Olympic Opening Ceremony

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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Right. And you have to figure, if it was confusing to college-educated Americans, with our strong historical and linguistic ties to the UK, what were less educated people and those in Africa, China, and South America thinking? They could have done a better job of telling a story that was comprehensible to everyone.

I fast-forwarded through the dancing hospitalized children (what?) and the love story/decades dance party (I was expecting them to have the actual Eurythmics there, not just play a song I have on my iPod!). And whose idea was it to have the top-hatted industrialists doing those weird arm dances? We burst out laughing at my house.

I was unimpressed by most of the themes and the narrative. However, I thought the tech aspects were spectacular. Sets, pyro, forging the rings, building the cauldron out of 200 individual petals, all that was amazing. The original turf set was a beautiful representation of the English countryside with its meadows, hedgerows, etc.

The best opening ceremony moment, that I believe will never be topped, was Barcelona lighting the cauldron with the flaming arrow. That was AWESOME.

Yes to all of this!

The hospitalized children part was strange, and the texting thing was completely random and not necessary, in my opinion. I was also laughing/wondering "what were they thinking" at times.