30 days of television: Day 18
Jul. 15th, 2010 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccDay 18 - Favorite title sequence
At the moment it's True Blood, hands down. Partly the really dodgy song, partly because even though I'm half way through the second series on DVD I still haven't worked out what all the images are yet, partly because it sets place and time.
Other than that I really liked Battlestar Galactica's opening credits, particularly when they started giving the number of remaining humans. There were a couple of episodes where the opening number had both of us gasping - how many people were killed in that incident? Also the whole "some look human. Some believe they are human" cylon part of the credits was very nicely done, and a good catch up if you missed the opening miniseries (as I did).
Babylon 5 season three credits I really liked - a lot less cheesy than the previous two series, and better CGI. Probably most of what I liked was the shot of Londo looking as a battlecruiser burned - I actually don't know which episode that was from, if any, but it was a great shot. That and Vir doing his sarcastic "wave" to Morden. Once I'd realised that that was that scene it amused me every episode.
Amazing Race - I love the opening sequence of series 1, not least because they used shots from the series. This meant that I spent quite a bit of time guessing where they were going to go based entirely on the opening credits. Unfortunately they now use stock footage of major monuments, so I can't do that any more. (At least they haven't used a bloody stock footage koala for a while.)
Edited to add:
Die Kinder. That was a really good opening sequence - the first episode started with a squeaky pram wheel as almost the entire sequence, and by the end of the miniseries the sequence had expanded so that you knew what was in the pram, who was pushing it, where it went and what happened. It was a really good sequence.
At the moment it's True Blood, hands down. Partly the really dodgy song, partly because even though I'm half way through the second series on DVD I still haven't worked out what all the images are yet, partly because it sets place and time.
Other than that I really liked Battlestar Galactica's opening credits, particularly when they started giving the number of remaining humans. There were a couple of episodes where the opening number had both of us gasping - how many people were killed in that incident? Also the whole "some look human. Some believe they are human" cylon part of the credits was very nicely done, and a good catch up if you missed the opening miniseries (as I did).
Babylon 5 season three credits I really liked - a lot less cheesy than the previous two series, and better CGI. Probably most of what I liked was the shot of Londo looking as a battlecruiser burned - I actually don't know which episode that was from, if any, but it was a great shot. That and Vir doing his sarcastic "wave" to Morden. Once I'd realised that that was that scene it amused me every episode.
Amazing Race - I love the opening sequence of series 1, not least because they used shots from the series. This meant that I spent quite a bit of time guessing where they were going to go based entirely on the opening credits. Unfortunately they now use stock footage of major monuments, so I can't do that any more. (At least they haven't used a bloody stock footage koala for a while.)
Edited to add:
Die Kinder. That was a really good opening sequence - the first episode started with a squeaky pram wheel as almost the entire sequence, and by the end of the miniseries the sequence had expanded so that you knew what was in the pram, who was pushing it, where it went and what happened. It was a really good sequence.
