Getting wet on a river, Olympic Opening Ceremony thread deux

[Theremedy]

Will it get awesome?

Who is roof guy?

Will the cauldron be in the Eiffel Tower?

"Peru - The original home of Paddington Bear" , really insightful comment there

I'm only on coffee.

Maybe it's the caffeine

Fundamentally agree with you, it looks haphazard and bizarre! Just not what i was wanting it to be!

In a minority of 1 but I don't mind it and the athlete bit is always a bit dull, and the whole thing is always 45 mins too long so the boats adds something - it will be better as it gets darker.
London was also amazing because we knew the history & who everyone was whereas we get random rapper/singers etc now.
Shame about the weather though.

I'd really been looking forward to this but it's all just a bit dull. Not a patch on 2012!!

I'm still laughing at the catwalk bit. Felt very weird to me

It looks less shit in the dark

Pitch black would be perfect

Great tune - fred falke

Definitively channelling Graham Norton now!

Looks like he’s watching his son who is crap at football play on a Sunday morning after a heavy Saturday night

The music has cheered up a bit too.

It’s terrible. They’ve definitely hit a new low 🤣

All the depression and existential angst 😂

DH described the catwalk as like a bad episode of Emily in Paris.

Be fair. They did produce an alligator in the catacombs and Minions in a submarine after they nicked the Mona Lisa.

It's slightly improved now that it's dark. But I'm not feeling like I'm watching an Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Lol maybe, my Pepsi was caffeine free so maybe that’s the secret to enjoying this OC!

Bring on the pool in the morning! I’m not enjoying this anywhere near as much as I enjoyed the crowd less Tokyo one

I’ve said that to a couple of exes

We literally just said that in our house! We need a bit of wit to make it more entertaining.

Who exactly is supposed to be able to see the catwalk ?

Random catwalk stuff 🤣🤣

Devi babs
😂

I can't get used to them switching between the fashion show and the boats. It's very disjointed.

The river is so choppy. Given there are reports of raw meat served in the athletes village yesterday, expect to see it soon.