Yes.

Horribly so, yes. It's got to the point where you really notice it when the music dies down a bit, only it almost never does.

Ho ho, tratorello, you don't know the half of it. Both this and the Who thread on the previous board are strewn with abuse hurled towards Murray Gold and his abysmal incidental noise. Ask ian64 what he thinks, go on.

I have to say, last episode was the first time I've really noticed how annoying the music was. And it was really, really annoying. I tend to be pretty oblivious to music in TV shows (though not films, for some reason).

To be fair it's increasingly a problem in dramas and particularly documentaries, so it's far from unique to Who. But Gold's music is cheesy muzak as well as being too loud and appearing too often.

There have been a couple of episodes where I've half-suspected that they've got Gold to drown out the dialogue on purpose to fudge RTD's sudden polarity-reversal plot resolutions.

The music was particularly bad in that final episode. The fact there were far too many emotional farewells at the end didn't help.

It's not just overblown orchestration that Gold can do, either. All of a sudden he'll throw in a real curveball, like some amateurish drum n' bass/thrash metal mash-up, that makes you wonder if he really is taking the piss.

I'm surprised 'SACK MURRAY GOLD' didn't make it onto Larry Miles' list of 'ways to improve Doctor Who'.

With the Christmas special being in Victorian times, I'm hoping for a new non-contemporary assistant partly because it will be more interesting but mainly to save us from mobile phones and constant harking back to the family, because they'll all have died of pox or TB before the assistant can worry about the ramifications of leaving them behind.

Come on mumpo, be all sour at him.

Got me there, Wyatt. It is hilarious, and got me watching a few "Blink" music videos (courtesy of the lovely dopes who make music videos out of Doc Who eps on youtube.)

We caught up with this series on the ABC, whilst, in our parallel universe the previous one is finishing up on Foxtel - and you lot found it confusing!!

I am not sure the bloke in our village who dressed like Tom Baker (yes, all the time) and used to pretend his wardrobe was the Tardis would have liked it, but then again if only "true" fans watched then the show would be cancelled again.

The series all seemed like good fun to me - and the 11 year old could be spotted hiding behind a cushion every now and then. That is how it should be.

What are you doing here?

'Genius' doesn't go halfway to describing this.

I'll say.

What's incredible, is seeing how the sets, costumes, staging, and camerawork has changed over the years. It's like a perfect random science experiment.

If you were to ask someone who's never seen the show, to rank the Doctors in the order of best to worst, it probably wouldn't look all that different than those who have seen all of those episodes for real. (Put it this way, it really brings out why Tom Baker is so beloved, and why Colin Baker ain't.)

It's also funny to see how much the Sylvester McCoy era's mise-en-scene isn't all that different than today's. It can almost be viewed as the seeds being planted for the current show - at least camera and set-wise.

Who will be the next Who then now David has stepped down??