Damn good show!

[vilakins]

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, 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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[elmey.livejournal.com]

I had a great time watching too, I loved all the movie references and the music in the digital era salute! And the National Health Service, I mean it doesn't get better :)
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!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We had ads too, but not as many (and we usually record ahead on the TiVo so we can zap them). I'm sure I missed a lot of references even though we went back and watched the river tour again.

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. :-)