Which Soap has the Best Opening?

[LuLu_and_Chelsea_Fan]

I have to say of course days of our lives does, it orginal of course but if it isn't broken don't fix it. Days of our lives had the same since the beginning, yea they made some tiny changes with it but they never will change it like example showing the cast, corday/days isnt disrespecting the casts, its just the hourglass and likes sands through the hourglass is days trademark and like i said before if it isnt broken DONT FIX IT.

Days will always have that opening ALWAYS.

I also like the general hospital one too but they should show more LuLu in the opening. Who wants to sign a petition to put more lulu in the opening lol. Or maybe just put just sonny/carly/jax and jerry, jason/elizabeth/sam and lucky in there because that is what GH is all about anymore.

so what do u posters think is the best one and why. I did this because i am insterested to here people thoughts. please

and why too

[psychofan]

Alright....I'll play along, even though the only two soaps you can justify are DAYS and GH.

I know that I'm in the minority and will probably get blasted for this, I don't really care for the DAYS opening. I think that they should start the opening with the hourglass and original music and then have a peak of music and start showing the cast members one by one or in pairs, or whatever. Then at the end it can revert back to the hourglass. I imagine that if it gets picked up by ABC, it will have something like that (the ABC shows tend to make their openings out of the cast members bumper shots).

I enjoy the GH opening, although it's a bit too flashy. I like it better than the old one.

AMC is a great one. The music is great and I love the flying pictures. Everyone's shot seems to be in an appropriate place (begining with Erica/ending with erica; placing Ryan, Kendall, and Zach at the begining, etc).

ATWT's new one is definately my favorite. I love the music and I love the shots of everyone (even though I would like to see Jade in there ). I find myself NEVER Fast forwarding through it because I love watching it so much!

I enjoy the Passions theme song, but like DAYS, they should have shots of people in the cast...that just makes an opening more enjoyable to me.

B&B has a so-so one. Nothing bad about it but nothing unbelievably good about it.

I haven't watched GL in a while, but are they still using the 70th anniversary opening? I hate that thing. I really loved the opening that they had in 2006.

Y&R's opening sucks...it's just so boring (much like the show itself in it's current state).

OLTL's is okay. I preferred the "blue" opening that they used to have with a different rendition of the current theme.

So...my ranking:

1. ATWT

2. AMC

3. GH

4. B&B

5. OLTL

6. PSSNS

7. DAYS

8. Y&R

9. GL

[LuLu_and_Chelsea_Fan]

good choices, i agree with youm Y&R SUKS, but for GH SHould have more LuLu lol GOD I LOVE HER

if abc picks days up in 2009 IF nbc drops it, most likely abc will because they always had insterest in days.

Ken Corday will not allow abc to change the opening, he is the owner of days and days had that opening from the beginning and if corday didnt change it when his parents died and kept it till now, he wont change it he wont. ABC may have rights to days but corday will still be in charge and what he says GOES. ABC wont dare change a opening that sayed the same since the beginning. IF IT ISNT BROKE THEN DONT FIX IT. If abc picks up days, They wont have rights to it, well they will but not the same as Ken Corday

also i can agree with you, the ATWT one is good too although i dont watch that soap

heres mine ranking

1. DOOL 2. GH 3. OLTL 4. ATWT 5.PASSIONS 6. AMC 7.B@B 8.GL 9. Y&R

[Laurie]

I love the ATWT theme music when it picks up at Bob's pic

I prefer GH's Faces of the Heart theme music and I am really not too crazy about this current opening

Love DAYS's 'Like sand though the hourglass so are the days of our lives.' part of the opening. Not to brag, but that line helped me get an A on a paper I wrote about soap operas. (I included the line in my introduction.)

Love PSNS's opening...love the song

Don't crazy about AMC's theme music but I do love when the pictures fly at the beginning

[Keith]

DAYS absolutely has the best, and it's never outdated, unlike openings that include characters. That's a major problem. if you're going to go to the trouble of including characters, you should able to update pretty instantly.

That said, I do like the ABC openings. I preferred the old ones, though. Especially for GH and One Life. "Faces of the Heart" had such a warm feeling to it. I guess the new opening is more appropriate the feeling it gives people, but still.

[KLN]

The opening to Days is simplistic, pure and timeless. The "sands through the hourglass" bit has become a part of well-known pop culture. It should never be changed, IMO. However, I did like the limited-time opening they had during the summer of 2004 for the Melaswen storyline. The song was the same, but they added trumpets and brass instruments to make the theme all the more sweeping and grand -- it was superb! I wish it would've been a permanent change.

[SpiritualJunkie]

Before GL changed theirs to that crappy 70th anniversay opening, I would have chosen them but now I think Days has the best one.

[Drew]

I would like it if they would update the Days opening. They don't need to include cast shots, but the latest and greatest technology had to offer 14 years ago is not standing up anymore. How about some decent clouds, sun, hourglass, etc. Replace the background at the end with something realisticly looking, replace the blue table the hourglass rests on with the ocean, or clouds, or whatever they were going for when they made they last made the thing. CGI has so much to offer now that would only add to the Days opening.

Of the current openings I like B&B's best. They are overcrowding it with the actor and character names, and should just drop the character names and have the actor names expand in the same fashion (the scrolling names are fugly). Everything else is perfect.

ATWT's new one is pretty good. The only flaw (other than where version B is) is the bad lighting on the actors. Most of them have a purple tinge to them because they're under lit.

AMC's used to be good, but is now suffering from too many edits. Each new version of the opening shows a drop in picture quality, and overall fuzziness that accompanies multi-generation copies of one video source. The shots also dont synch to the music anymore like they used to - probably for the same reason. OLTL and GH's suffer similarly.

GH's is just plain bad. The actors are featured too quickly, in no logical order, and in most cases the sequence is on the same level as Pokemon used to be in causing seizures.

I don't like GL's anniversary opening (and I wasn't fond of their last one either - the music was not themish). I like that they've brought back their old intro from the early years, very Days-esq. But the video of the hands is over the top, the logo looks like shite, and this "find your light" crap that they've introduced into the logo and promotion of the show is dumb. GL you are escapism TV - stop acting like you're Oprah.

[Drew]

That's one thing I dont like about this opening. The slow intro in the long version before we see Bob & Kim sucks, and should be replaced with something else but it shouldn't be with what they play with Bob & Kim either. The theme feels like we're missing something, or is poorly cropped together from a much longer piece. I find that more evident when they do the short version of the opening. And I wish they'd use what they use in the mid show bumper, there's some serious lower cord piano going on there that makes the theme alot more dramatic.

[Cat]

Don't all beat me with Dominic Messinger's electric keyboard, but I find Y&R's opening the most beautiful. The evocative, haunting music, the black on white shots of the actors in slo-mo, the names of the actors featured. I find it lovely.

AMC also has an amazing opening which fits in with what the show is all about, I think. The family photo album really pulls you into the show.

OLTL should be ashamed of their bland opening of messy nothingness. WTF is up with that? Even the music is forgettable.

Passions opening needs its actors in it, I think. I prefer its closing credits, with the shot of the Peyton Place-like New England harbor town. At least it gives us a sense of Harmony's locale.

I don't like GH's new opening -- I miss Faces of the Heart, with the individual actors and the absolutely class music with the opening bum-bum, bum-bum heatbeat.

Same with B&B. The original was better.

Best opening ever? Santa Barbara. And Days is so simple and classic.

[dragonflies]

All My Children's is the best hands down IMO. I love the photo album opening and closing, all the older shots of like Phoebe and whatnot.

AMC's opening is one of the few that still has a "shoutout" to it's past in it's opening.

GH's is AWFUL, OLTL's is meh

ATWT's is pretty good, and Y&R's could be better(if it was updated)

[xDaysAddict]

one of the very,very few good things that came with that story.

[alwaysAMC]

AMC

Y&R

DAYS

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B&B

OLTL

ATWT

GL

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PSNS

GH

AMC is just the overall package for me - except I still prefer the Falling Pictures opening from 90-95.

Y&R = classy

DAYS = classic

The middle pack is just 'eh' to me. I prefer all their older openings to the current so-so ones.

GH is just BAD. Way too flashy with the characters - and I hate the sexist male cast ending, which needs major updating anyway bc half the men in there are gone from the show anyway. I MUCH preferred GH's "Faces of the Heart" opening.

[Keith]

I, too, loved the big orchestra feel that came in 2004 to the DOOL theme. Why it didn't stay, I have no idea.

[All My Shadows]

AMC should go back to the 2002-2004 opening. It didn't feature as many older pictures as the current one does, but they could easily make a nice combination out of the two. They can start with the classic Erica, Phoebe, etc, shots, but instead of them being against a dark, autumn-like background, they can be against the golden satin-like background used in the 2002-2004 opening. And instead of having the pictures fly up in the sky, they camera can do a quick pan against them all on the golden background with a quick flash of golden light, leading to the headshots of the 2002-2004 opening.

ATWT's is just [!@#$%^&*]. Plain and simple. I like a lot of the concepts of it, but the music is horrible. It sounds like an underscore, not a theme song. It doesn't fit the show at all. The fact that only half of the cast is featured is disrespectful and just plain ridiculous. The overly dramatic looks on the actors' faces are too campy. The only thing I like is the the crossfading of the rural images and classic clips in the background.