> ...did you skip his score for TMNT2: Out of the Shadows, or did I miss an entry? 'Cause I just gave it a fresh spin recently while going through the TMNT scores, and I was looking forward to your thoughts on it!

Looking back I think there was some fatigue when I got to 2015-2016 since I seem to have omitted several works that I didn't think would be enormously consequential and/or tolerable. Deadpool got skipped. This did too. I'm sure there are a few others.

Debatable if I should have done that for Out of the Shadows. On the one hand, it might have been something I liked more than, say, Skyscraper. And it was a continuation of the Jablonsky/Bay relationship, even if I doubt Michael Bay was terribly involved in the sequel. But it still feels less essential to the broader story - unsuccessful film, plus the music wasn't a bellwether of things to come in the next year or two.

> On the whole, it feels in the same vein as his Transformers 1 score: a guilty pleasure with some good thematic tracks, even if it isn't super original.

This is admittedly less appealing for me than it probably is for many others - but only because Transformers tops out at a *** work for me.