munichfan Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Great start, then it went down REALLY REALLY badly after the parade. Congrats Korea, you pulled off the best one of the Asian bunch! Quote
Ikarus360 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 I knew the moment they said this would be innovating and never done before, we should be frightened. The olympic ceremonies as we used to know them are never coming back, isn't it..... Quote
Olympian2004 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 I can't believe what we have just seen. They must be joking. This makes Tokyo's opening ceremony trainwreck look like the Orient Express. 2 Quote
Australian Kiwi Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, AustralianFan said: I like it. Of course you like it. You've been the one singing praises about the IOC's slide into authoritarian governance. 1 Quote
Shiruba98 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 That was horrible. Worst Olympic opening ceremony I've seen in a while. Quote
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Lots of jumping up and down to get round the low-key cauldron! Quote
FYI Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 WTF! Did I miss something here?! Where was the "unprecedented-ness" of it?! Quote
SkiFreak Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Did their budget run out to build an actual cauldron? Quote
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 I didn’t realise the snowflake was made up of the countries placards Quote
Olympian2004 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Paris 2024 will have a candle if this trend continues. Milan and Cortina will leave it at a burning match. Los Angeles should be worried. Quote
munichfan Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Somehow this was even more underwhelming than Tokyo. At least they had a cauldron and there were some very enjoyable sequences (I really liked the pictograms section, for example). Quote
krow Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 that was...anti-climactic. i thought they were going to set an athlete on fire or something. 1 1 Quote
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Olympian2004 said: I can't believe what we have just seen. They must be joking. This makes Tokyo's opening ceremony trainwreck look like the Orient Express. No, this was more positive and more co-ordinated. But it was very lowest-common-denominator (Imagine!) Quote
SkiFreak Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Ok, time to get the games out of Asia. The last 3 OC installments were bland. Give me Lillehammer, Vancouver, Atlanta, London any day. 1 Quote
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, FYI said: WTF! Did I miss something here?! Where was the "unprecedented-ness" of it?! You missed something here Quote
FYI Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, Shiruba98 said: That was horrible. Worst Olympic opening ceremony I've seen in a while. This just gives Tokyo 2020ne some well-deserved vindication then!! Quote
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 No cauldron? What the snowflake gonna float the whole 2 weeks? Quote
yoshi Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 What the hell was that?! The cauldron is a torch plugged into a snowflake shaped copy of London's idea... that was a letdown. At least it means Xi can't say he did a better opening ceremony... Quote
Brekkie Boy Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Is that the cauldron? I know they've been getting smaller to be greener but sticking a hand held torch in a snowflake is ridiculous. Was expecting at least the snowflake to be lit. Anyway, well done Atlanta - you no longer have the worst cauldron ever. As for the ceremony - a better tone than Tokyo and you can't go far wrong relying on children in the absense of a big showcase spectacular. The parade though goes on far too long as always and I think viewers need more than 15 minutes to warm up for it - much better to front load the artistic part and then get through to the lighting of the flame quite quickly after. 1 Quote
Olympian2004 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, munichfan said: Great start, then it went down REALLY REALLY badly after the parade. Congrats Korea, you pulled off the best one of the Asian bunch! True, Pyeongchang delivered a pretty good opening ceremony and very decent Winter Games in total. Here's hoping that the quality of Beijing's OC is not reflective of the quality of the entire Games... Quote
Kenadian Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 They could have at least lit a candle. Quote
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 Gonna be a bitch if that flame goes out... Quote
Nacholympic Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 No cauldron!! That's why it was "a never before" Short, simple, pandemic but good At least, much better than Tokyo. Quote
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 With that LED tech, they could have rivalled Sochi. But they chose "modesty" Quote
FYI Posted February 4, 2022 Report Posted February 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, JMarkSnow2012 said: You missed something here You mean the Cauldron?! Quote
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