{"id":1542,"date":"2008-09-17T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2008-09-17T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:56:12","slug":"tv_title_sequences_battlestar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/tv_title_sequences_battlestar\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Title Sequences: Battlestar Galactica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of <a title=\"Thirty Yahrens Aboard That Ragtag Fugitive Fleet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2008\/09\/thirty_yahrens_aboard_that_ragtag_f\/\">the occasion<\/a>, how could I <i>not<\/i> post this particular title sequence?<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHD1uPVkyk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor you trivia hounds out there, this is not the title sequence from the premiere movie that aired thirty years ago tonight. &#8220;Saga of a Star World&#8221; had more cinematic titles, without the &#8220;mugshot&#8221; visuals of the cast, simply words receding into the distance, something like the titles for <i>Superman: The Movie<\/i>, which I believe had debuted earlier that summer.<\/p>\n<p>These titles came with the show&#8217;s first regular episode; the sequence was later shortened somewhat, and the opening voiceover by Patrick Macnee was dropped. A pity&#8230; I always liked that voiceover. Yeah, I suppose the &#8220;life here began out there&#8221; angle sounds silly now, but back in the day this stuff raised the hair on our arms, kids&#8230; because we had these things called <i>imaginations<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the occasion, how could I not post this particular title sequence? For you trivia hounds out there, this is not the title sequence from the premiere movie that aired thirty years ago tonight. &#8220;Saga of a Star World&#8221; had more cinematic titles, without the &#8220;mugshot&#8221; visuals of the cast, simply words receding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-title-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}