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cwathen
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>The thing about it was the end started with a load of shots over >the 'beach' which lasted ages and then on the last two seconds >a huge amount of credits whizzed by. Now why couldn't they be >run over the whole end seqence where they would be at a fast >yet readable speed.
I loved the shots of the beach at the end - although they did get a bit carried away with them as time went on (they started with about 4 shots over 20 seconds, at the end there are close to 20 and they go on for 1 and a half minutes!).
I thought it was brilliant that a modern (and American) production did this.
They served an important purpose - allowing you to hear more of the brilliant theme tune (it was a huge crime when it got removed from the opening titles).
The credits could (and did) still scroll at a readable rate (there were actually 3 scrolling speeds, easily readible, barely readible and unreadable) it's just that they hardly ever used it and generally went for the fastest one every time.
And as for the 'loads of credits' like I said the full credits were only dragged out about once a week on average. The rest of the time it was often just 'Created by, Executive Producer, Directed by, Written by, Executive Producers' and that was your lot.
(why Garry Tomlin's Executive producer credit was put in the roll instead of at the end along with Aaron Spelling's and E Duke Vincent's is beyond me - perhaps he fell out with the credits gut).
I loved the shots of the beach at the end - although they did get a bit carried away with them as time went on (they started with about 4 shots over 20 seconds, at the end there are close to 20 and they go on for 1 and a half minutes!).
I thought it was brilliant that a modern (and American) production did this.
They served an important purpose - allowing you to hear more of the brilliant theme tune (it was a huge crime when it got removed from the opening titles).
The credits could (and did) still scroll at a readable rate (there were actually 3 scrolling speeds, easily readible, barely readible and unreadable) it's just that they hardly ever used it and generally went for the fastest one every time.
And as for the 'loads of credits' like I said the full credits were only dragged out about once a week on average. The rest of the time it was often just 'Created by, Executive Producer, Directed by, Written by, Executive Producers' and that was your lot.
(why Garry Tomlin's Executive producer credit was put in the roll instead of at the end along with Aaron Spelling's and E Duke Vincent's is beyond me - perhaps he fell out with the credits gut).