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Having been on two more times in the last two days, I have a few more observations about the music.
Whether it was ever there way back when or not ... they have now started the "Scare Me" theme the minute you pass the storm vignette ... whereas it used to start only upon approaching the treasure room. Now the harpsichord is not the sole source of music ... it's score (albeit authentic PoC score) all the way through.
In fact, from the first drop until the well-dunking scene - - the entire experience is musically scored .... radically changing said experience, imo.
Some of the music I like, and some I don't. But there's just too frelling much of it. Just as it's inartful when a movie is wall-to-wall score, so is this ride in its new incarnation, says me. Movie score is most effective in the transition from non-score to score. It's the starting points that pop out most. If you never stop having music, there's no opportunity to start it up again.
I think the start of the music AT the treasure room was a great sound effection. Lost.
On the plus side, I sorta see where they were trying to go ... and some of it works in an observorish kinda way. The ethereal music in the big waterfall cavern, for example, is not completely unpleasant or without psychenautic effect in that most trippy environment. But the non-stop musical score makes the whole thing seem like more of a diorama presentation, and less like a pretend adventure.
Bah, says I, to that!
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