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51. A Stranger Things (season 1) - Player_0
https://youtu.be/-RcPZdihrp4

Unique: 6.25
Story: 0.75
Music: 7.75
Animation: 5
Personal: 5
Average: 4.95

My first thought was this is just letters coming together over a black background to form the title of the show. Surely I must be missing something, judging from the 225,000 thumbs up on the video. But after a few watches, it started to click for me, even if I still cant shake the feeling the intro is incomplete.

This intro is entirely about setting the atmosphere for the show. It doesnt even bother to waste your time with the pretense of a story or showing a single character. And in a way, thats kind of refreshing given all the intros that pretend to tell a story, while completely failing to do so. And in its own very limited way, there is some hint of a story to this intro, as the music and slow crawl of the letters set the mood. So by the time you finish watching this sequence, you go into the show feeling like you have some idea what to expect, even if you know nothing about the show.

Of course, the music is doing most of the work here. And I really like the song, which has a nostalgic 80s quality to it. But its not just the music. Theres also a cool visual effect starting with a close-up where its not initially clear what youre looking at, and then the letters gradually come into view. Its hardly groundbreaking animation, but it looks really good and fluid, enough for an average score in that factor.

And thats more than I expected to be able to say about some letters.