perfection...etc.
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Rise Of The Cybermen was MUCH worse....
To be honest for episodes like the above where no trailer is played over the music itself, why don't they use the edit from Doomsday which takes the radiophonic howl straight into the melody? It wasn't perfect, but it was passable, and would have worked fine for Human Nature.
The regular amateurish butchery of the theme music is very odd for the Beeb's flagship drama. They need to rework it with three proper mixes: the standard one as now, a "reversed" version for two parters where they want the trailer at the end, and a shorter version for where there is no trailer at all (eg end of series).
Even Crossroads (cheesy crap seventies/eighties British soap for those who don't know) used to have three different edits of the theme music for the different lengths needed.