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What a cracker!
And here's me at 7pm thinking 'meh, I may as well watch the beginning'.
An hour and a bit later:
Dohohoho.
Fantastic all together. Loved it. I admit there were bits that I felt very emotional in; but I'm not ashamed of that. Equally, there was plenty of respite from my gentleness where I was given ample opportunity to laugh out loud.
Well done Danny Boyle.
And here's me at 7pm thinking 'meh, I may as well watch the beginning'.
An hour and a bit later:
Dohohoho.
Fantastic all together. Loved it. I admit there were bits that I felt very emotional in; but I'm not ashamed of that. Equally, there was plenty of respite from my gentleness where I was given ample opportunity to laugh out loud.
Well done Danny Boyle.
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I thought it was really good, Mr Bean/Rowan Atkinson was funny.
I was disappointed by Paul McCartney, he's had his day. Snow Patrol were fab. I was also really proud of the queen, she's practically a fossil yet stuck through the whole thing.
Here's hoping things continue in that vein,
This. Except the Snow Patrol thing. They should have been excluded for clearly taking a bland substance.
Anyway I can't believe how petty some countries are being. First the Koreans having a tantrum over the wrong flags being used. Secondly the Indians are having a paddy because they decided their team wasn't given enough 'tv time', plus some woman who was not part of the team or delegation found her way in to the procession. Apparently India wants "an apology" from Logoc. I'm surprised they don't demand 'compensation' too.
I loved that specially loved that special composition that Underworld wrote (Caliban's Dream) when Steve Redgrave handed the flame to the youngsters. Beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mec8GZkEpD4
Snow Patrol have been doing the Hyde Park concert. I assume taht is what was meant.
AM were good.
I'm not sure that "petty" is the word I would use. They have been at war with the South for about 60 years. It was pretty offensive.
I also loved that we had pretty much continual drumming, and great involvement from children including solo singing to start it off. This was a great show and impressively answered the question of what would be able to follow on from Beijing.
Perhaps. I'm not saying they shouldn't have been angry. But refusing to play? THAT is what I call petty.
Like I said, I get that they were angry about it. But refusing to play until it was rectified? That's just childish, having a tantrum on the world stage. This is meant to be a celebration of sport and throwing their toys out of the pram is not what I call sporting.
Yeah even I had a bit of a girl crush on her.
Ceremony was awesome. Loved the idea of the olympic torches all coming together into one united torch at the end. Sigh
Danny Boyle is so smart and the unnamed geniuses who must have had a hand in it. Was also impressed by the Queen scarily enough too.
Hope they release it on DVD. The album of the music is out atm, which I really want.
Hearing you say that has given me a shiver down my spine, especially after watching all the Brits performing so brilliantly today - I have to confess I probably didn't get as much work done as I should have....
Hearing you say that has given me a shiver down my spine, especially after watching all the Brits performing so brilliantly today - I have to confess I probably didn't get as much work done as I should have....
Haha - that says it all. (It was the Arctic Monkeys)
I tried to hate it. Failed.