The Greatest Show on Earth ("Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises")

[elisi]

Although really, the best word is magical.

♥

(We were at my in-law's last night, and put up a big screen, and ended up staying the night due to lateness. Hence the lateness of this post.)

ETA: I think The New York Times might have said it best: "With its hilariously quirky Olympic opening ceremony, a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful; the conventional and the eccentric; and the frankly off-the-wall, Britain presented itself to the world Friday night as something it has often struggled to express even to itself: a nation secure in its own post-empire identity, whatever that actually is."

(And Kenneth Branagh as Isambard Kingdom Brunel was just... *hands* And Jerusalem! So much there. A million brilliant little touches. Really, in a nutshell, this show was like Doctor Who: Madman with a box Stadium.)

Comments

[elisi]

I didn't exactly get everything
There were THAT many injokes & British references that I am still in a daft happy place.

she lost her cell phone and he found it? And there was a house in the middle?
Basically yes. It was all about how the internet/mobile phones/social networks have transformed people's lives. Hence the ending with the inventor of the internet.

but I caught enough British pop culture references to enjoy it!
Well it was just too darn enjoyable. *g*