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Does anyone miss credits at the end of TV shows?

Asked by guywithanaccountnow (313points) May 22nd, 2013

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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