AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Season 22 Opening

[jonasp28]

Whats the song playing in the backround? I love that song!

[marcostar57]

Great video montage but the music is plain awful ..wish they' had kept the previous theme.

[ottergoose]

I dig this version, but see where the dissenting opinions are coming from.

[XTruth]

I am not an American, Chinese, Egyptian, Mexican, nor Israeli. I am human that lives on a land once reigned by the great beasts. This land that is your land and my land will stand still for many eons to come. This land belongs to not us but mother Earth itself.

[RImusclebear]

don't like it but as usual PBS captures it perfectly. You guys should donate money to this wondeful org!

[BSNFabricating]

I hate to say this, but I had to "dislike" this one... Thank you PBS for returning to a more traditional opening theme this year. Like so many others have said, this one is too contemporary...it ties you to the '60's. "Time" is not timeless...

[gemini6179]

I was watching the American Experience episode, Dinosaur Wars and it looks as though they heard us. They brought back the original intro, in a slightly remix version.

[debater88]

C'mon, WGBH. PBS already gets enough charges of being part of the biased "liberal media establishment." Now you've gone and created an intro full of clips of current hot-button issues, from Obama himself to Prop 8 marchers? Even the theme music, which dates from the cultural upheaval of the '60s and '70s, will alienate people.

The old theme united people of all stripes and backgrounds in a common pride in America. This one divides. Futile though the request may be, I say bring the old one back.

[EasyEs]

I know what went on.  It involves some baby boomer, narcissism and bad taste. I don't watch the show anymore and I grew up on it in the 1990s and 2000s. As a Canadian it helped me appreciate Americas greatness. Now all I think of is some stuffy baby boomer lawyer in a sail boat patting himself on the back for the civil rights movement which he was barely a part of.

[pw242]

Agreed. Bring back the old opening, PBS. The only thing I like about this one is the shot of the Statue of Liberty at the end, but other than that, it sucks. Just feels too forced and amateurish to me.

[temps45]

i agree with compvid101, i know the program might be trying to keep relevant and as a die hard fan they prolly expect me to watch no matter what, but this new theme sucks. the fast paced editing to match the percussion hits is cheap, lazy, incredibly trite. i hope the change in opening for a more "hip" demographic (i'm 23 myself) doesn't impact the content of the series. the older themes were truly pretty cool.

[sensei48]

An unmitigated disaster, the very personification of the line "WHAT were they thinking?" You've bartered a carefully, classically thought-out and perfectly integrated theme music/photo-video montage of the original opening/closing for a mess of recentist pottage. Why? The Chambers song wasn't worth a damn even 40 years ago, and the quickcut montage of mostly recent images is distracting and ineffective. It's alienating to the very viewers who have watched faithfully for 20 years.

[imcool88822]

oh its, "time has come today - The Chamberland brothers"

[imcool88822]

What Song is that????????

[WNEDTV]

Cool, contemporary feel. Thanks for uploading. You folks make the best programs out there!

[CompVid101]

Well, "cool and contemporary" is not what PBS and American Experience are about. That's cable, History Channel (90% non-historical garbage), and the other broadcast junk for the lame-minded, short attention bunch. The older AE themes depict and sobriety and reflectiveness that the series has always had and that the truly awful new teme does not.

[marcostar57]

@CompVid101 I agree 100%!

[EasyEs]

@WNEDTV wow.........