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  1. Also, out of curiosity, what about the subject matter would you say hurt the score?

     

    Not to repeat the content from my own TLJ review, but I found the story lackluster in plot coherence.  A lot of rehashed themes cropped up, which I didn't mind (the battle music from ROTJ comes to mind as a welcome return to the big screen), but there was nothing uniquely identifying in the score for the characters of Rose and DJ, who I thought were the two most interesting and complex of the characters introduced in the film.

     

    The leitmotifs can also extend to locations, and while there was a pseudo-Cantina score, it wasn't particularly memorable, and the mineral planet also was too Hoth-y to be unique in that sense.  I love the First Order motif, Rey's theme, the March of the Resistance, Jedi Steps, and a lot of the other scores from TFA, when these were new things and locations. TLJ lacks grist for this mill.

  2. The music in TLJ is by far the weakest of any entry, Rogue One included.  I blame the subject matter.
     
    I went in thinking that Rian Johnson was going to do really wild and wacky moves with the editing, but I remember coming out of TFA much more attuned to the directorial tricks than I did with TLJ.  Perhaps I'm not cinematically educated enough to pick up on them, but I wasn't blown away by any of it.

  3. As far as social politics, or whatever: the only real issue at hand, is that being a woman is in itself being a political statement, apparently. That's the shameful, unavoidable reality of our current world. However, to think that choosing a woman to play the role is solely an act of "pandering", or whatever nonsense it'll be called, is indicative of a very shallow, very misguided worldview. As it turns out, woman can be just as good as men in doing the same job, and deserve to represent fictional heroes. I can't understand finding fault with such a sentiment. I also cannot understand the fundamental problem with wanting to give the audience what they want. Isn't casting a male Doctor just as much "pandering" to the male audience who want that? It's so silly.

     

    Absolutely—and this is why Peter Davison's comments got so many people riled up. It shouldn't have to matter, but factors extraneous to the show mean that people will be looking at Series 11 with different lenses. If Chibnall doesn't knock it out of the park on his first season, I can only imagine that those who decried Whittaker's casting will be the first in line to blame her for its shortcomings.

  4. Most of the middle-of-the-season stories are fairly consistent from season to season (aside from absolutely abysmal entries like as Kill the Moon).  The problem is that I'm not sure Moffat has written a good premiere or finale since The Big Bang, and since the series bookends determine the arc of that season, a terrible idea can infect the whole shebang.  That's my main issue with series 9, actually—the whole "hybrid" thing went beyond "hard to follow" territory into "aggressively nonsensical" land.
     
    I hope that Chibnall puts an end to the abhorrent practice of out-of-character actions driving drawn-out tell-don't-show plot-hole-besotted action figure fantasies that put the Doctor's life or the human race or the whole universe or all of Time Itself™ in jeopardy twice a series.

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  5. The fact that Chibnall is in charge instead of Moffat was infinitely more relieving than any on-screen casting decision.  As we've learned from Capaldi's tenure, brilliant actors can be squandered if the plots suck.
     
    Don't get me wrong, I love that they got an actress who can really nail the role, but the scripts better do her justice.

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