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Which works best?
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+ Pelador	Aug 8 2013, 11:12 PM Post #1
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Which works better on a television show? When you begin an episode, have something dramatic happen and then roll the opening credits. Or is it better to end the program with something equally as dramatic? Personally I much prefer the latter. It has the effect of making you intrigued as to what happens in the next episode without creating spoilers like a next time on X does. I really despise that trend. The problem with beginning a program with drama and then cutting to credits is that it breaks any kind of tension or immersion created by the initial scene. It doesn't actually add anything to the program at all except to serve as an interruption. Well that's my view anyway.
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+ Steve	Aug 9 2013, 12:33 AM Post #2
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	I think both are ok. The end like that is more interesting sure but if every episode ends with a cliffhanger the suspense get's kind of stale. Kind of "oh for f*** sake" after too many cliffhangers. No series has enough drama for that to not get annoying. Credits after a bit at the start is best when it's a "previously on" kind of thing, helps you mull over the details of the previous episode while the opening is playing, because if it's been a week most people are going to have forgot some things. I prefer it when there's not really an opening. Just on the screen for example "The Mentalist" comes up and then the episode plays and credits pop up on the screen. Then the standard credits at the end.
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+ Pelador	Aug 9 2013, 12:43 AM Post #3
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Doctor Who used to end on a cliffhanger all the time and it was great. I think if you can't remember what happened one week prior in a show that you enjoy then maybe you should see a doctor?
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+ Steve	Aug 9 2013, 01:14 AM Post #4
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Doctor who? HA HA not funny. Well it could be a complicated show/episode where you're not going to remember every detail from a week ago, especially if you have loads of other things to watch, work, social outings, mating rituals etc etc. Unless it's your absolute favourite show, you have a good memory or don't do any of the above it's probably not going to be totally fresh. Like say with LOST so much random crap happens in that which makes no sense, polar bears running around and whatnot. And all the flashforward then flashback then present time stuff in one episode. Needs to be something consistently good for cliffhangers to be good, few shows pull that off these days sadly.
	Definitely not a succubus, fear not


* -Zero-	Aug 9 2013, 07:00 AM Post #5
Black Knight Posts: 8,697 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,874 Joined: November 5, 2006 Favourite Anime Code Geass, Death Note, Dragonball/Z	The previously on thing doesn't always just show scenes fromt he previous episode, heck you could be in episode 22 and they show scenes from episode 2 or 5 simply because those episodes had something that is either going to be mentioned in the new episode or resolved. I personally love a show like this, Previously On(in case I forgot things from much earlier episodes on), then have a small scene that not only sets up the episode but pulls you into it then the opening credits, then end on a cliff hanger. That's my preference.
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