Opening ceremony

Call me a traditionalist if you will but from what I saw it looked like a load of crap.

I kept asking Mrs FootOfDavros where the stadium was and what was going on - She had no answers...

Anyway, I like to see the athletes entering and wondering around the stadium waving and I like to see some famous sports personality of the country running up the side of that same stadium to light the raised Olympic Cauldron.

NBC coverage made the event unwatchable. Too many ads, U.S. actors with some promoting movies/shows, and zero talk or knowledge about the international athletes making entrance. They barely showed them. I gave up and switched it off after an hour.

The small amount of ceremony I was able to see looked interesting. Maybe the French will post the whole thing on YouTube so I can watch it in the future.

ABC Sports used to do excellent coverage prior to the 80s. I guess I'm spoiled.

I only saw highlights, but the bits I saw were very Eurovision (or as people on social media suggested reminiscent of the old Channel 4 TV show Eurotrash) -- which is fun. Eurovision is probably 'controversial' among a certain demographic of Americans too, but -- y'know -- they have their culture, we have ours and ne'er the twain shall meet.

How did the mentally ill get to reenact "The Last Supper" to promote The Gay Agenda? Who allowed this and why is it relevant to the Olympics? I hadn't planned on watching any of the Olympics and I really won't watch them now.

I cannot stand them, to be honest, but whose idea was it not to use a stadium? The athletes deserve more than to be sailed down a river, in the stadium you get to see the whole show and the rings coming together, let's face it nothing is ever going to beat the Brit's 2012 show. But imagine being in the crowd and all you see is a load of boats passing by and a fireworks show.

Uh- NO, after heaing what I have been hearing about it.