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I feel there is… a lack of uniformity in the intros and title cards of various expanded content, among the different movie and TV shows. Obviously the Saga films have a clear uniformity. Blue text “A long time ago…”, STAR WARS, the crawl, pan down… and from that moment forward you are immersed into the story.
But I noticed back when Rogue One came out. A long time ago blue text… then cut straight to the story, which was definitely effective… but then at the end of the prologue, we then cut to a title card with its own unique style… kind of threw me off.
Then Solo comes out, A long time ago blue text, but then it continues with blue text to do its own variation on the intro text/crawl… I thought that was effective too actually. Then it does the same thing as Rogue One, towards the end of the prologue we get a title card… although this one is 3d inside a shot in the movie… kind of weird…
Then, not to mention all the different shows, all handle their intros differently… some more consistent with the Saga films, some less consistent. Mando does the R1/Solo format, the unique logo at the end of each episode’s prologue, and then the individual episode in blue text, sort of similar to the “Long time ago”. Boba Fett follows Mando’s format, prologue first, make sense, practically same show. Ahsoka follows prologue format as well. Skeleton Crew follows the prologue-titlecard format. Acolyte follows this same format.
Andor starts off with its show logo, a little more 3d than Mando’s, then it jumps into the episode and stays fully immersed in it. Obiwan follows the same format as Andor. So these two stand out from the others.
To me, one thing I think should be consistent… Star Wars should start with “A long time ago…” blue text, every single time. That should be Star Wars call sign forever (personally Id rather have that than the 3d character intro)… but beyond that…
Is anyone else bothered by the inconsistency of the title cards or am I just crazy? I am wondering, if there could be a uniform template that editors might be able to implement to these expanded shows and movies that will honor the Saga films while getting across what they need to, without having all these deviating styles (unlike the saga films which are very uniform)
I feel, we should have some kind of uniform logo IMO. And also, I think there should be consistency as far as, does the “Prologue first then the title card at the end” work?(Mando, R1) Or do we just need to do the title card before the story starts? (Andor, TCW). Do we skip the title card entirely?
And I’ll be honest, I am thinking about this in the context of, I prefer movie cuts for these shows. So for me, watching the whole series as a movie series, I would rather see a uniform style and title card with matching font (Maybe just differing colors? idk), that honors the style of the Saga films.
