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Sopranos was pretty iconic. "Woke up this morning... "
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Vitamin P posted:BSG and Buffy are the only shows I can think of where the intro music actually added in a 'more than the sum of its parts' way. Maybe Scrubs and Firefly. Maybe I'm not understanding the exercise, because True Detective, Mad Men, Halt & Catch Fire, Vikings, and tons more examples of recent dramas have fantastic intro themes that do a lot to set tone, setting, and theme. I'm not even that big a fan of Walking Dead, but the theme music and intro sequence are fantastic. (Seriously, though, Halt & Catch Fire has an insanely awesome intro.)
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Xealot posted:Maybe I'm not understanding the exercise, because True Detective, Mad Men, Halt & Catch Fire, Vikings, and tons more examples of recent dramas have fantastic intro themes that do a lot to set tone, setting, and theme. Halt & Catch Fire has such a good intro. It's so simple and says everything all at once, it really is an amazing piece of work. dem dirty wafers
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Vitamin P posted:BSG and Buffy are the only shows I can think of where the intro music actually added in a 'more than the sum of its parts' way. Maybe Scrubs and Firefly. There are definitely a lot of shows where the intro theme has become evocative of the show. Whether it is necessary to it (in term of setting the mood and such), I think, boils down to a lot of opinion. Deep Space 9's theme, for example, is very majestic and lonely and fitting for an outpost on the edge of nowhere (which then becomes the center of everything because it's a fokkin TV show), but it's hard to say whether it's necessary to the show, or if those feelings are because I already strongly associate it with the show.
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Sep 10, 2015 04:26
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Wrong, idiots! The correct answer was Psych.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:08
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Sorry, the correct answer is Freakazoid.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:18
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Aphrodite posted:Wrong, idiots! The correct answer was Psych. You know that's right. Also, I don't know what it adds, but I really like Marco Polo's intro
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Sep 10, 2015 07:10
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I'm a thousand posts out. Have I missed anything?
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Sep 10, 2015 07:23
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Kilo147 posted:I'm a thousand posts out. Have I missed anything? Dubsmashwars. There's a good roundup a few pages back, and then the new ones are here: https://www.crowdrise.com/dubsmashwars
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Sep 10, 2015 07:25
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Red Oktober posted:Dubsmashwars. There's a good roundup a few pages back, and then the new ones are here: https://www.crowdrise.com/dubsmashwars I can't not vote for Clark Gregg 
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Vitamin P posted:BSG and Buffy are the only shows I can think of where the intro music actually added in a 'more than the sum of its parts' way. Maybe Scrubs and Firefly. Babylon 5's ever-changing intro music, particularly the third season's when the poo poo hit the fan and the music reflected it.
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Sep 10, 2015 07:46
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jng2058 posted:Babylon 5's ever-changing intro music, particularly the third season's when the poo poo hit the fan and the music reflected it. boom boom SCREETCH, boom boom SCREETCH...
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Sep 10, 2015 11:21
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Ugh yeah B5's music was very 90s but it they did some fantastic stuff with the themes, especially that season 3 opener which was an extended version of the battle in The Long Twilight Struggle.
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Sep 10, 2015 12:54
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Unf the Babylon 5 openings were so baller.
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BlueBayou posted:Unf the Babylon 5 openings were so baller. Right? That gradual progression to hey, we're a place of peace and diplomacy to work out problems between the races of the galaxy, to we give no shits because it is the end and the beginning. B5 derails are the best. hope and vaseline fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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hope and vaseline posted:Right? That gradual progression to hey, we're a place of peace and diplomacy to work out problems between the races of the galaxy, to we give no shits because it is the end and the beginning. Better than dubsmash, anyway. 
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Sep 10, 2015 16:47
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hope and vaseline posted:Right? That gradual progression to hey, we're a place of peace and diplomacy to work out problems between the races of the galaxy, to we give no shits because it is the end and the beginning. Someone needs to produce a new space show quick. A new Star Trek or something. So many classic shows from that period: TNG, DS9, B5, Farscape, Andromeda.
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Sep 10, 2015 19:59
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NASA isn't really as big as it used to be. Maybe if the new show was about social media?
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:NASA isn't really as big as it used to be. "Myspace...the final frontier." I know Myspace isn't a thing anymore, but the pun works better that way.
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hope and vaseline posted:Right? That gradual progression to hey, we're a place of peace and diplomacy to work out problems between the races of the galaxy, to we give no shits because it is the end and the beginning. So what you're really saying is that Marvel needs to start a new TV show written and produced by JMS, seeing as he's about the only writer Marvel comics ever had who wrote comics after successfully producing a TV show. It wouldn't even be his first time handling stuff in the MCU, since he wrote the script for Thor 1.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:41
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Sorry if i'm a little late to the discussion but when it comes to great intros i have to remind everyone of Banshee. Music is badass and the subtle foreshadowing changes to the sequence is genius in itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsG-UTHWMs
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HotCanadianChick posted:So what you're really saying is that Marvel needs to start a new TV show written and produced by JMS, seeing as he's about the only writer Marvel comics ever had who wrote comics after successfully producing a TV show. Off the top of my head I can think of Allan Heinberg who created the excellent Young Avengers after stints on prime time soaps like The OC and Party of Five, and Reginald Hudlin who was the president of BET and wrote a much maligned Black Panther run. JMS has burned quite a few bridges with Marvel though so I doubt he'd come back anytime soon.
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hope and vaseline posted:JMS has burned quite a few bridges with Marvel though so I doubt he'd come back anytime soon.
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hope and vaseline posted:Right? That gradual progression to hey, we're a place of peace and diplomacy to work out problems between the races of the galaxy, to we give no shits because it is the end and the beginning. Wing Commander 6 looking good kayakyakr posted:Someone needs to produce a new space show quick. A new Star Trek or something. So many classic shows from that period: TNG, DS9, B5, Farscape, Andromeda. I think it's insane that they haven't made a new Star Trek show, like what the gently caress are they doing. There's no way that won't be a huge hit in today's TV environment
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Sep 10, 2015 23:19
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hope and vaseline posted:Off the top of my head I can think of Allan Heinberg who created the excellent Young Avengers after stints on prime time soaps like The OC and Party of Five, and Reginald Hudlin who was the president of BET and wrote a much maligned Black Panther run. JMS has burned quite a few bridges with Marvel though so I doubt he'd come back anytime soon. And a minor talent Marvel might have forgotten by the name of Joss Whedon. Dude didn't just make movies for them, he wrote one of the seminal runs of X-Men.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:23
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Hakkesshu posted:Wing Commander 6 looking good Michael Dorn has been trying to get a "Chronicles of Worf" show going some time now.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:24
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Gaz-L posted:And a minor talent Marvel might have forgotten by the name of Joss Whedon. Dude didn't just make movies for them, he wrote one of the seminal runs of X-Men. Well I just assumed everyone knew about that Whedon guy
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I don't know if Whedon will work with Marvel again after talking about the issues he had making Avengers 2.
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hope and vaseline posted:Well I just assumed everyone knew about that Whedon guy Sorry, my post was pretty badly phrased, I'd meant to say he was pretty much the first TV show producer to start writing at Marvel, not the only one. As far as some drama occurring between him and Marvel, I'd never heard of that (I try to avoid following comic industry news precisely because there are too many stories of people acting like petulant manchildren in it). It's a shame, as he might have been a good choice as a show runner for a Marvel show.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:38
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Hakkesshu posted:Wing Commander 6 looking good Supposedly CBS thinks the movie failure of Nemesis was because of franchise fatigue from having too many Star Trek shows on TV for too long, and in order to avoid that they now want to minimize how much Trek they make - i.e., no new TV series.
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XboxPants posted:Supposedly CBS thinks the movie failure of Nemesis was because of franchise fatigue I don't disagree with this. By that point Star Trek had become so complacent. Everything felt so rote and perfunctory.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:45
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Phylodox posted:I don't disagree with this. By that point Star Trek had become so complacent. Everything felt so rote and perfunctory. It just seems like a victim of timing and curious decision making. Just before "nerdy" became trendy, and after TNG got long in the tooth. I mean, Nemesis came out 4 years after the bleh Insurrection and 8 years after the series ended. Voyager was pretty bleh, and the Enterprise series just sucked, a bad idea all around. There was no reason to expect Nemesis to do well. The series needed a good reboot, which came what, 7 years later?
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A Star Trek TV show right now would be a competing property with the movies and CBS doesn't want to do that. TV and movie rights for the franchise are held by different owners.
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Pander posted:It just seems like a victim of timing and curious decision making. Just before "nerdy" became trendy, and after TNG got long in the tooth. I mean, Nemesis came out 4 years after the bleh Insurrection and 8 years after the series ended. Voyager was pretty bleh, and the Enterprise series just sucked, a bad idea all around. There was no reason to expect Nemesis to do well. The series needed a good reboot, which came what, 7 years later? Also they let a guy write it who had never seen an episode of Star Trek and knew literally nothing about it. That didn't help.
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The MSJ posted:I don't know if Whedon will work with Marvel again after talking about the issues he had making Avengers 2. Except the creative committee is now defunct, and most of the fuckery came from them.
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XboxPants posted:Supposedly CBS thinks the movie failure of Nemesis was because of franchise fatigue from having too many Star Trek shows on TV for too long, and in order to avoid that they now want to minimize how much Trek they make - i.e., no new TV series. bull3964 posted:A Star Trek TV show right now would be a competing property with the movies and CBS doesn't want to do that. TV and movie rights for the franchise are held by different owners. TV series and merchandising is controlled by CBS who is not exactly known to be forward thinking. Abrams had a whole plan in place to cover a bunch of different formats including a TV series and a whole chain of movies. CBS dragged their feet, Abrams gave up, went to do the same for Star Wars. A new timeline Stargazer series on Netflix or a lower-decks series on HBO could be so good.
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That's fine, his talents are better suited for Star Wars anyways. I really wouldn't want an JJ helmed TV series.
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The MSJ posted:I don't know if Whedon will work with Marvel again after talking about the issues he had making Avengers 2. In the last interview he did before taking a break he said that the disagreements were minor, and of the sort that happens any time you are working on other peoples projects, and he would be interested in working with them again. There is always a problem when you do text transcripts of Whedon interviews, it often lacks the context of how he says things. So things that you can clearly hear are him making jokes, often comes out super serious. In other words the issues he had with Marvel were wildly exaggerated.
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I mean, the guy went back to Fox after the Firefly nonsense. I don't think anything Marvel supposedly did would ever compare. (Especially since his own production company is still making a TV show for the TV side of Marvel.)
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Sci-fi shows had amazing intros in the past. No one has guitar work like this anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLAsBzOOhLQ Though Blake's 7 clearly had a reason for sounding similar to the Star Trek Theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlSgxLE5ydk You know, the BBC should make a new Blake's 7. Anyways, Agents of SHIELD, I really hope they fill out the cast with some interesting and recognizable characters. Also, hoping for that Kree infiltrator subplot. I mean both Noh-varr and Mar-vell would be good TV level characters for a single episode.
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