“It’s so disorganized and chopped up that the viewer can’t get interested in it.”
You said it. We watched part of the opening ceremonies, which were so awful it was unbelievable. The NHS & Children’s Lit - as Basil Fawlty asked “Is that what made Britain great?”
Then last night, we tuned in for a bit. We see 2 male gymnasts do 2 routines, maybe it was 3, that was a bit confusing. Then, they go to Costas & Viera and they’re talking about.....the opening cermonies!
I went outside to have a cigarette, hubby came out a few minutes later and I said “are they still nattering on about that cr*p?” He said “They went to Ryan Seacrest, I don’t even know what they’re doing.”
This was prime time, 10 o’clock on Saturday.
And even the people covering the events, I don’t know what the heck they are doing. The guys covering the gymnasts kept talking about stuff that had happened in the past, but not explaining WHAT had happened.
About one competitor they said “After his big disappointment at the World Championship, it was amazing he came back to win gold on pommel horse” He didn’t say what was the disappointment.
They were talking about the scores and one said “They score different events differently, that’s why we are using the red-yellow-green color coding on your screen”.
That was it, nothing further about how the events are scored or how that relates to the color coding.
So far I’ve watched about an hour and a half, I guess, I’ve seen 3 fellows compete, been completely confused by the people who are supposed to be explaining the events to me, and the rest of the time had my intelligence insulted by stupid, left-wing, propaganda, fart jokes from Mr. Bean and the silly idea that the elderly Queen parachuted out of a helicopter.
So yeah, so far it’s an epic fail.
I hope it improves, I actually rather like the summer olympics, but it’s very disappointing so far.
While I’d wish NBC luck...I suspect that they are thirty percent off viewership compared to the past Olympics. I don’t think the location matters...or the great personal interest stories...it’s just the way that NBC is covering things. People have gotten smarter over the past decade and see through failed media events.