• 5Mar 08

  The thing about intros

  We all love tv right? But sometimes intro/theme/credits bit makes you want to scream at the tv to just get on with it, am I not right? They are often so boring. Even if you love those actors you don't need to see the same clip with their name on it every single episode.
  
  But, some intros are nice.
  I just want to comment on some... because well, I always think about it when I watch a show XD
  
  Now, it doesn't matter if I love a show to damn pieces, the intro can still be boring.
  Farscape for example, best show ever made, but the first two seasons were pretty dull when it came to te intro. Here however we had a nice voice over... which got better in the other two seasons, as well as the sty*le (tv.com, what to you want? that's a normal word!) of the intro itself. Obscure text floating by and such.
  Firefly? Another hsow that I love to bits, yeah... not too much love on the intro there. Remember, I'm not talking about the music, but on everything combined. Because the song is really nice for Firefly, but overall the little clip is a bit boring.
  Stargate is boring too, first one for SG1? Insanely boring >.< With the statue you know? Yuck. Atlantis is a bit better with everything being blue and the picture freezing. Still boring though, and not really that synced with the music.
  
  Good ones then?
  Gotta say, I love the CSI ones. Music is awsome and very fitting, and not actually written for the show. I like that all three shows have a song by the Who. The sty*le of the video is really nice too. Very graphic. I haven't watched much Miami or Vegas lately so I'll just comment on NY. The song kicks ass (and I prefer the version for s1 to 3 thankyouverymuch, more like the original) and I love how the actors' names like float by in big letter that you don't really notice and then they come to the readable version (especially like Eddie's in s4... red letters dissolving into blood behind the white XD)
  
  Loved 4400's, so stylistic and beautiful (stuff aging). Seriously, I liked the intro better than the show XD
  Same thing with House MD, well the show is good I just haven't watched much of it. But the intro is, just like 4400, very stylistic and graphical. Probably the most goodlookin intro I've seen.
  
  And from a graphic point of view Criminal Minds is really nice too. With boxes and stuff.
  
  I like Battlestar Galactica's too. The music is absolutely beautiful. Both American and European version. And the video is just of ships and with the basic story line in nice text, lingering on certain words. It's pretty. And then it moves into a very quick teaser of the episode. To me, that never shows too much, just makes it a bit more interesting. And it's so nicely matched to the music. On every beat the clip changes.

  
  And finally the ones I like the most XD And that's Supernatural and current ER. Just the logo and it's done. Back to the story XD
  Cause no matter how awsome an intro looks, to me it does start to get boring after a while XD I have watched lots of CSI NY lately, marathoning it really. It's still such a good intro that I don't skip it, but I'm not particulary enjoying it anymore you know. It's just there. Depending on my mood of the moment I might look at the random stuff they throw in though. For graphic inspiration purposes ^^
  
  
  There are loads more out there. Mostly boring ones (sitcoms are always boring imo), but I'm sure there are good ones too.
  What's your opinion?

  • Posted Mar 5, 2008 6:33 am PT
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• 1Feb 08

  BSG destroyed scifi for me

  Battlestar Galactica destroyed sci fi for me.

  Yes it did, but hear me out ok?

  After having seen BSG in a week, lived with it you might say, I can't fully enjoy other sci fi as I used to (with the exception of Farscape and Firefly, I'll mention them later). It feels unreal, shallow, cliché and occasionally even badly acted.

  Why? BSG spoiled me, it really did. It plays in a league of its own. The characters feel so real, so human. They are flawed, they hurt, they scar, they love, they die. The ship feels real too, it isn't too "far out". It isn't run by a super smart computer and you can't just press a button or say "computer, do this and that". It doesn't have an energy field around it with blinking percentage showing up at a screen and someone saying that shield's are down. It's a tin can, and it's run by people. It has keys, levers, phones with cords… and people. And they turn the keys, pull the levers, and needs to find a phone whenever they want to contact someone. And there's someone at every little station imaginary. No single computer whiz doing it all. It feels like it's inhabited. People live on that ship.

  There isn't some advanced alien race looking like us (having evolved to almost the same thing at exactly the same time in the eternity that is the universe) wanting us dead. The enemy is our own creation, we built them. And it isn't about heroes and all good men and women. It's the few shards left of humanity… on the run. Trying to find somewhere to live, somewhere to restart civilisation.

  They aren't "superheroes". They don't succeed with everything. They cheat, they fail, they lose.

  It all feels so real.

  And the acting is superb. You believe them.

  I was so caught up in this show; I believed in the characters so much that I didn't recognize actors that I really should. I am the kind of person who recognizes people from a guest spot on a show I saw two years ago. But in this they aren't actors, the characters are real.

  Yep, can't watch sci fi in the same way anymore.

  But, you say, what about Farscape and Firefly that you mentioned in the beginning?

  Yeah, those two shows (the ones that own my heart) still feel as good. But then again, when reading the essay collection books on those shows you find them mentioning each other, saying that they're different. I agree completely.

  The reason Firefly didn't destroy my view of sci fi? It was so short. But it was the same thing there. Real people, a ship that was a home not a computer and superb actors.

  Farscape just kidnapped my heart. The acting and writing was so good. But yes, here you have loads of aliens (looking like us) and not a ship that is an inhabited tin can but a living being (although, that is the thing, it's really alive, and she has her own problems and mood swings sometimes). I won't go deeper on this show, because I won't be able to stop. But yeah, I could surely suspend disbelief for this, maybe largely because Crichton was from here and now. And the people stuff mentioned above still apply to all these characters, even the aliens. The reason it didn't frell up sci fi? I'm not sure, probably because it was quite a funny show at times (light hearted stuff doesn't have the same effect) but also that it had such heavy drama, just like BSG does... (and an insane plethora or aliens)
  

  I already miss being able to enjoy the other shows the same way, but I wouldn't want to trade it back. No frakking way!

  • Posted Feb 1, 2008 7:58 am PT
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• 27Oct 07

  Bryan Fuller

  I think I really need a Bryan Fuller dvd collection. At least his "creations" so to speak. He makes such wonderful things. Even if we ignore Heroes (which I've already written that I love) and Star Trek (of which Voyager... which he wrote for... was my first fandom) his original creations or whatever... his shows... they make me happy and have something special. Something in common that I can't really put my finger on. But something that makes them really good. And I suddenly feel a need to get them on dvd. Now, that wouldn't be too hard since that is 3 box sets XD

  A while ago I watched Dead Like Me, and I loved it (which makes two box sets). And about a week or so ago I just sucked in Wonderfalls and loved it to pieces (and that's the third dvd box). Both of them have that little weird quirky feel. And a girl that is "normal" or well, yeah, she is for like a minute or something. Still, leading a normal and boring life until something happens (she either gets hit by a toilet or faints cause a wax lion talked to her)... but she doesn't miracously change. She's still the same person, someone you can identify with, but she has to deal with this weird thing going on. And the rest of the characters then just happens to plainly rock XD And so does all the actors.

  Now, you think, isn't she forgetting a show? No, I say, she is not.

  Yeah, Pushing Daisies. Now, this doesn't count into the "I need a dvd collection" because it's fresh tv meat. When the dvd comes out, I kinda need it though XD You see, about two weeks ago a friend said I should watch it and that I might like it. I gave it a shot and only a couple of minutes had to go by before I was completely in love. Such an amazing show! Sweet, adorable, cute, beautiful, funny, quirky... just awsome. I tend to go "aaaaw" out loud a lot when I watch it XD

  It was after that I thought that "hey, DLM was good and this is amazing, maybe I should try that Wonderfall one... and I did and I realised that Bryan Fuller just manages to make tv that just makes me so happy. Which means that whatever he decides to create after Pushing Daisies, I will be there immedeately.

  Don't have the money now sinc eI have a trip to London planned. Maybe I can get Wonderfalls for Christmas or something...

  • Posted Oct 27, 2007 3:42 pm PT
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