Brekkie post_id=66968 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Most things get a free pass due to covid at the moment but I hope the reliance on AR and projections etc. passes once we're back to ceremonies with a full cast and a full crowd. I think they've done a good job in the circumstances though and it feels a bit more positive than the Tokyo ceremony did. And if in doubt, get a few kids to sing.

Brekkie post_id=66968 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Most things get a free pass due to covid at the moment but I hope the reliance on AR and projections etc. passes once we're back to ceremonies with a full cast and a full crowd. I think they've done a good job in the circumstances though and it feels a bit more positive than the Tokyo ceremony did. And if in doubt, get a few kids to sing.

Brekkie post_id=66976 time= user_id=976 Wrote:I know they've been scaling down the cauldrons in recent years but just sticking a regular torch in it is really taking the mick. The snowflake looks spectacular but the flame itself looks awful. As nice as that was I think the ceremony missed it's big moment like Tokyo had with the sports routine.

Brekkie post_id=66968 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Most things get a free pass due to covid at the moment but I hope the reliance on AR and projections etc. passes once we're back to ceremonies with a full cast and a full crowd. I think they've done a good job in the circumstances though and it feels a bit more positive than the Tokyo ceremony did. And if in doubt, get a few kids to sing.


Will almost certainly overrun now but pretty much every opening ceremony does - perhaps especially when they promise it'll be shorter. The parade and then the speeches always go on longer than the director assumes.

Reviewer Dominic Patten Wrote:A Chinese-hosted Winter Olympics in the Year of the Tiger should having been roaring, instead this morning’s Opening Ceremony alternated between boring and brutal.

The Deadline journalist also Wrote:Likely indicating how the “enhanced,” as NBC has called it, primetime version of the opening ceremony will look with all its bells and whistles, this morning’s coverage cut early to a backstage feel-good interview with speed skater Erin Jackson once Tirico and the Stateside Guthrie hit their opening geopolitical notes.

“With the Winter Olympics, you don’t see a whole lot of diversity, so I just hope I can be someone who they can see and be like oh, maybe I’ll get out try one of these sports, so that would be awesome,” the top-ranked Jackson replied as members of the Canadian and Swiss teams strolled by to NBC’s masked Lewis Johnson on what she wanted to show “other young Black girls.”

To conclude, Mr Patten Wrote:Unlike 2008, a China burly in its economic and military strength today ripped off the mask of international sports détente and gashed its teeth in a very clear selfie of its own.

The result was dull TV, but arresting geopolitics.

Hatton Cross post_id=66926 time= user_id=1471 Wrote:Have to say highlight of the OBS operation for me has been the lovely OBS fleeces the camera operatives are wearing.
Would love one of those!

Brekkie post_id=66986 time= user_id=976 Wrote:As important as it really is not to gloss over the issues surrounding China hosting these games I'm glad the BBC commentary focused on the event and on the athletes. The politics and human rights issues can be discussed extensively in pieces around that but shouldn't be within the event themselves IMO and the BBC got the balance right by covering it in the build up rather than during the commentary.

Brekkie post_id=66939 time= user_id=976 Wrote:I do think the BBC should have used Steve Cram for this. John and Gigi are fine but a more familiar voice would lift things. Feels a bit like a World Feed commentary.