Lee Meriwether appeared in a few episodes over the summer for Jake and Amanda's "wedding." In the early 00s (and presumably the 90s and 80s), they'd list pretty much all contract and recurring cast members from the whole year. I'm guessing since Shannon was contract most of the year, that's why she was with the contract people here. But then again, I missed the whole cast part.

But yeah, they need to do something before the opening. Just starting on Erica like that is too abrupt and blah. I like the soft chord at the beginning of the theme, so they could start that on the teaser and do a slow fade into the opening.

But yeah, they need to do something before the opening. Just starting on Erica like that is too abrupt and blah. I like the soft chord at the beginning of the theme, so they could start that on the teaser and do a slow fade into the opening.

They need to re-think the beginning of the opening all together. The Erica shot just looks like another scene of the show.

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If they wanna go abrupt, I'd have the last frame of the teaser scene in a non-cheesy graphic way rapidly flip from the lower right corner like the first page of the scrapbook followed by several other rapidly flipped pages (you now when you hold a book and frrrrip through the pages with your thumb?) with various cast pics of the past and present. The "dunh-dunh-dunh" would play under that then LAND on the first shot of Erica of the current opening and proceed from there.

If they wanna go abrupt, I'd have the last frame of the teaser scene in a non-cheesy graphic way rapidly flip from the lower right corner like the first page of the scrapbook followed by several other rapidly flipped pages (you now when you hold a book and frrrrip through the pages with your thumb?) with various cast pics of the past and present. The "dunh-dunh-dunh" would play under that then LAND on the first shot of Erica of the current opening and proceed from there.

I like it. They could even incorporate someone's finger like the very first opening with the hand.

Thanks. Agnes'!

When people were talking about bringing the simple title card back, I thought it would be... *lovely* if maybe twice a week they had a :15 opening of various clips with the handwritten poem superimposed, Agnes reading it, closing on a shot of her in a big leather chair by the fire smiling warmly, "You are All My Children", chords/*chime*/title card. That would be nice at least for the week of anniversary shows. Kind of like GL's anniversary opening, but not played ad nauseum.

The new opening is terrible! If you're gonna use shots from the show at least try to find ones where the actors aren't talking. And they need to work on the pacing so it fits better with the theme song.

Lindsay Hartley this ain't Passions and you ain't Susan Lucci, tone it down a notch.

CBL has extremely wide hips

Yes she does!

LH certainly does have a coke-ish way about her, but it hasn't quite gotten on my nerves yet. It will if I begin to sense that it's more affected than free. She's new to me, so right now I'm kind of buying it as the "way she plays her instrument" or what have you.

CBL looks like she's going to open her mouth and sound like Penelope Cruz.

Am I the only one who hates Greenlee's shot in the opening. I HATE that hairstyle on her and I wish they had used one with her hair straight

Colby seems to be on for an eternity too...

She is.

The new opening is terrible! If you're gonna use shots from the show at least try to find ones where the actors aren't talking. And they need to work on the pacing so it fits better with the theme song.

Lindsay Hartley this ain't Passions and you ain't Susan Lucci, tone it down a notch.

Yes she does!

+1

They should have named her character "Theresa" because that who I see whenever "Cara" is on screen. A Theresa who's addicted to Red Bull. I expect it will be Fate that she should be with Jake.

Christmas credits!! Too bad I didn't notice until after the cast already rolled. Hey, at least they weren't confined to half the screen and set in a highly calligraphic font.

But wait...this wasn't the Christmas episode, was it? Oh hell...

Nope, they're still a day off though I don't know why they didn't just reedit a few episodes to catch up in the last 6 weeks.

Sitting here watching, and I'm disappointed....I really like the opening, but I hate how abruptly it comes on. With the way it starts now it would be perfect if a vamp type melody lead into it again.

Grinchlee is all kinds of bitchy in this episode and I'm loving it...don't really agree with her, but I love how she's been acting lately!!

Agree on both counts. They should've brought back the "dum, dum, dum" lead in.

I want to believe that Greenlee is about to revert to her true self and that it will lead Ryan to finally leave her for good, but I just don't see that happening with Frons & Carruthers still around. What I'm most dreading is Greenlee getting all up in Madison's face, Ryan butting into Madison's life and Kendall making excuses for them while poor Madison has to deal with all 3 of those idiots!

Yeah, the credits were nice. I noticed Kane was still listed as contracted. How weird when she's absent from the opening.

To the best of my knowledge she *is* still on contract. I don't know WTF is going on with her and AMC but I have a pretty good idea how this is going to end and if I'm right then I'll have no problem throwing them on the trash heap with their inbred, redneck cousin, OLTL.

CBL has extremely wide hips

Good. ER had/has a phenomenal rack and a pretty nice badonkadonk to go with it so CBL should play up her curves too. Also, Binks has an eating disorder. For that reason, IMO, it's important that she not resemble a famine victim like Erica, Kendall or Greenlee. The character needs to be a woman who is comfortable in her own skin.

What I'm most dreading is Greenlee getting all up in Madison's face, Ryan butting into Madison's life and Kendall making excuses for them while poor Madison has to deal with all 3 of those idiots!

It's the 2011 Preview.

Am I the only one who hates Greenlee's shot in the opening. I HATE that hairstyle on her and I wish they had used one with her hair straight

I like Budig's hair like that but I do not like the shot. She is talking to Ryan, which is first of all a fail, and her facial expression just isn't flattering in my opinion. They had better looks to choose from for her in 2010.

Yeah, I've said the same thing before, there are very simple, inexpensive tweaks these shows could do to enhance the viewing experience. The vamp just as much as the falling pictures became an iconic part of the AMC hour, it was a shot of adrenalinen for the viewer ("Uh-oh, here we go y'all..."). They've been doing the abrupt start for the opening for quite a while now and it's not my favorite stylistic choice. Abrupt only works for something like the blaring sax of the classic B&B opening.

I totally agree!

I used to LIVE for the "dun-dun-dun". LOL!

Bring it back!

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