The music is grand and adventurous, rather like the tunes they pipe in over the queues at Alton Towers. Round and round it loops, constantly reminding you that you're about to experience (what they regard as) the most exciting few moments of your life.
There they are, the horns, the thumping timpani and the hollywood strings! There are the violins thudding out the rhythm of horses as the camera sweeps above the trail. The clash of cymbals, the flutes soaring like the stars around Jupiter in Holst's Planets, the riff modulates, the brass builds and climbs and the orchestra swells up into a single burst of crescendo...
And then it starts again. It's all adding a rather dramatic backdrop to my post-work book-reading and cup of tea. I feel like a conquering hero. While it's not relaxing it is weirdly complementing chapter 4 of Successful People Skills, Reinforce strengths, eliminate weaknesses...
Actually this soundtrack would be great at the other end of the day, when I'm actually between the car park and the office. Swing the rucksack over both shoulders, tie your laces purposefully and tightly, do a little clenched fist and march in as though you just defeated Medusa or diverted the Styx with your bare hands or something.
It all seems rather dramatic for a cartoon panda. When are Dreamworks bringing out a film about fearless and feisty technical authors who save the world with punctuation and bullet lists?
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