TGI – Episode 721 “Angela’s Ashes"
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
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All right, so this time, when I sat down to watch the show, for whatever reason, I kind of got obsessed with our opening credits. And I was like, yeah, I was like, you know, these are really good opening credits. And I was like, why are they so good? I was like, because they're doing so much work for the show as far as establishing the friendships. Also, it's shot on film. So it looks more real. It looks like, it looks like back behind the scenes footage almost. Yes. And it has this, this like archival quality, like it's older and it's like, so it already positions the show and the storyline as like, Something that you should already know about.
You know what I mean?
Like you're part of this group of friends and you know who's dating who because they establish like the kisses and the grabbing and the laughing. Anyway, so then I was like starting to go down the rabbit hole of like there must have been some great articles and stuff written about the power of opening credits because opening credits have gotten so important, right? I know. And then I came across this idea that I had never heard about. It's a French theorist named Gerard Jeannette. I can't believe. No, but I cannot believe I made it. This is like, this guy is like so up my alley. I made it all the way through, you know, film theory, literary theory in college, studying it all the time.
How do the opening credits impact viewer perception?
I never read this guy. You seriously made it all the way to almost 50 without knowing Gerard Jeanette.
It's crazy. Amazing.
But here's the cool thing. He came up, his concept was paratexts. How, when there is a text, like when there is a book.
Yeah.
we don't come to it completely naked. Like you never are reading a book, just picking up in the text is there. You're always, the cover is a thing. The title is obviously a thing. If there's blurbs and reviews, the back, the author's photograph. And he said that there's, those things are, almost as important he called them the vestibules like when you walk in so that by the time you get to a book right and I was like oh my god this makes so much sense to me because I always I've always thought about the way like even like we approach classic literature right like when we're by the time you're reading Moby Dick You've already had to be told 50 times just by the cover of the book, it's the most important deep novel you're ever going to read, which I think destroys it for most people.
Because by the time you get to the book, it's like, Jesus, it's like eating vegetables, right? It's so much work. You don't realize it's actually just an adventure story about whales. Like, you know, anyway. Somebody, I looked it up and this guy wrote a book. Let me look his name. I'm so excited to read it. It's Jonathan Gray. It's called Show Sold Separately, Promo Spoilers and Other Media Paratexts. And his whole argument is that nowadays in our, and this is a 2010, he wrote it. So it's even worse now, but that the paratexts defining the text almost more than the text itself that the the trailers the interviews and like i think that there's an argument to be made that at this point they're almost eclipsing the actual text like you kind of feel like you've seen certain movies without ever even having to see them right because you just like already know i swear this is the perfect argument for the fact that people do no no longer read the article they only read the headline of
Yes, totally. And that's it. You read the headline of the article. And now, well, that's all I needed to know. It says this, this and this. Or even like how the way that Yahoo and like all these other news aggregators just like reference other articles. They're just like, it was written over here that this happened. And you don't actually read the thing. You just read the article about how there was an article that said the thing. And it's like an entire generation of people that are literally judging the book by its cover.
Right.
Exactly. But I do think that there's an art form to the opening credits.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–1:43
2
How do the opening credits impact viewer perception?
1:43–5:54
3
What insights does Gerard Genette provide about texts?
5:54–12:22
4
How do opening credits set the tone for a show?
12:22–54:37
5
What is Corey feeling about Angela's departure?
54:37–55:13
6
How does Sean's perspective on Angela's decision shift?
55:13–55:50
7
What does Sean realize about his relationship with Angela?
55:50–56:25
8
How does Angela express her feelings before leaving?
56:25–1:44:27