Honestly, the more time passes by the less I listen to TA (last years I was only listening to the middle of disk 2).
I like my DT very proggy and epic, so the album was supposed to get immediate praise from me.
There are definitely some genius songwriting moments, but at the end of the day the cons wins.
-Quiet songs are too folkish/cheesy
-There is no narrator and the limitation to one voice is FAR from Ayreon styled dialogs. I'm French and without the booklet it's hard to guess who is talking.
-Sounds like only JP and JR had fun and collaborated
-It's super long, some parts are just fillers. The build ups doesn't lead to epic explosive songs except some in disk 2 when people die.
-It's not an album you can share a listen with anybody.
Over time, I really have an issue with the identity of the album, I think it lacked a decisive choice like one of those :
1) Making it aimed to the mass : Easy songs, catchy themes and tunes.
2) Having several singers : That would have emphasized on the Broadway side of it
3) Making it heavier and proggy : A dystopian story played by such virtuosos should have become a staple with famous concept albums
4) Getting a director to bring the project upper
Honestly, it's what I felt watching Score, I was like "Metallica called Michael Kamen, this is not as good as S&M"
That was only about the astonishing, I'm still a hardcore fan of 60% of DT's work