my big fat greek olympics. night 1

[LastKnight]

opening ceremonies

discuss.

-LK

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. That stadium by Santiago Calatrava is beautiful.

He's creating treasures all over this planet.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. I wish I had some Ouzo right now .

Ok I wish that NBC would stop cutting to commercials grrrrr .

Its good to see the Olympics come back home to Greece .

The water in the Olympic stadium looks beautiful .

Why can't they show the entire opening ceremony WITHOUT commercials ?

[harper]

3. Liked the drums

hate all the commercials.

[Padraig18]

4. The Greeks are soooooo gracious and hospitable.

Everyone was afraid there'd be booing when the USA paraded in, but we underestimated how much class the Greeks have.

:)

[rusty charly]

17. i don't know if it so much "class"

there's some pretty crude greeks, but, they would never want to look bad in the eyes of the world. they're proud in a good way. not the arrogant "i don't care what THEY think" attitude of... well you know.

[LastKnight]

5. cool pool like thing and the centuar puppet is awesome too

i love this type of stuff, the ceremonial pagentry and whatnot, all the history and myth behind it makes it pretty interesting.

-LK

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. Cool ! Look at Cubeman !

[LastKnight]

7. now thats coordiantion. nt

[OKNancy]

8. The commercials really disrupt the mood

And also, I heard tons of ads that it would be on HD. Our HD station has re-runs of the 2002 Salt Lake games. Wonder what's up?

[LastKnight]

10. aside from the whole comercial bit, its all done very well. nt

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. Ok , who is hotter - Cubeman or Eros ?

I need to get to the gym and fast .

[LastKnight]

11. whos that lady giving birth to, ET?

its GLOWING. lol.

-LK

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

12. She is giving birth to LIFE .

Okay thats what they always do lol .

[LastKnight]

13. i like the laserlight projection stuff

i wonder h ow many lights they are using... pretty cool sutff.

-LK

[LastKnight]

14. ok now the boringish part, parade of nations...

im interested in what the reaction will be to the US delegation. ill have to watch this parade instead of skipping it like i do every olympics.

-LK

[Padraig18]

15. I already heard the reaction on the news...

They were quite gracious to our athletes.

:)

[LastKnight]

16. is there any channel that they show this stuff live?

im always up anyway, so id like to watch this stuff live if i can.

-LK

[rusty charly]

18. here?

http://www.3gnewsroom.com/3g_news/jun_04/news_4647.shtml

[rusty charly]

19. or here?

http://www.seven.com.au/seven/orphan_olympics_biggestevent

[rusty charly]

20. "What's amusing

...is that NBC will do the same dumb thing they've done in the past, which gets dumber every passing year: tape delay events. Americans are big people, not children, and if an event happens at 4:30am, true fans will do their best to catch it (either live, on tape, or TiVo). But NBC can't sell ad slots, so they'll hold stuff off until 8pm when they can get the big bucks and edit events into a blur of biographies featuring sunsets, struggles, and plenty of violin soundtracks. But in the age of the internet, you'll know results as they happen, hours before they ever get on TV. I hated this during the Japan games, and purposely had to avoid some sports sites to wait until I could watch the events later.

You know what's going to be big at this year's olympics? Bittorrent. Even the Opening Ceremonies are delayed by several hours in the US, and my guess is that you'll find crisp, digital copies of BBC or other EU network recordings soon after they happen, and before they show in the US, as DivX files on torrent servers."

http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/08/the_olympics_ar.html