AMC: Monday, 1/12/09

[SFK]

I haven't been "into" opening credits since AMC's Falling Pictures opening (1990-1995). Watching those credits was an event. Daily. They were just so good and innovative at the time, the best the show will ever have. The additions/subtractions brought excitement, and I absolutely hated the few examples of bad editing when a picture would fall a little too fast and awkwardly. I also used to think that Mona, Myrtle, and Palmer deserved frames, but whatever.

Now, I look forward to seeing the brand spanking new openings, but once they're here, I don't really care about the additions/subtractions. I do get a little miffed about bad billing. I hated that Rex came after Dorian and before Viki in OLTL's last opening, that was stupid and practically insulting. Thankfully, they have fixed this. In the Peabo opening, Dorian eventually got the Alexis Carrington final frame while Viki was usually the second or third after Asa (who was always first, I think Rauch lived vicariously through him) and sometimes Clint.

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I find this Frankie, "I have to see what the world can see" stuff very awkward and stupid. Dude, if you'd man up and knock those boots more often, you WOULD be seeing what the world sees, you'd be in the driver's seat. I understand his curiosity, but take your laptop into the bedroom and look at that stuff on your own time when Randi's out of the apartment. See it, and be done with it. Move on. You have an ex-porn star (who's IN LOVE WITH YOU) sleeping in your g.d. bed. Stop being a little bitch and realize that you have what cybersexers can only dream of.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

I geek out about the openings too. I think they need to update everyone's shots in the AMC opening though.

Kendall's is bad

Tad and Annie's need updating

And, they need re-arranging. BAD

I think it should go like this.

Erica, Kendall, Zach, Ryan, Annie, Aiden, Tad, Krystal, David, Amanda, JR, Adam, Colby, Petey *if they put DK on contract* Palmer, Joe, Jackson, Angie, Jesse, Jake, Taylor, Frankie, Randi, Bianca, and back to Erica.

[SteveFrame]

Why put Bianca in there though since she is only staying a short time. If you put her in you need to put Reese who is more important of a character than some.

And I hate where you put Zach & Kendall and Ryan & Annie & Aiden. I think they need to be further down and not give them the importance of that far up in the opening. The whole focus on them is what has ruined AMC the last few years and general fans of the show need to see that they are no longer the be all and end all of the show and it might lure more people back.

[alexisfan07]

Good ordering, but make sure to leave room for Reese and Brot! No ordering is perfect though and ever completely makes sense. I think some of the placement right now emphasizes the main connections.

They need more connections for Jackson, poor guy is gonna be on less than he already is soon... Thought it may give him a chance to shine in his acting.

[R Sinclair]

If we want to get anal about opening sequences, I just think it should be family first.

Since Lucci is the DIVA of the show, it should be something like:

Kane Women & Jackson since he's a Montgomery and Bianca's technically half-Montgomery

Martins

Chandlers

Hubbards

Cortlandts

and then all of the other "periphery" characters that have no true ties presently on cavas:

In no particular order...

Zach

Krystal

Annie

David

Ryan

Randi

Amanda

so on and so forth.

That way, unless Jesse and Angie get divorced, which I doubt will ever happen as long as D&D are playing the roles, you don't have to worry about switching actors/characters according to their relationships at the time. I mean, Ryan after Erica and before Kendall is just absolutely ridiculous. Especially since he finds the true love of his life every other year. Gillian -- no wait, Kendall... no wait... Greenlee... wait a minute... Annie... hold on a second... Greenlee... no wait... the next Stepford Wife. Not only that but, under Pratt, AMC has inched its way into becoming more of a community/ensemble show. So, it should NOT be an opening that dictates the way McTavish and B&E were telling stories.

That's the way the 1990-95 Falling Pictures pretty much went. You saw characters who were family tossed onto the table (Martins, Fryes, Cortlandts, etc.) and then the other characters who had no family fell onto the table. And if a non-core family member was connected to another non-core family member, then fine. Put them together.

Honestly, though? If ABCD wants to save money, since they're already doing on-screen writing, producing and directing credits, they should simply do the same with the cast members of that day's episode during the teaser...

Starring in Alphabetical Order

TAMARA BRAUN

BETH EHLERS

RICKY PAULL GOLDIN

THORSTEN KAYE

DANIEL KENNEDY

SUSAN LUCCI

EDEN RIEGEL

ETC.

And then after a quick 10-15 second opening bumper with the photo album showing all the pictures before it comes to a close, go on to the writing, producing, directing credits.

I mean, that's the way a lot of ABC primetime shows do it. But again, that's just my own personal opinion on how to package the show. After the first two episodes of the new "main title sequence" people start b!tching about wanting a new one again.