[kianworld]

There's a lot of great ones and I feel like it'd be impossible for me to choose a favorite... so I'd just say I think the Wave ones are really underrated cause of that great soundtrack. Same for Balloon. I'm also a little surprised some of the special idents didn't get reused, like the Cinema, Mars, Wet & Windy, and even the Simpsons idents, I like those and feel like they're abstract enough to be used outside of a themed night.

Looking back on the re-use from 2014 - 2018, how Network/Wales/Scotland did it was really... confusing. The offset boxed logo was ugly, the presentation surrounding it was aging / using the differently shaped 2 from 2007, and the idents they chose to bring back / not bring back were odd. Like you brought back Paint Pot but not Paint? (and then you only brought back Paint for CBBC stuff?) The new stuff like the tennis, snooker, and darts idents just didn't fit in too, they felt like something from the Personality era (maybe it's because of how obviously CGI they all were). They turned an impressive ident package into one where you kinda feel bad for the network, as if they're trying to relive their glory days only to just stumble around.

I'm surprised Northern Ireland were allowed to just completely diverge from the ident package and do their own thing, and I desperately wish the other networks did too because they nailed it. At some point they were just showing off, by bringing back random obscure idents like the Cut-out and Cinema or the old Christmas ones, or doing the cool negative effect with the logo on Wave Day.

Either way I'm glad we've left that era entirely with the curves. Imagine all the retro-fitting they'd have to do to bring back the 1991 idents again with the Chameleon look. Eeesh.