Alright, here goes:
-Awake is a structural mess. Sections and themes often seem carelessly glued together without any regard for creating a smooth transition. The "Space Dye Vest" foreshadowing in "The Mirror" just seems to be thrown in without any reason or explanation whatsoever. Every time I hear it I just think "Why is this here? 'The Mirror' and 'Space Dye Vest' are separated by like four songs and there's no other connection between the two. It just feels unnecessary." "Scarred" is basically a collage of ideas that are really good on their own, but do not gel together whatsoever. It's like an accidental picaresque novel. And don't get me started on "Lie" and "Voices". The songs that tend to work the most for me are the "poppier" songs like "6:00", "Lifting Shadows", "Innocence Faded", and "Space-Dye Vest".
-Kevin Moore's keyboard parts are usually super boring to me. "Wait for Sleep" and "Space-Dye Vest" are the only two that really stand out for me.
-Amusingly, despite being of their shortest albums, DT12 probably has the most "fat" on it of any album. "Surrender to Reason" and "Enigma Machine" could easily be 5min songs. "The Enemy Inside" gets a little chubby around the middle too. Also, "False Awakening Suite" is one of the best songs off the album.
-The Symphonic Theater of Dreams version of "Ministry of Lost Souls" works so much better than the original version. That out of nowhere heavy middle section fits very nicely in the song when it's played by an orchestra.
-"A Mind Beside Itself", "The Twelve Step Suite", and "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" aren't suites, but song cycles. Suites are collections of thematically related instrumental pieces (usually based in dance music, but not always) that are often played together. Song cycles are collections of 2 or more songs (usually thematically related in both lyrics and music) that can be played separately or all together, with each song being completely whole in and of itself. So, really, the only suite that they've written is...wait for it, "False Awakening Suite". Splitting hairs, but the abuse of the term "suite" in prog is a pet peeve of mine (alongside random quotations of classical music with much worse arrangements, which DT doesn't do too often thankfully).
-Speaking of TTSS, the transition from that full band unison to the synth solo in "The Root of All Evil" is magical.
-The Octavarium album as a whole is wonderfully well-written and there's obviously a lot of thought that went into writing it. It gets much more flak than it deserves imo. The way they weave that main "Octavarium" theme throughout the other songs on the album is a thing of beauty.
-The coda to "In the Name of God" goes on for too long.
-"Raw Dog" and "Prophets of War" are okay. Not amazing, but they're pretty decent in their own right.
-"Sacrificed Sons" is easily one of their best songs. Fight me.
-The Astonishing is one of the best pieces of music written in the last 70 years. Fight me x2.
-I like James LaBrie's singing most of the time. Fight me x3.