Spoilers Main Title Sequence
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I love me a fancy motion graphics sequence like that. It was very much the kinda look I was hoping for, albeit a bit more stylized that I was expecting. *thumbs up*
Thumbs up from me as well. I was a little unsure when i saw them on youtube, but after watching the episode, i really dig them.
It looks significantly better with the titles, as Sakonna and probably several others have said. It looks weirdly bare without them because it's easy to see where it's been spaced and primed for them to swoosh in, especially at the end.
I love the symbolism. The music... the music I like. Not hugely, but.
Edited to add: Yeah, cultcross brings up a good point about that spoiler.
I love the symbolism. The music... the music I like. Not hugely, but.
Edited to add: Yeah, cultcross brings up a good point about that spoiler.
Yeah -- If someone is only keying on the weapons (the phaser and bat'leth) and calling that an "emphasis", then they are trying too hard to look for an emphasis that isn't there.
In reality, that opening sequence also featured the ship, the communicator, the EVA suit, the Vulcan Salute, plus the (I think silly and forced) allusion to Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam". The bat'leth was actually shown twice, with the second time probably alluding to the Klingons being a threat to the Federation (i.e., the ship flying between two bat'leths.)
However, none of those things seemed particularly emphasized above another.
This.
There's no need to turn Berman into a scapegoat for things he had no control over.
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It's emphasized by the fact that its part of the intro at all. I'm not talking about emphasis within the title sequence itself.
I'm wondering how many hints and clue we're getting in this sequence?
- Lorca says in the trailer about how the Discovery exists to 'find a whole new way to fly' or something like that. The crystals at the beginning - some kind of new, more refined dilithium, perhaps, to help increase speeds?
- Stamets is an astromycologist (studies space fungi) and apparently his work will become crucial to the war. and he will have to deal with his feelings on that. The opening flower could be a connection to that? Yes, fungi and flowers are very different, but they were both historically linked untilk relatively recently.
- Lorca says in the trailer about how the Discovery exists to 'find a whole new way to fly' or something like that. The crystals at the beginning - some kind of new, more refined dilithium, perhaps, to help increase speeds?
- Stamets is an astromycologist (studies space fungi) and apparently his work will become crucial to the war. and he will have to deal with his feelings on that. The opening flower could be a connection to that? Yes, fungi and flowers are very different, but they were both historically linked untilk relatively recently.
It's a good title sequence, better visuals and design than the Berman era fly by the planets stuff... but the theme music is just ok, not great.
Voyager still has the best theme of any show that isn't TOS.
Voyager still has the best theme of any show that isn't TOS.
The Phaser is a recognizable symbol of TOS Star Trek. The Bat'leth is a symbol of Klingons (albeit first seen in TNG trek). The use of those images in the opening sequence was more likely to show us those familiar symbols so we could recognize DSC as being "familiar Trek", rather than being used to symbolize "weaponry".
Again, I think you are grasping at straws looking for a reason to say "DSC is trying to emphasize weapons and war". It may be true that this first season will revolve around a war with the Klingons, but it has already been stated that the crew are explorers first, not soldiers. The main characters enter this was begrudgingly, and would rather be exploring.
I'm not making a big deal of it. I simply prefer weapons not be part of it. There's a lot of things you could put in there besides a phaser.
I don't hate the intro overall. It's okay.
Yeah, but like I said, weapon or not, the Phaser is (along with the Communicator) the most familar of TOS-era props. You show a phaser and communicator, and you just said "this is like TOS" to the TOS generation of fans.
Simlar for the Bat'leth. To the TNG generation of fans, the Bat'leth is the most recognizable single prop that says "Klingon", weapon or not.
So it seems to me that if someone wants to make an opening with visuals that are supposed to tell existing fans "this is Star Trek", then it would seem unfair to have Phasers and Bat'leths as being off-limits just because they are weapons. It may be true that those instantly recognizable props are weapons, but they are what they are.
Who thought it was a good idea to have no space between lines of text in the titles? It's really annoying.
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