Themed Logo

[duncan]

I never noticed at first, but on re-watching I picked up on the fact that Dinosaurs on a Spaceship had a different Doctor Who logo in the opening titles compared to Asylum of the Daleks. Now, it turns out that for at least the first 5 episodes of this series, we will get a different logo for each episode.

Asylum of the Daleks



Dinosaurs on a Spaceship



A Town Called Mercy



Do you think this is quite a good idea? Or, do you think that for consistency, the logo should remain the same each week?

[Rob McCow]

They do seem to be carving out a separate identity for each story. It goes with the 'stand-alone' idea that we've been promised for this year, rather than having the ongoing mysteries.

I suppose it's a bit of extra excitement every week - what new logo will we have now? But it's an insane idea really!

[J.R. Southall]

The opening titles are tweaked for colour too, I believe.

[Jon Masters]

It looks cr@p - something a 10 year old might do on the front of their school books

[Larry]

It looks cr@p - something a 10 year old might do on the front of their school books

have to agree - the opening credits this series are for me the worst ever.

[Dave Tudor]

Will the 'Angels Take Manhattan' title only disappear off the screen if you blink?

[Rob McCow]

The colour of this week's titles was definitely gween. An ichy gween pallor over the screen.

[J.R. Southall]

To be honest, these might work a lot better if the title was a lot larger in the frame. But as it is, you really need a 60" television set to be able to appreciate them. Watching on a PC, I barely even noticed there was anything different about the logo until somebody pointed it out...

[Andrew Curnow]

I like it...

[duncan]

I've got 42" TV and even I didn't notice the difference untill my second watch.

I don't like the themed logo. The opening titles are very poor this series and look like they were knocked up by a first week apprentice via movie maker.

[Rob McCow]

That's all very well, but what would Mr.T think?

All you suckahs dissing the THEMED logo, this is giving someone a JOB at a time of bad RECESSION! Stay the HELL away from MY bins!

[Paul Monk]

I like it too!

[Si Hunt]

As usual they hyped this up to the extent that what would have been a nice surprise actually come over as us losing something. This is how Radio Times sold it to us:

Doctor Who premiere - new title sequences, Matt Smith on Twitter and a Big Surprise!

Steven Moffat reveals there'll be new opening credits for each episode but asks the audience not to leak the strange occurrence in Asylum of the Daleks

New title sequences? New credits? Sounds amazing. To then find they'd simply coloured the logo in with a different background each week was a bit underwealming.

If they'd just said nothing, it would have been a nice little quirk.

Si.

[Nyder]

"Every Dalek ever" was also a strapline that should have been underplayed - and then some. Actually it should have been buried.