Is it just me, or is the soundtrack to the new Dr. Who series a complete 5.1 disaster?

"Watchatalkin'boutbuster"? I hear you thinking between flipping accross screens containing a chat proggy, lurid pics, forums of incessant chatter and your favourite p2p fishing rod.

Well, let me paint a picture... Enter the Dr. - he starts speaking to his latest squeeze (don't get me started on that...) at a volume hardly audible to Bats even with the amp set to 11 and best described as "quiet tape noise" and WHAM!!! an entire symphony orchestra of hackneyed musical clichés drops from the sky at Disaster Area levels making what was initially hard to hear, now nigh-on impossible, let alone easing the burden of following the latest plot involving a Showroom Dummy/caring Dalek mutant looking for his long lost pencil sharpener.

Seriously, on a normal TV the show was annoying to listen to in the extreme.

Don't these people realise that no matter how popular, cheap and available, most people tuning in from TV land either won't have, or haven't figured out how to connect a dodgy pre-AV, coaxial-only TV to that spanky new Sony 145.7 surround sound, taste & smell-O vision pro-ethic rig?

Christ on a stick, the sound production crew needs to be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, mark my words of doom! 


And then there is the music itself... listen to a classic Dr. Who episode next time, to all those gorgeous Synthi 100s and VCS3s gurgling happily away in the background in the hands of unsung Radiophonic masters of subtractive synthesis creating a spooky backdrop against which to unleash the latest horror about to devour the multiverses.

And now listen to the new one.

I rest my case.