Edminster wrote:Okay I've gone ahead and found the only page that is important so pay attention as this is literally the only thing worth watching for the Winter Olympics:
fuck yeah
Curling is the event I'm most excited for! It helps that I'm from the prairies, and this is pretty much all we do because you can do it while drinking.
Lethal Interjection wrote:Notable opening ceremony things...
Great anthem. Imaginative. Though I'm a little bored with that girl and her stupid I Believe song.
Nelly Furtado pooching the lipsync.
The whale thing. Really awesome.
Most of the autumn segment. Loved the fiddling/tapdancing, and was happy to see MacIsaac jump out at the end.
KD Lang. She's a lot better than I've given her credit for. I did not like her in the 90s. But that was pretty good, and the only performance of the night that I was convinced wasn't synced. Although, I'm pretty sick of people covering that as, even though she recorded a version quite some time ago, it is the 5th (Buckley, Rice, Wainwright, Timberlake) version I've heard. Still good, though.
Romeo Dallaire. The other people? Fine. But I was happy to see him included. I would've liked a more forefront position, ultimately. But I didn't even think of him as someone to be used, even though I think he represents the global picture of Canadia better than anyone else that was involved.
Did not like the popped up version of Oh Canadia. She did it well, I just don't particularly like that style of music.
I'm glad Furtado screwed up the lip syncing. Teach them to force all the singers to do it. Also I liked her dress, she looked like she was wearing a giant bow.
So that was MacIsaac. I thought it was, but I don't know him well enough to be sure.
I've always quite liked KD Lang, though I'm really disappointed she couldn't be singing live, she's pretty good live. (In case you can't tell, I'm really pretty disappointed about the whole not trusting performers to actually sing bit.) I am also very happy to report that the only cover of Cohen's
Hallelujah that I have ever heard is KD Lang's, and I don't want to change that because that is an amazing song, and I don't need to hear it by any other artists, it's perfect as is.
Romeo Dallaire is one of my heroes, and I was so excited to see him carrying the flag, even if he wasn't as prominent as he deserved to be.
Other thoughts I had:
Why not have a guy with his hair gelled into horns on a canoe playing the fiddle?
I'm not sure I got the symbolism of the prairie part. I'm also pretty certain that most people in the prairies don't fly (at least not that I've ever noticed), so I must be missing something.
I'm pretty sure Harper and Jean were sleeping one of the times they went over them.
I'm pretty sure the First Nations dancers were getting pretty bored/tired by the the time Uzbekistan went through.
I can't say I'm fond of Ron MacLean as an announcer. 90% of it was idle chit chat to fill time that I didn't care for, and some of it was just bizarre, like saying '[insert random former Soviet Union country] is looking forward to defeating the Russians after being occupied for so long' as though it was just a friendly rivalry, or 'We're going to look at this Inuit Creation story. Try and suspend your sense of logic for a little bit here.' Could you imagine if someone was going to put on the story of the Virgin birth and begin it with, 'Now try and suspend any sense of logic you might have.' Just before? Or if someone was about to put on the story of Cinderella and someone made that comment? Whether it's a widely believed story or not, he's immediately making the insinuation that the people putting it on, or where the story comes from are ignorant and believe a story that's obviously not true. It just struck me as a bit patronizing. And then there was that Hitler comment...
I couldn't figure out if my favourite thing about Measha Brueggergosman was her hair, her dress or her voice.
All those torch bearers looked kind of awkward while they were waiting for the floor to open up again, but I'm pretty sure the worst was Steve Nash. That smile looked pretty plastered on, poor guy.