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When I first started watching Y&R in 99 all everyone DID was complain about this opening! I loved it personally! But look at where we are now, I bet some of them WISH they had this to complain about.

Speaking of my introduction to The Young and The Restless, this is the very scene that made me fall in love with the show.

I was so curious as to why she was terrorizing this young girl. Mac didn't stand there and take it either, I loved how venomous Jill was and how believably incredulous Mac was ("Why are you talking like this? We're only in high school").

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I feel like I'm being contrarian, but as someone who hasn't liked any of the themes of the last twenty years, it doesn't bother me that much. I like the idea of going from B&W to color (even if it's a bit cliche), and I like the theme arrangement. My main problem with it is it just looks so damn cheap - as others have said, it looks like a fan edited opening from 15 years ago.

Ditch the skyline, take off the names, and I think it would improve a tad.

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Yeah, I was thinking that too but trying to be nice about it or whatever. It's not bad per se, but you can tell it looks basic. Well, at least the new intro doesn't have hands all over the place that made you feel you stepped into a Brethren church.

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@Darn and I were just talking about this but I personally really like the porn opening. The horns, the pounding beat, etc. were very majestic and fitting with Y&R's stature at that point IMO. I also liked the FX. I didn't get B&B from it but it was definitely sultry.

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The idea works for me, but the execution, with the skeevy sax and the red sheet flapping in the breeze, just came off to me as tacky and as a show trying to be what it wasn't...a good fit for where Y&R was going by that point, I suppose. Visually, it feels very early '90s Loving or OLTL, just with added horniness...if one can get horny on actors doing mannequin poses, anyway.

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The porn theme was fine when it first appeared.  But after a few years, when it became evident that it was too expensive to update, it became comical that dead people (Ryan and Malcolm) were still spinning around and greeting us warmly.   

(Eventually they caught on they could delete a dead character & drop in a living one who'd already been photographed, but for months -- or years -- the dead ones were still spinning around.)  

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That was often fairly a problem with the 88-99 opening too. We still had Phillips face into early 1990 when he died in May 89, and Cassandra spinning around lasted an additional 6 months until the updated fall 1991 intro. Then We still had Rex In the opening well into 95 until they updated that one.

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Whomever it is, it's a modern day version of Another World's mid-80's silhouette of two lovers' profiles coming in together for a kiss.  

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I hope this is some weird temporary 50th Anniversary intro and they'll go back to normal in the next week or so. 

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It works better this way, without the stock images.

This whole discussion has reminded me that I generally prefer the old school openings that didn't have any actors...maybe aside from Y&R's '80s/'90s run and OLTL with Peabo Bryson.

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