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[ivyfic]

I'm a John Williams fan, as many of you know, but I've been rather disappointed with his stuff of late. Other than "Duel of the Fates," the scores to the Star Wars prequels have been entirely uninteresting to me, and I felt such antipathy towards the Harry Potter scores that I didn't bother to get the third one. For all the gushing people do over the magical "Hedwig's theme," I've owned the Hook soundtrack for almost a decade and it's the same damn thing. There were parts of Prisoner of Azkaban that I thought Williams seriously miscued, to the point of throwing me out of the action while I was in the theater.

So I was surprised when watching Goblet of Fire last night to find that I really enjoyed the score. Today I went to amazon to take a closer look and it's not John Williams. They replaced him with Patrick Doyle! Let me take a moment to express what a shocker this is. I have a few Doyle scores, but I never listen to them. They've been functional at best, and really not worth examining closely. So it's quite a shock to find that I not only didn't recognize that it wasn't a Williams score but was actually impressed by something Patrick Doyle wrote. In my defense, he was using the Williams-written themes, so maybe all Doyle really needed was good thematic material to work with.