Opening ceremony

Pherekydes

Anyone watching?

Spectacular eh?

Who'd have thought there'd be fireworks?

robinph

Fireworks are a really unexpected twist alright.

Can only see it in a slightly blocky picture streaming, but how was that countdown done at the start, were they the drums lighting up or something?

ratinakeg

Who'd have thought there'd be fireworks?[/quote]

LOL. never thought they would have them. Ceremonies are normally rubbish but this is impressive. Why do i feel hungry.

Doubs

Pretty spectacular alright, the opening was savage. Getting a bit bored now however (german tv stream not helping )... looking forward to the ending though!

Edit: there were people responsible for that columns thingy?! Serious synchronisation going on, they must have been drilling for months!

robinph

How on earth are you supposed to know what country is coming up next? Uzbekistan followed by Barbados, even if it was folowing the French country names is a little more logical.

titan18

It was brilliant but the way teh countries are coming out is annoying me.It started in Beijing at 8.08 aswell.

Frankie Lee

What a waste of money i say and all the starving people in Darfur.:mad:

robinph

Whats with the playing of the bagpipes?

FatherTed

robinph wrote: »

How on earth are you supposed to know what country is coming up next? Uzbekistan followed by Barbados, even if it was folowing the French country names is a little more logical.

It is always in the host country's alphabet order. Which is mandarin for these olympics.

titan18

robinph wrote: »

Whats with the playing of the bagpipes?

Theres 5 orchestras from 5 continents of the world

oneweb

robinph wrote: »

how was that countdown done at the start, were they the drums lighting up or something?

The lead-up to it involved a lot of fireworks which were set off to look and sound like giant feet walking over the city, was cool

What on EARTH is with those gobsh!te Irish narrators, "the pictures you are seeing now are being taken by two helicopters". They're talking absolute rubbish, why not just let us listen to the music ffs!!! :mad:

oneweb

Oh and "There's Poland. Lovely people. Very hard working." And "what's your account number" when one of the countries associated with scams appeared. :rolleyes:

KevIRL

That was a class opening ceremony. the lighting of the torch at the end was brilliant.

Pherekydes

oneweb wrote: »

Oh and "There's Poland. Lovely people. Very hard working." And "what's your account number" when one of the countries associated with scams appeared. :rolleyes:

That's why I watched on the BeeB. A spectacular climax. The climax is always important.

sceptre

Did the RTE broadcast stop before the flame was lit? The BBC coverage went on till 17:15 while the RTE one was scheduled to end half an hour earlier.

KevIRL

sceptre wrote: »

Did the RTE broadcast stop before the flame was lit? The BBC coverage went on till 17:15 while the RTE one was scheduled to end half an hour earlier.

They stopped just after the flame was lit. It was on the big screen on RTE here in work. I was watching the BBC coverage on my PC though

titan18

If ye have Eurosport,watch it on that.Theres no crap Irish commentary and no ' we cant wait for London 2012' from the BBC

Supercell

Highlights on BBC1 now, absolutely stunning. have to say without a doubt this is far and away the most impressive opening ceremony I've ever seen.

Mint Sauce

watching the re run now on eurosport, absolutly amazing, only managed to see the torch light ealier, very impressive

Mint Sauce

Doubs wrote: »

Edit: there were people responsible for that columns thingy?! Serious synchronisation going on, they must have been drilling for months!

10 months acording to the eurosport commentry

:eek:

Supercell

I was watching that and thinking thats impossible!!
Then watching closer the runners were gracefully jumping the cables..its was utterly utterly amazing, not surprised it took 10 months to get it right.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Spectacular opening ceremony, very impressed.

Now just to look forward to the boxing and Judo coverage.

carsonsunhao

not because of i am a chinese:p, however, this opening was absolutly chest-beating, unforgetable, amazing, spectacular.......loved the part of the painting was done by children, the sun was turned into a smiley face, sweet olympics:p

FatherTed

It was absolutely terrific. I'm sure the Brits are saying this morning, "How the f-k are we going to top that?".

pH

FatherTed wrote: »

It was absolutely terrific. I'm sure the Brits are saying this morning, "How the f-k are we going to top that?".

You could always CGI a chunk of it and insert that into the the live broadcast like the Chinese did.

lostexpectation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2534499/Beijing-Olympic-2008-opening-ceremony-giant-firework-footprints-faked.html
footprints faked !