07-06-2024, 02:53 AM
On reflection, the 2000 set really were a brilliant refresh of the look, and really deserved to anchor the channel's continuity for longer than the initial one-year-stint they were granted. 'Excalibur' and 'Wave Night' really are incredibly special and striking, and worthy of being any channel's flagship pres, but so were the other idents: 'Catalyst' and 'Predator' and the day variant of 'Wave'.
'Woodpecker' is incredible because it was done using stop-motion animation; for all this time I'd thought it was computer-generated. And whereas I think 'Kebab' was one of the weaker of the group, it gets massive plaudits for having three different variants. The genius of watching an evening of comedy and seeing the kebab get more cooked in real time... just incredibly inventive TV continuity. All good things come to an end, but I think there's every piece of evidence in place to argue that Lambie-Nairn's ident set was evolving appealingly into a new century, and that the latest batch of idents represented a new peak.
'Woodpecker' is incredible because it was done using stop-motion animation; for all this time I'd thought it was computer-generated. And whereas I think 'Kebab' was one of the weaker of the group, it gets massive plaudits for having three different variants. The genius of watching an evening of comedy and seeing the kebab get more cooked in real time... just incredibly inventive TV continuity. All good things come to an end, but I think there's every piece of evidence in place to argue that Lambie-Nairn's ident set was evolving appealingly into a new century, and that the latest batch of idents represented a new peak.
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