Daleks In Colour - Mark Ayres Soundtrack

Nothing against Mark Ayres, who is a talented composer in his own right, but what was the point of trying to Murray Gold-ify the soundtrack to The Daleks? Tristram Cary's original score for that serial was a timeless masterpiece, and made the Daleks creepy in ways they haven't been since. Replacing that with an epic orchestral action-y soundtrack made the whole thing into a pantomime farce.

I would've killed to see the beautiful colourisation but with the original score. Maybe one for the 70th?

RTD has been vocal about his love for bombastic orchestral soundtracks. Fair enough, but something like that just isn't compatible with The Daleks.

Unlike a lot of people I'm not against colourisation. I think it's great seeing those visuals and the 60s Daleks in vibrant colour. But the soundtrack was a big part of what made that story great, and changing that rips all the charm out of the story. The Daleks is quite obviously low budget, but Cary's eerie electronic score helps make the Dalek city feel sterile, oppressive and claustrophobic, and the Daleks themselves impossibly alien and unsettling to watch. Replace that with a Murray Gold style soundtrack and the low budget-ness of both the setting and the Dalek props becomes much more obvious, and it just looks completely pantomime and unserious.