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?

This made me laugh until I wheezed, and the cat is giving me funny looks. Bad LIZS 😂

Probably in the wine bar

Spoiler alert: the horse breaks in half and sinks, the horse rider takes the mask off and reveals Celine Dion singing the Titanic song.

When does it finish? Exhausting

What about the bloke in Much Wenlock?

Charlotte Dujardin trained that horse!

Um who is driving this horse boat thing?

👏👏👏

This is where they should have hosted the ceremony

We did work out it was the founder of the Olympics.

However DH is sticking to his 'worst people in French history' guesses.

How dark is it compared to UK?

5 hours more like...

I like the horse. And that submarine trimaran is very cool.

@scottishheather86 he does, but we’ve watched the whole thing and drunk quite a bit of wine so he is irritated. 😁

@Serencwtch my thoughts exactly

I think we’re all feeling emotions

They're an hour ahead

It’s huge actually, just far far away.

I want the Minions to win a gold medal.

Mange tout! Mange tout!

Finally, something resembling the Olympics

Give over. The 2012 opening ceremony was bonkers and hilarious. Nothing dull about it.

I thought the Trocadero was the weather contingency plan... I suppose it started raining too late to move the ceremony?

The whole ceremony would have looked better in front of the ET

My French pal who lives in Paris says he's escaped to the South of France and is watching on TV. He's described it as self-indulgent arty fuckery.

The silver horse is the best bit, but would be better if you couldn't see what it was on.

Well at least its stopped raining