Does anyone miss credits at the end of TV shows?
They’re still there, but you have almost no chance whatsoever to read anything they say now. I know mostly no one tries to in the first place, and that the ability to look up what you’ve missed on the internet really makes it not matter to that many viewers, but still, they only shrink the credits and eliminate their background music because they want to play commercials instead, and I know that no one can possibly want to actually see more of those, so this new credits strategy feels kind of lame.
And now things end so abruptly, because they push the end of the show/movie to the absolute last second. This has two effects:
1) Sometimes they start the credits before the program even ends, which can spoil the ending.
2) There’s no buffer between the end of the program and the start of the next thing, like the commercial break or credits used to provide.
When there was, you had time for getting oriented (instead of being surprised by the next thing starting without much warning) or for letting the part of the program you just saw to properly sink in.
I could just feel like that matters because I’m not used to it, of course, and in all likelihood the next generation just won’t even notice.
Still, the credits segment had its own little charm, didn’t it? It had sentimental value, even if one can argue that it’s not as pragmatic as it could be.
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No, and I wish they would quit wasting the film at the end of movies.
Nobody except his mom give a god damn who the key grip was.
I know what you mean, but I meant other than from a purely pragmatic perspective.
They do come in handy. I just wish they showed the music info first since that is all I care about.
I usually had to look up the credits anyway, before they got shortened, since they always go by too quickly. I do think it’s silly to begin the next show while the credits are still running, in a tiny corner.
I miss them. I like to be able to know cast members’ names, especially someone on a rerun who looks familiar but I can’t quite recall the name. Nowadays, the credits either scroll too fast, wind up in birdseed type because the screen splits in two to promote an upcoming show, or just get cut. I understand the reasons for stations doing this, but I find it very annoying.
No; but I don’t miss TV shows, either. I watch an occasional sporting event, and even the commercials for TV shows annoy me.
I only miss them because their absence reminds me how much time now must be devoted to advertising, instead of telling the story. Not that long ago, TV shows used to have lengthy opening credits as well, and before that, it was quite common to have a little preview of the upcoming episode. No one can afford the time for any of that now – it all goes into advertising.
I don’t really miss seeing the regular credits but the noisy three-way circus they stuff into that time annoys me. The credits are scrolling away, unreadable, in a little side box while some voice-over blah-blahs about upcoming stuff and some other add is visually stuffed onto the screen. Crazy, man !
The only credits I can say I ever “enjoyed” watching was Angry Beavers because they would have funny little jokes
When we were little kids my 2 brothers & me would play the “name game” with end credits on movies, whoever saw the most which corresponded with their first name won, bonus points given if the surname matched too.
I sometimes play it now with my kids, yeah it’s silly, but there you go.
What I hate even more is the advertisments that now appear during the show. They are usually scrolled across the bottom of the screen, and often obscure important parts of the show.
No. Who needs credits when you have the Internet? My IMDB app comes in handy quite often, and I don’t have to wait through ten minutes of names to get the information I want.
Personally, I don’t need time to orient myself or soak things in between TV shows.
Yeah, I figured in most cases no one would need to do those two things.But caring about not being able to do them is still a possible occasional effect, until all those of us who remember the way credits were before are gone. Not a huge issue, but still there. It’s only really happened to me once, and I got over it in a matter of seconds.
Still, to me it doesn’t really matter how few out there something effects, because it’s still a legitimate feeling if you get miffed when these things happen to you.
It’s good to give the minority a chance to be heard, instead of being scared to not go with the crowd, so I’m alright with the possibility of having asked a question not too many will relate to.
Oh, and I think what I meant to say was more along the lines of that the network expects you to change mindset too fast between programs when I spoke of letting things sink in. If you’re watching something you’re really into, it sort of interferes with the feelings the thing inspires to so suddenly have it gone (or at least it can). With traditional credits, you can prepare for the end.
I can’t read shit when it’s moving. Never have been able to. Now it just whizzes by so fast it is plain to me they don’t expect me to really read it, so I’m off the hook, yay
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