Elyse Levesque interview

[TheInsideMan]

Good interview, contains some very mild spoilers for future episodes:
http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/s...e-universes-elyse-levesque-growing-pains.html

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Isnt it sad that I had no idea that was the name of Chloe's actress?

I miss the old SG title sequences where we saw a face to go with the names in the credits.

 

[Brent]

Yeah, I didn't know the name either until I opened up the webpage

 

[TheInsideMan]

Isnt it sad that I had no idea that was the name of Chloe's actress?

Yeah, I didn't know the name either until I opened up the webpage

Shame on you both!

 

[The Wormhole]

I miss the old SG title sequences where we saw a face to go with the names in the credits.

Sadly, opening credits sequences are becoming very rare on television these days. Hell, the first half of seasons 9 of SG-1 and 2 of Atlantis didn't have credit sequences when they first aired, though they were inserted when the seasons went to DVD.

 

[Starbreaker]

Theme songs mean less story time.

 

[The Wormhole]

Is that really the reason, though? While I don't deny it's a factor, especially due to the increasing length of commercial breaks, I suspect there is more at play. After all, opening cresit seuquences have practically been eliminated from movies, where commercials and time slots are not a factor at all.

 

[Starbreaker]

I think it has to do with trying to get people to not change the channel, too.

 

[Harvey]

Is that really the reason, though? While I don't deny it's a factor, especially due to the increasing length of commercial breaks, I suspect there is more at play. After all, opening cresit seuquences have practically been eliminated from movies, where commercials and time slots are not a factor at all.

That's a trend that has been popular with movies, particularly commercial blockbusters, for quite a few years now. It goes back at least as far as LETHAL WEAPON 2 (1989), which just has a title card at the beginning, holding the credits until the end of the movie.

 

[The Wormhole]

Still, throughout the 1990s opening credits were still quite common in movies, even if they were slowly being abandoned.

But I'd say since the 2000s movies with opening credits are very rare indeed. Hell, even the last two Star Trek movies lacked opening credits. In fact, aside from the Bond movies, do opening credit sequences even exist anymore?

 

[Harvey]

Sure they exist. Just not in very many big, commercial blockbusters (outside of the Bond films, where they're part of the formula).

MOON, for example, has a wonderful main title sequence.

Perhaps that website lists more, I just found it by google search.