The Olympics are here! Or, up North of “here”, at least. It’s entertaining for me to see the ads for British Columbia: beautiful! scenic! ethnic! natives, food, snow, activies!!!! I KNOW that a big reason cities rally to get the Olympics to come to their location is to help their economy (bring in jobs and tourists) and it’s going to be very beneficial for BC to get all those people up there. I still can’t really take their TV ads seriously.
On the other hand, I LOVE that the games have started! I enjoyed the opening cermony even though I think it was all a little strange. The tapdancers I enjoyed – not sure if it was the massive choreography and rhythmic sound or the fact that it was a little out of the ordinary? Native clans coming out in their dancing gear – that was pretty cool. I was hoping we’d get more up-close views of their outfits because they looked like some neat embellishments. I can’t believe they were dancing the entier time the countries/athletes were being announced! Dancing for that long has to be exhausting.
It was the guy running and flying part that I didn’t understand. It was kind of creative, not really entertaining, and I didn’t think it was really Olympics-worthy. Call me a scrooge but I didn’t care for it. The skiers and snowboarders flying down the mountain with the skaters below was weird to me too. The audience seemed to enjoy it, so maybe it didn’t get conveyed properly for me across the TV?
Now the ceremony is aside and we can look forward to catching all of our favorite sports on TV and rooting those athletes on. When’s the figure skating start? I think that’s what I am most looking forward to.
I’m totally with you on this! The ceremony was unimpressive for me, too.