I saw the whole thing, or rather, my tv was on for the duration of the whole thing. There were some neat things in there, and Celine Dion proved she can still sing, but there were a lot of errors which was quite annoying. Both technical (which in this day and age I really can’t understand), and in performance. The worst part was when they hung the Olympic Flag upside down. There were also things like the country name flags on the boats being too big and too high and I don’t get why there were Minions.
Overall, a lot of things took way too long. The drag show, the breakdancing by a guy who then also had to sing (or, pretend to) a song, the lightshow at the end. The horse that went all across the Seine and took half an hour just to bring the flag. The torch bearer went all through Paris through and over buildings (yes, he also made me think about Assassin’s Creed Unity) to finally end up at the Eiffel Tower, where I thought they’d light the fire and he’d be revealed to be someone famous, only to pass the torch back to Zidane (who already had it in a video all the way at the start) who then gave it to Raphael Nadal to take it on a boat again all the way up the river back to the Louvre to give it to more people in a relay finally going to the spot where the flame was lit. While the torch bearer had already been there hours earlier.
I get it just takes a lot of time to sail down the Seine and this needed to be filled with entertainment, but was it really necessary to do this three times? All in all I think they could’ve easily slashed an hour off this ceremony.
Last edited by S.Peelman - on 28 July 2024
