Ok, it’s 6 hours later and I have some clarity over last night’s Opening Ceremony so I had some additional thoughts and addendum:
1. Have you ever felt like you had a hangover WHILE drunk? yeah, well apparently one (or all) of these damn headache drugs is anti-alcohol cuz I wanted to DIE last night. I was seriously about to just shoot myself in the head 15 minutes after that video.
2. I wasn’t lying about the logo and the mascot. The London Olympics committee have just been making oddball decision since the beginning.
3.There was no chance the Brits were going to compete with China so they had to do their own thing, but I just think they could have done their own thing better. For those who watched the Parade of Nations (Lust) at least 1/3 of the countries were former colonies of English empire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
4. The Opening Ceremony opted to focus on the transition of the UK from an Agrarian society to an Industrial society, but at that point it was either a staging failure or a failure of NBC that the viewer missed the beauty of the segment. SO MUCH WAS HAPPENING AT ONCE! It was just a hodgepodge of chaos and stuff. I imagine it looked spectacular from the stadium, but from my bedroom it looked like ass. It was like a Tyler Perry sitcom, it wasn’t meant for television.
5. I forgot to mention the part where Daniel Craig and the Queen of England “dropped” out of a Helicopter into the stadium. It was cute, but it was strangely and poorly done. It was daytime in the copter, then the corgis were were cartoonerized. Danny Boyle, Artistic Director, is smoking that Good Good. That Good Good is how you get a 40 foot Voldemort, 30 Mary Poppins and a girl in a flying hospital bed.
6. Oh, so that came right after a segment about their National Health System, which reminds me that Mrs. Obama was there looking fabulous and Mittens was there looking robotic.
(Now for a Political Break) On Tuesday Romney gave his Foreign Policy speech and I’m ashamed to admit I watched it live. He claimed that President Obama has done a poor job at foreign relations, that the President has a leaky White House, particularly during the Bin Laden raid and that the President has ignored his advisors. I’m going to ignore the fact that the world loves Mr. Obama and he repaired a good amount of diplomatic damage done by Dubya. So Romney goes to the UK on some love me “I’m Anglo-Saxon” (WHITE) stuff. He then immediately criticizes their Olympics, which you can do 6 months before, NOT 48 hours before the BIG Show. Britons were salty as fugg. Then RIGHT after his meeting at 10 Downing he comes out and basically spills that he met with the head of MI-6!
MI-6 was founded in 1909, but the government didn’t acknowledge it until 1994 and the head of the organization didn’t speak publicly until 2010. THIS is some true Illuminati sh*t! But keep up the good work Mitty Boy.
7. I forgot about Mr. Bean!
8. I guess some Brit invented the World Wide Web and that’s why we got the dance number with all the great pop music. Seriously, I was jammin’ and I know when Soul II Soul played every black person started dancing, quit lying. Then when the lame rapper, Drizzle something, came out we all sat very still.
9. I’m so so so so so so so so so so mad about the Parade of Nations . . . I’m going back to bed. If I start up again I’m seriously going to consider flying to London and going stabby on some NBC camera people.
10. Yes, I am the only person in the free world who loves Meredith, Matt and Bob . . . they will irk the living hell out of anyone and everyone else who tries to watch the Opening Ceremony. You were warned.
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the forging of the rings i thought was rather cool. along with the beginning where the children sang around the uk. and rowan atkinson (mr. bean) doing his own chariots of fire was hilarious! lol why did you hate the parade of nations?
You must have skipped the video. Usually they have long shots that pan the group of athletes so you get a nice view of what the country has to offer. This year there was none of that. Some countries you didn't even get a glimpse of anyone. It's like someone letting you look at a plate of food. I can't even get a sniff, let alone a taste?.
But Slaus is gonna let me fix it.
That whole "let's focus on the US athletes and ignore the three countries to come in after them" kinda irked me…
Yeah, same here. I had actually watched it live thru a BBC feed. No commercials, no cut aways to silly interviews and montages, and respect for the smaller nations and letting them get their shine.
Well Gosh Dangit, why didn't you let the rest of us know where to go!!! All of the darn commercials was what pissed me off the most! I mean, you couldn't let us go commercial free just for this??? I truly hope they don't get the 2016 coverage as well, but I truly hope by 2016 I can be in Rio watching it LIVE!!! NBC however has lost all of my respect for that shoddy mess!
my bad, I had stumbled upon a HuffPo article that had links to live stream,
I finally found a bootleg BBC stream that was working and didnt do any web surfing for fear of breaking the connection or being booted out of the stream.
Sowwy
i'm having issues with youtube, let alone sound, so i apologize if i missed that
i was looking forward to seeing tsukahara jr and kousuke kitajima. also, i wanted to know if the beast that was marleen veldhuis was swimming this year. i felt rushed along.
Thats cuz the american coverage was booty. I saw it live via a bootleg a BBC feed and they didnt do any commercials so you had ample time to sample the wares. That said, the organizers kept that ish uptempo with the music, not trying to be there `12 hours for the march of nations, lol.
The parade of nations…Mr. Bermuda, Mr. Yemen, Mr. France, Mr. Puerto Rico, Mr. Trinidad & Tobago and quite a few other nations had some foine azz men. America had Kobe, Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis' unibrow (because it's a totally separate entity from himself) and Michael Phelps lol.
did you see mr. china, s. korea and american samoa? mmm-MMM!
i'm mad at anthony davis' eyebrow, but that doesn't mean i didn't snort after i read it
Girl, my friend was all over anything in shirtless, and/or in a grass skirt…she was especially feeling mr.Fiji lol. That and the guy dressed like Amadeus, lol
OMG…. My jaw dropped when Mr. Samoa walked by! I started Googling flight prices and best vacation times, LOL
I didn't watch the US coverage, so I guess I saw something else….
I laughed my way through the Agrarian society to an Industrial society part of the ceremony.
It looked like a dance number from "The History of the World Part I" directed by Mel Brooks.
I wanted to mush my TV when Ryan Seacrest interviewed Micheal Phelps.
Independent Athletes of the Olympics=All the Way Live. I want them to win at least one gold medal.
I mentally tapped out after hearing Mauritania and Mauritius and thinking their names sound like hood versions of Mariah's twins.
The Independent Athletes entrance was the best, I think.
they were PUMPED weren't they?
Yeah, that white girl and the two men of color were just so happy to be there.
You couldnt help but get hyped for them
I thought they were going to start leap frogging over each other during the parade. THAT is Olympic Spirit.
After missing so many other nations due to *sic* commercials, seeing them made me happy again! I did love hearing about they Sudanese athlete who refused to run under his country's name do to all of the turmoil there at the moment.
Dude…I thought the bit with the smoke stacks and the iron foundries with the molten iron forming the Olympic rings and the river Thames was badazz. I didnt see the agrarian bit but I thought the Industrial age bit was magnificent. and I loved the 'music and technology' thru the ages bit, but thats cuz I knew all the damn songs. I cant lie…I teared up a bit when they played soul 2 soul….danny boyle is the fvcking man for that.
but I agree with the ryan seacrest interview, I was ready to curb stomp something after that.
and YES on the Independant Athletes…those mofos were so happy to be there.
There was too much to look at. At one point it looked like they were doing the coal shoveler's robot and I came back from the kitchen looking at a bunch of Abe Lincoln looking men dancing like they were in "Beat It". I enjoyed the rest, recognized most of the music, and learned a few things.
What about the part where they said they had the smell of sulfur and everything out there in the stadium lol
Some of their commentary was in poor taste.
The problem withe Industrial Age bit, for me, was the camera people weren't positioned for that type of display. It was visually lost on me and I was like a kid "what's that? Why is that there? Why are they doing that?". Eventually I gave up trying to follow.
That annoyed me too. Everyone can't be Micheal Bay.
I got emotional over the Olympic cauldron being lit…that ish was magnficient.
Also. where in the world do you buy your sports bras cuz damn…I have some heft as well, lol
Oh, and one last thing…shoot, I was just happy to see people of color involved.
There was not nan skit from last night where you didnt see ample people of color.
And by people of color I mean black, mixed, indian, asian etc. It was nice to see the brits
go out of their way to rep all members of brit society.,..then again, maybe they just arent
as rachet about this race thing as we are. Either way, I loved that every time I looked, there
was folks of color involved…even the lil children escorting the different nations during their
marches carrying them damn olympic leaves and whatnot *sniff*
i thoroughly ENJOYED the lighting of the cauldron. that was actually pretty neat. the fireworks display was rather grand, too
I was all "Yay Torch!" Til the torchbwas donebriskng at 3 feet. I thought you had to have it viewable outside the stadium. So I'm waiting for the floor to lift because it really is a gorgeous cauldron, but it didn't. It was like Olympic Premature Ejaculation.
you musta missed it cuz they raised the torches like 100 feet.
WHAT? No! NBC cut to a Seacrest interview with Phelps. Are you serious? Dammit!
damn..what coverage did you watch? cuz after the torches were lit, the commentator was wondering how it was going to be seen cuz it was so low…
cue them raising the torches, that formed like Voltron to form the cauldron, high into the night sky….
also, u musta been hella buzzed, cuz the seacrest interview was way before the lighting of the cauldron, and the raising of the cauldron
There were also things you may not have noticed like the Windrush segment and Doreen Lawrence carrying the Olympic flag, it's doubtful others would understand the significance of those things but, along with that ethnic mix which you noticed, they are all the end result of what Cher reduces to “Hey remember when we conquered your ancestors, B*tches?" but what we now call home. That's what London actually looks like, it's rare in the world, and, as a Londoner, I can't tell you how proud I am that they made sure that was shown. Thank you for noticing and mentioning it.
yeah, its dubious how all those people of color got to england…but still 1) britian was the first industrial nation to ban slavery and 2) it seems like all those ethnicities have settled into the fabric of the culture.
I dont know for sure, but it just seens like Englanders dont have nearly as much racial issues as america.
Class issues sure, but class is about money not skin color.
Bored out of my mind for 45 minutes. Then it was awesome!
I liked the part with Queen Elizabeth and Daniel Craig. The Rowan Atkinson bit had me cracking up.
To me most of the African countries were the best dressed.
Well… I liked Dizzee Rascal (I was already a fan). but that was pretty much it. That whole 300 people running in a circle simulating a subway completely lost me. And the love story projected on the screen while also happening live was way too much. I was expecting John Travolta and Olivia Newton John to come running out singing Summer Lovin'.
I was texting back and forth with my best friend during the ceremony, and eventually he stopped watching to season some meat to barbecue and I started watching Women's Fencing… or something like that. I guess I didn't have an open mind, but that thing was horrible.
Sorry…all I saw were boobs *kanye shrug*
DonkeyRock said my Boobs couldn't carry this video. Y'all know I was speaking words and stuff, right? The words were accompanied by the spastic hand movements. I tried to re-record a short version by my eyeball tried to murder me.
"I know when Soul II Soul played every black person started dancing, quit lying. Then when the lame rapper, Drizzle something, came out we all sat very still."
Yep, that about sums it up!
I was not feeling that opening ceremony at all. The thing with the queen was cute, I've never found Mr. Bean funny, and I fell asleep half way through the parade of nations.
yeah, I was jamming during soul 2 soul, but didnt know who in the world drizzy rascal was, lmao.
Im always amused by overseas rappers. They try, bless their lil hearts.
So CVM tv decided to break the Parade of Nations (somewhere between G and I) to do the lotto numbers. Yea. I think all of Jamaica did a simutaneous, "Weh di b*****c****T?!" at that moment. I understand that Supreme Ventures is the station's sponsor, but they couldn't have scrolled that shyt?! You bet your ass they were lucky Jamaica's turn wasn't right at the break, or else it would have been ON.
Sounds to me like you ought to be aiming your fire at NBC. The show I saw sounds very different to the one you did.
As someone who secret squirrel wishes the colonist had lost the world so I could have an accent I was FURIOUS! I was tweeting my anger to NBC during the ceremony because they didn't know what to film. So they opted for bland long shots over and over and over. When I sobered up and went to the Opening Ceremonies webpage I'm all WTF? This sounds good. Now I'm hearing BBC's feed was good, NBC cut out part of the ceremony, the Cauldron DIDN'T stop at 15 feet.
I'm beginning to lose my ride or die NBC spirit.
the more i read, the more i feel robbed. now i wish i scrolled to the bbc one on the cable box. i won't be able to find it all, but i need to check out bbc's website to see what all i missed.
BBC channel didnt air it, and bbc website was broadcasting only for UK viewers.
I found a bootleg link somehow, but it wasnt easy. My other friend watched thru canadian
tv but they had loads of commercials she said.
keep an eye on Huffpo for the hook up.
NBC coverage was booty. I found a live bootleg BBC feed and saw most of the ceremony there,
no commercials, showed all the countries. didnt have long to look at everyone because it was so fast, but you saw more of them than the nbc coverage.
no silly interviews or cut aways…just showed the damn ceremony.
NBC is hot buttery boolshyt I remembere the year they fvgged up the french open coverage(tennis)
nadal, the most dominant FO champ ever was being upset, and instead of having that match live…….they were showing a match that had already been played the day before!!!!!!
I was so glad when espn won the rights to broadcast the tennis majors, NBC svcks donkey balls.
Sounds like NBC's version was absolute shyt.
I don't understand why everyone thought they were going to see a duplicate of the 2008 Olympics anyway. There was no way Britain was going to be able to pull off something more spectacular, or even if they wanted to. I think Boyle did the smart thing and took the opening ceremonies in a different direction by going with their music history, the industrial revolution and children's literature. The salute to the NHS was a subtly snarky political move since Parliament is doing it's best to cut it off at the knees and introduce privatized healthcare, the fvckers.
What I saw was a beautiful salute to the UK's history(hellooooooooo, Kenneth Branagh as Brunel?!). Amusingly devoid of any hints to Britain's occupation of other countries……..but China kind of left out all of their centuries of oppression, so no surprise there!
i wasn't expecting beijing either, even though i did place it as the standard. but the uk has its own great history so i thought it was accurate from that aspect. but yeah nbc did us dirty. i want a do over.
Toody makes an excellent point; I started drinking at 7:17 on sweet tea vodka and lemonade and by 11:30 when I was summarizing and STILL drinking I may have been a leeeeeetle drunk. I haven't had alcohol since the cruise and I'm on half a dozen medications that say do not drink while taking … that would explain why I saw flies instead of Doves.
1) I'm highly sceptical about the IOC, and for good reason.
2) I think it's very disappointing that the modern Olympics – at least everything around it's organisation and planning – seems to have become a modern dystopian allegory.
3) NBC fugged up. The BBC presented it well. The show was actually – I think – surprisingly good. It was inclusive, vivid, and presented what seems like a series of undercurrents and subtexts pointing towards the history of Britain as a place where outsiders can make their own space. It was a strikingly rebellious ceremony, considering the restrictions usually put in place for the Olympics. Bravo to Danny Boyle, I say.
4) #NBCfail – http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/…
Sorry all late-late… I are the poor and have no television…
Anywhoo:
"Danny Boyle, Artistic Director, is smoking that Good Good. That Good Good is how you get a 40 foot Voldemort, 30 Mary Poppins and a girl in a flying hospital bed."
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