And now for something completely different.........
About 2 hours into it right now and it sucks.
Somewhat unlike the opening, the closing abounded in blasphemy. An effete, vain, sick society in its death throes?
I only watched the “Wish you were here” cover, I really enjoyed it.
what the hell kind of ending was that NBC??? “we’ll be back in an hour with The Who...now here’s a full episode of Animal Hospital”...
they’re effing us, right???
btw- must say its insulting they (London) never did anything for the mighty Led Zeppelin, especially when you consider they sent Jimmy Page to the Bejing closing ceremonies to perform Whole Lotta Love...
The sun has finally set on the British Empire, I witnessed it tonight
Somehow there is a pathetic quality to all of this. England is circling the drain and this seems to be it’s grand finale and the really weird thing is the Brits seem to be ok with it. Sad.
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night.........
Both opening and closing...just bizarre.
How can anyone ever take the UK seriously after that! A great Nation is now a big joke. Keep dancing to the end.
Was it really?
I could not force myself past the first ten minutes.
I saw part of it in a reataurant with the sound off. Worst dancing I have ever seen. And the whole thing was simply wierd.
I watched a few minutes of some dancers-musicians banging garbage cans and I turned it off.
After watching our American team surpass all others in the medal count, I was thinking of how Obama might address the athletes. Based on some things he’s said in the past, here’s what I came up with:
Obama’s Address to the American Olympic Athletes
There are a lot of strong, successful American Olympians who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’re a great athlete, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I dedicated my life to this sport. There are a lot of people who dedicated their lives to something. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great coach somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to win that gold medal. Somebody invested in running tracks and gymnasiums. If you go to the pool — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The uneven bars didn’t get invented on their own. Government research created the uneven bars so that all the gymnasts could spin around real fast on them.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like playing basketball, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own basketball court. That would be a hard way to play a game of b-ball.
I didn’t watch more than few minutes of closing, but I felt NBC did a better job covering the actual events, than any recent games coverage.
In the future, for Olympics and other sports events, I would like to see competition, not monopoly.
For example, how about a channel devoted entirely to track & field? Over streaming internet.
Netflix works amazingly well, so I see a future for sports broadcasts along those lines.
BTW in my area NBC is over the air HD, so the BEST coverage was by antenna, not costly cable.