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

[promethia_tenk]

Oh my god *headdesk*

Access to most of NBC's online coverage of the Olympics, like all the online streaming, is restricted to people who can prove they pay a cable bill, and my (very, very) basic cable has been deemed insufficiently pricy to count.

Dear NBC:

Are you or are you not a national broadcast network, available free over the airwaves to anyone with an antenna? Because if not, there's some pubic spectrum and probably a bunch of tax breaks and other government incentives that I'd like back so that I can give them to the internet corporations that are plotting your inevitable demise.

No love,
Promethia