So… I haven't read any of your comments guys. This is the recap of a non lefty french personn who had a short and very agitated night. Like the ceremony, it will be a chaotic mess of confusing feelings
* I don't enjoy opening cermony. I usually got bored very soon and wish the thing to end up as quickly as possible. Yesterday, I may have wished for the ceremony to end quicky but not because I got bored !
* I - really - load the organisation to have tried something unique and new. But, it was a mess. The filming was bad and the realisation was so many time completly lost. Probably, because they couldn't have full routines previewed in a closed environment like a stadium, they had to improvise along the way.
* We have missed so many things on television ! Like the guys during their sport trick on the platforms. In a stadium, the spectacle spectators and telespectators get is roughly the same, here it was not. Unfortunately, I Don't think it was a success for neither.
* The Energy in display was fantastic
* Gojira !
* People who have done it have zero sense of historicity, history for them is simply a serie of historical anecdotes with no real value.
* The quasi absence of Coubertin was expected, but still unforgivable. That's my biggest Fuck Them take
* I thought I would felt a bit ashamed by the presence of local artist whose artistic quality seem to me less than obvious. Thanks to the crazy high energy of the show I wasn't
* The « Europe » segment was about 20 secondes too long (and yes it was 20 seconds)
* The woke stuff was so much in your face and with zero suitability that it was almost comical.
* These people don't know how enraged some people will be after seeing their show. Maybe, they know, but they don't care or even they wish to harm them. But I think they don't know, their ideology bubble is so strong.
* The Marseillaise singing setup was fantastic but as so many other things it was ruined by a god awful filming)
* Love the horse thing and the build up of olympic history
* It was all better when the ceremony reached the Trocadéro. I hope other will try their luck with an in the city ceremony, but I think you need some anchor place (a stadium or otherwise)
*No one knew the Eiffel Tower could lighten up like that !
*The last segment that lead to the mongolfiere was great. I didn't spoil myself, so as far as I was concerned it was a big surprise and I really enjoyed the scenery of the various athletes carying the torch.
I think that's it, sport can't start soon enough.