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Damn good show!
Well done, GB! I was very impressed with the Olympics opening ceremony with its green idyllic land replaced by dark satanic mills (and matching dark satanic capitalists), Mr Bond and the Queen, Mr Bean and his Chariots of Fire dream, and that wonderful run down the Thames complete with Ratty, Mole, and Toad and a flying pig over Battersea Power Station, EastEnders (and probably lots of other references I missed).
The copper bowls for each team making up the Olympic cauldron was genius.
I have to say though, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
sallymn is right: far too many teams dress like flight attendants in boring blazers and ties or scarves, and what were the US team thinking with their little 50s air hostess hats? I do love seeing the smaller nations in their bright national dress but there wasn't much sartorial interest otherwise.
Anyway, well done, London!
Oh, and it's Jasmin's 4th birthday today which makes it much better than the opening day of the last summer Olympics on which our Tessa died. There was tuna for all three to their great pleasure.
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I thought the US berets were dreadful. Much too martial-looking. I was relieved to see the NZ team didn't wear their formal uniform for the march-in, as it would have been just one more set of air hostesses to add to the collection. The German pink/blue colour coding made me grumpy.
Did you spot the Czech team's wellies? Hilarious! I liked the Ukrainian women's '70s inspired smocks, although they were apparently designed and made in Russia, which did not go down well.
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I did notice the Czech wellies! So funny (and they must have been awfully hot and sweaty). Was it a comment on English weather?
The Ukraine uniform at least showed imagination, but uniforms being made overseas to people's resentment was a common theme which applied to us too (China, I think, like most of our clothes). Spain had theirs made in Russia which angered people so much they were supplied free--and the Spanish then said they were to expensive. :-)
And hey, good to see you! I've missed you!
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Some of the teams were dressed in very boring attire weren't they? Like you I love seeing the smaller nations who very often wear something bright and original. Thank you for not mentioning our awful Elvis outfits ;)
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Hmm, and 'flight attendants' was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the Australian Team; and Ansett Airlines flight attendants, at that.
I liked the Volleys, and, not that you can see it, but the lining of the blazers had all the names of previous Olympics and Australian Gold medalists.
There was so much to love in the opening ceremony however, it made up for the disappointment at seeing those uniforms.
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And it is the first Olympics ever that had women in every team
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I thought that the opening ceremony was very well done. I have to admit that Mr Bean was the highlight for me. It was also good to see Sir Tim Berners-Lee given a leading role. I missed the parade of the teams, as it was after my bedtime. The ceremony didn't begin till 9pm local time, because understandably Danny Boyle thought that it would be more impressive after dark, and it wasn't due to finish till 12:30am.
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Sorry you missed the bit with the torches, because that was very spectacular, but I'm sure it will be repeated.
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(I understand that American viewers didn't get to see her performance, as NBC cut away to an interview with someone or other.)
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And ha! For once our timezone was an advantage!
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Unfortunately here in the US everything was interrupted by ads every five minutes, and we also had to endure the clueless commentary of the NBC celebrity hosts who didn't seem to get it.
And happy birthday Jasmine, a happy event all around!
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Jasmin loved her tuna and all the extra cuddles (not that she doesn't get a lot anyway). I think she's still asleep wrapped up in our duvet since this afternoon. She does like her comfort. :-)
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And yes, the ceremony was really excellent, very clever and witty and touching too. Of course the Queen and her Bond were a brilliant surprise:-)
In the meantime, our team are not doing well...I do hope it will get better.
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It was a great surprise!
We're doing well in the rowing (we usually do) but so far no finals. As for swimming and other sports, we do well just to show up.
Were your team's gumboots made be Bata? :-)
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(and matching dark satanic capitalists),
Who were Isembard Kingdom Brunel according to part of our commentary.
little 50s air hostess hats
The commentator referred to them as berets, so I assumed they were being military.
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Ah, I thought air stewardesses, too.
The American berets made it more like a military uniform.
As for Team GB - Bring on the Chavs in white and gold Hoodies!
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