Look, all I'm saying is that a show that can afford to pay its star judge $36 million a year and consistently obliterates all other television programs in Nielsen ratings can probably afford a better opener.
You know those hokey commercials for computer and video game-design schools with the clunky Avatars and 1993-reminiscent 3D animation? That's akin to the work some folks at Fox decided to air as the intro to their midweek juggernaut.
I appreciate that American Idol chose to do something different from other reality show openers, which feature cheesy video clips or photos of each contestants with his or her name emblazoned across the screen. (Think "Real World," "Making the Band," "America's Next Top Model," etc.) But the incumbent intro is so faceless. It's all big cheese credits and little recognition of the talent that appears on-stage and on-screen. Yeah, we get to see weird, pixelated flahbacks of past (ahem, noteworthy) winners but, again, it doesn't have much to do with the people we're about to watch for the next hour or two.
Simply put, the American Idol intro is hard to relate to, it doesn't succeed in giving us that "sold-out mega concert" feel and, in the words of its own Simon Cowell, the aesthetics are completely forgettable.
Note: I'm not going to tackle the theme song. While I'm not its biggest fan, either, those twangy, synthetic notes are so synonymous with the show that it's probably one of the few things -- including the logo, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Ryan Seacrest -- that remain untouchable at this point.
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