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  • #571
    Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

    Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
    You need to watch more high quality TV. Most of the HBO series, and the high quality AMC, or FX series have intro music and sequences. Just to name a few: Game of Thrones, The Leftovers, The Americans, Westworld, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire.
    American Gods has the most exciting, most intelligent, most disturbing opening in television history. I'm not even the adolescent male the show is aimed at and I still want to run through a brick wall / reproduce / kill myself after watching it.

    Here is the full explanation.
    Last edited by Kepler; 12-11-2017, 09:26 AM.
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    • #572
      Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      American Gods has the most exciting, most intelligent, most disturbing opening in television history. I'm not even the adolescent male the show is aimed at and I still want to run through a brick wall / kill myself after watching it.
      I've seen that, but only once, since I didn't get past episode 1. Watched 1 episode on a free trial, and then didn't sign up for Starz.

      I would say that the best of the shows I watch is Westworld. That opening is just perfect for the show.
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      • #573
        Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

        Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
        I've seen that, but only once, since I didn't get past episode 1. Watched 1 episode on a free trial, and then didn't sign up for Starz.

        I would say that the best of the shows I watch is Westworld. That opening is just perfect for the show.
        It is. Westworld is amazing in every way possible, and the opening is sublime.

        If you enjoy Westworld I really, really, really encourage you to hang with American Gods. There is stuff about it not to like (like I said, the overheated immaturity surrounding it is off-putting) but (1) they have to pay the bills somehow and a show that is a gift to about 25,000 strange people in the whole country is going to need steerage bookings to break even, and (2) it's a well thought-out show with beautiful mise en scene. As with Gaiman himself half the fun is laughing not with but at his pretentiousness, but for all that it works -- plus he's f-cking Amanda Palmer and we're not so who are we to judge?
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        • #574
          Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          It is. Westworld is amazing in every way possible, and the opening is sublime.

          If you enjoy Westworld I really, really, really encourage you to hang with American Gods. There is stuff about it not to like (like I said, the overheated immaturity surrounding it is off-putting) but (1) they have to pay the bills somehow and a show that is a gift to about 25,000 strange people in the whole country is going to need steerage bookings to break even, and (2) it's a well thought-out show with beautiful mise en scene. As with Gaiman himself half the fun is laughing not with but at his pretentiousness, but for all that it works -- plus he's f-cking Amanda Palmer and we're not so who are we to judge?
          I will watch American Gods, I'm just waiting for it to show up on Netflix or Prime, so I don't have to pay for Starz.
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          • #575
            Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

            Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
            I will watch American Gods, I'm just waiting for it to show up on Netflix or Prime, so I don't have to pay for Starz.
            We don't have Starz and we watch it somehow. Prolly Fios PPV. I'll ask Dr. Mrs., she's in charge of that.

            Edit: we watch it through Amazon prime.
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            • #576
              Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              We don't have Starz and we watch it somehow. Prolly Fios PPV. I'll ask Dr. Mrs., she's in charge of that.

              Edit: we watch it through Amazon prime.
              We have Prime, but I think that was one that you had to pay for separately through Prime, not included in the regular Prime subscription. If I'm wrong about that, let me know, because I will be able to watch it if it is included in Prime.

              I know it isn't that expensive to just pay for it, but I figure we spend enough on this stuff, and as long as there are still shows I want to watch, that I haven't gotten to on Netflix and Prime I'll just keep plugging away at them. I still haven't gotten to the latest seasons of Narcos or Stranger Things, and I didn't watch Mindhunter yet, so I have plenty of stuff on Netflix to watch. I also currently have a Showtime subscription, so I can catch up on shows I've missed there over the last several years. Just caught up on Ray Donovan over the weekend, and might do Homeland next, though I'm dreading Homeland, since the last season I watched was godawful.
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              • #577
                Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                We have Prime, but I think that was one that you had to pay for separately through Prime, not included in the regular Prime subscription. If I'm wrong about that, let me know, because I will be able to watch it if it is included in Prime.
                Dr. Mrs. says it's free with Prime.

                I didn't watch Mindhunter yet,
                Oh, ho, ho -- you are in for a treat. Also watch American Vandal if you haven't, on Netflix. It's f-cking brilliant.

                We are in the golden age of television. This is the first time in history a massive number of shows have been created and released strictly for smart people. We no longer need to dumb it down to generate the mass audiences we used to. And we no longer have to be politically correct not to offend all the conservative religious / political snowflakes.

                I wish we could somehow do the same with politics.
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                • #578
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                  • #579
                    Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                    Want to watch American Gods, first fiction book I had read in a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNG time that I loved. Even liked. But will be patient and catch it on streaming at my convenience.

                    bbdl: I think you'll like Mindhunter. You loved S1 of True Detective....similar feel to it. Slow, methodical, dark, creepy, intelligent.
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                    • #580
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                      I figure most find The Punisher too slow, but I have stuck with it through episode 8 and I'm really digging it.
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                      • #581
                        Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        Dr. Mrs. says it's free with Prime.
                        She lied. It's PPV with Fios. About $2 an episode. Well worth it IMHO.
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                        • #582
                          Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                          Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                          One thing I sort of miss in today's television shows compared to those from a few decades ago: a great opening sequence.*
                          The gold standard will always be Game of Thrones. I still believe that would be a far better show if they just looped the opening credits for 50 minutes every week. And to your point, that's probably the only opening that has had any sort of cultural relevance outside of TV since....Friends?(I'm not counting the Law and Order noise) Odds are you'll hear the band play the GoT theme at the next college hockey game you go to. All the other HBO prestige dramas(Deadwood, Wire, Sopranos, Boardwalk) have competent, acceptable opening sequences, but your band isn't playing Tom Waits.

                          Some of the Netflix openings are great. The opening sequence for Bojack Horseman is incredible. Glow has a cool opening too, though obviously not original music.
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                          • #583
                            Re: TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

                            Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
                            The gold standard will always be Game of Thrones. I still believe that would be a far better show if they just looped the opening credits for 50 minutes every week. And to your point, that's probably the only opening that has had any sort of cultural relevance outside of TV since....Friends?(I'm not counting the Law and Order noise) Odds are you'll hear the band play the GoT theme at the next college hockey game you go to. All the other HBO prestige dramas(Deadwood, Wire, Sopranos, Boardwalk) have competent, acceptable opening sequences, but your band isn't playing Tom Waits.

                            Some of the Netflix openings are great. The opening sequence for Bojack Horseman is incredible. Glow has a cool opening too, though obviously not original music.
                            It might just be a generational thing, but for me the gold standard opening for a television show will always be ABC's Wide World of Sports. The music and voiceover are iconic. And candidly, I just never tired of seeing Vinko Bogataj.
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                            • #584
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                              "Stranger Things" opening is pretty good and memorable. "House of Cards" too. But neither at the level of older shows, though.

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                              • #585
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                                I was always partial to N.Y.P.D.
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