Alright, so it was started by a tumblr RP blog, but I figured you would appreciate the post, regardless. Of course that could just be the lack of coffee talking. Anyway, here we have a message regarding the unfortunate side effects of the opening ceremonies.
Wasn't it cool? I liked the whole thing pretty much - but the Forging of the Rings of Power was neat, and I liked their 'Tynwald Hill' with all the flags being planted in it, along with the more obvious things like the queen - I loved that!
Yaaah- as soon as I'd read somewhere that Danny Boyle was the main person working with creating the ceremony- my first thought was "This is the same guy that directed Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and Slumdog Millionaire.... This ceremony is going to kick some official ass. x]"
The *other* NYTimes article about the ceremony pointed out bemusedly how out-of-tune the American broadcast commentary was with the tone of the show:
NBC didn’t share the British art of playfulness. Even though the ceremony was shown with a time delay (no live streams allowed), the network prefaced the opening ceremony with its own opening, a solemn and pompous video celebration of the Olympics, narrated by the actors Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. Ryan Seacrest came next, interviewing two members of the American gymnastics team. Later, Seacrest returned to ask the swimmer Michael Phelps whether he could emerge from these games as the greatest Olympian of all time. Phelps shook Seacrest off like a leg cramp
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he *other* NYTimes article about the ceremony pointed out bemusedly how out-of-tune the American broadcast commentary was with the tone of the show *snerk* We're eccentric and proud of it!
Our main anchor, Bob Costas, has been at it for . . . as long as I can remember, and he makes Wonder Bread look exciting. Oooh we have a similar thing. Well, for YEARS AND YEARS we had Terry Wogan doing the commentary to Eurovision, and he was alsways fabulous and a bit snarky and dafter as the night went on and he got more drunk... He quit a few years ago, but they replaced him with Graham Norton who carries on the tradition in FINE style. Anyways, I understand the importance of traditions. *nods* Our commenters were rather good - quiet a lot of the time, informative when necessary and generally OK.
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.
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ETA: And even IF time ends up all broken, then it was TOTALLY worth it!
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*CACKLES*
S'no wonder he is the national icon...to everyone across the pond, lol!!
*TACKLES*
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YES IT WAS! \o/
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Yaaah- as soon as I'd read somewhere that Danny Boyle was the main person working with creating the ceremony- my first thought was "This is the same guy that directed Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and Slumdog Millionaire.... This ceremony is going to kick some official ass. x]"
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NBC didn’t share the British art of playfulness. Even though the ceremony was shown with a time delay (no live streams allowed), the network prefaced the opening ceremony with its own opening, a solemn and pompous video celebration of the Olympics, narrated by the actors Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. Ryan Seacrest came next, interviewing two members of the American gymnastics team. Later, Seacrest returned to ask the swimmer Michael Phelps whether he could emerge from these games as the greatest Olympian of all time. Phelps shook Seacrest off like a leg cramp ( ... )
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*snerk* We're eccentric and proud of it!
Our main anchor, Bob Costas, has been at it for . . . as long as I can remember, and he makes Wonder Bread look exciting.
Oooh we have a similar thing. Well, for YEARS AND YEARS we had Terry Wogan doing the commentary to Eurovision, and he was alsways fabulous and a bit snarky and dafter as the night went on and he got more drunk... He quit a few years ago, but they replaced him with Graham Norton who carries on the tradition in FINE style. Anyways, I understand the importance of traditions. *nods* Our commenters were rather good - quiet a lot of the time, informative when necessary and generally OK.
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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
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