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Topic: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

I am a sucker for a good intro / opening to a show. Most shows I skip them because they are unimaginative or boring but with a few I can't help myself to watch them everytime.

My question, what are your favorite intros to TV shows?

Here are my top ten favorite intros:
01. Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 1)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-FOalYVCk

02. Attack on Titan (Season 2)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CID-sYQNCew

03. Peacemaker (Season 1)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrr3UNALww

04. Black Sails
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTcA4QLHw0

05. Game of Thrones (Season 8)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZE9gVF1QbA

06. Arcane (Season 1)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GuZK_KFV0

07. Vikings
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmyCRJkKeKs

08. Farscape (Season 4)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTEdsT1jv4

09. Banshee
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWEiNNGR3Y

10. Britannia
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpymW6HU3LA

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Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

+1 to Vikings, Banshee and Black Sails

A couple more:

The Unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGeFrTzRoE

Dead Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bNIC7nkEBY

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

Westworld also was good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRi3ULhyQq0

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

The original Dexter comes to mind.
Recently, the only one I never skip is Peacemaker.
I tend to skip most of them after the first episode, unless they change every ep like some do that I can't think of right now.

Barry just popped into my head too, nice and brief but sometimes brilliantly timed.

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The Expanse.  Great graphics that show the passage of time almost like Game Of Thrones, but all changed with each season including small details like the destruction of one of Mars' moons, to the ships taking off on the moon, and lots of other details specific to that season.

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I usually watch the first one for each season and skip the rest.  Wasted time for me.
I prefer the shows that just show the title for a second and then carry on.

DRM "manages access" in the same way that Prison "manages freedom".
http://xkcd.com/488/

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

I love a lot of the ones mentioned! The ones I keep singing right now is the opening song to Slow Horses and The Iris Affair. But, I get a little irritated after a while with shows with long intro songs. Get to the show!

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

The first season or two of "Outlander" (I'm a sucker for time travel progs) is a favourite but they tinkered with it later on and that's when I started to skip the intro.

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

TeaAndApathy wrote:

The Iris Affair

Yes, this also is memorable. A good intro in a way adds a vibe to a show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF97HwymoK

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

g371 wrote:

Dead Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bNIC7nkEBY

+1

Currently rewatching Dead Like Me smile

theaphid wrote:

The first season or two of "Outlander" (I'm a sucker for time travel progs) is a favourite but they tinkered with it later on and that's when I started to skip the intro.

+1

That song, absoltuely beautiful smile

Deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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Re: What are your favorite Intros / Openings ?

WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:

Currently rewatching Dead Like Me smile

imo one of the best shows ever and one of the few which I have watched more than once. In the past grass indeed was greener, btw, Dead Like Me by now is 23 years old

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