is it just me or have all the olympic ceremonies to date been drawn way out unnecessarily? i managed to catch some of it tonight and jesus christ...some of it was long and painful.
take the anthem...did she really need to draw it out THAT much? like is it "oh.....(pausepausepause)...caaaaaaa-naaaaaaaaaaa-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"? really? i dont think so. the anthems we sung in elementary school were succinct and to the point. this one took at least 2 full minutes, including the french portion, which i thought was sped-sung in comparison.
then the climax leading up to the lighting of the cauldron (or whatever facsimilie)...we must have watched for 10 minutes as they passed the flame from rick hansen to steve nash to nancy greene to others before they handed it off to gretzky. then from there watching him ride around vancouver to light the final torch was painful as well. we kept thinking he was going to hand it off to some uber canadian celebrity, but no. we were throwing out suggestions as gretzky was driven around downtown: michael j. fox! donald sutherland! pamela anderson! (that one was mostly a joke because we were sure she'd cry out "i'm melting" and her tittays would melt off) mr dressup! the littlest hobo! relic! insert great canadian icon here!
i'm not saying that wayner wasnt worth it. i do love my wayne, but they really could have shortened the whole fucking thing by about 15 minutes and we'd still have had the same end result.
i dont know...i think if the opening ceremonies were any indication, we're in for a long drawn out 17 days.
is it just me or have all the olympic ceremonies to date been drawn way out unnecessarily? i managed to catch some of it tonight and jesus christ...some of it was long and painful.
take the anthem...did she really need to draw it out THAT much? like is it "oh.....(pausepausepause)...caaaaaaa-naaaaaaaaaaa-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"? really? i dont think so. the anthems we sung in elementary school were succinct and to the point. this one took at least 2 full minutes, including the french portion, which i thought was sped-sung in comparison.
then the climax leading up to the lighting of the cauldron (or whatever facsimilie)...we must have watched for 10 minutes as they passed the flame from rick hansen to steve nash to nancy greene to others before they handed it off to gretzky. then from there watching him ride around vancouver to light the final torch was painful as well. we kept thinking he was going to hand it off to some uber canadian celebrity, but no. we were throwing out suggestions as gretzky was driven around downtown: michael j. fox! donald sutherland! pamela anderson! (that one was mostly a joke because we were sure she'd cry out "i'm melting" and her tittays would melt off) mr dressup! the littlest hobo! relic! insert great canadian icon here!
i'm not saying that wayner wasnt worth it. i do love my wayne, but they really could have shortened the whole fucking thing by about 15 minutes and we'd still have had the same end result.
i dont know...i think if the opening ceremonies were any indication, we're in for a long drawn out 17 days.
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