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?

Did the team from Chad miss their boat and have to be squeezed in with the S teams?

BBC commentary reminds me of the commentators from the Pitch Perfect films, but without the double entendres.

I would have loved that.

How do they get back to the start?

Well, I was watching Suspect, and it was unrelentingly grim, so switched channels and this is deifnitely not grim.

The trouble is, for those who find the bit where the athletes walk out boring (not me), that is normally over and done with in one go. Now it's the whole ceremony.

Is there some sort of giant boat park off screen?

Also this would be better as a bumps race.

I'd be demanding a bottle of the finest Bolly if I had to stand on a boat in a pac a Mac getting very wet and look happy about it!
Tuvalu ! It's a pointless answer that one

Omg can you imagine how much fun that would be. Also because I love Elizabeth Banks

This is truly depressing and grim. The commentators aren’t helping. Such a let down. What were Paris thinking!?

Have I missed the Northern Ireland boat?

I quite enjoyed Lady Gaga.

Yes. That’s what I was thinking. It’s normally a much smaller part of the ceremony.

I was saying that to dd. Imagine standing there waiting to get on one of the fancy big boats, then getting directed to one of the tiny ones.

I think they are running out of boats

I feel like Tokyo2020 it took forever

It's in the order of French names. So maybe Chad is Shad in French?

Rather these than young hyper commentators. Good old Auntie keeping it calm and collected.

Did I miss Spain and Alcazar?

I hate the shared boats. Should have a boat suiting the size of your Olympic party. I want to see the tiny countries with one representative urn up on those little Butlins spinny bumper boats.

She’s been on and gone off at the beginning

The cat walk one is the bridge to be on
They are having a ball

Tchad

Why the heck did they start the ceremony at dusk? It looks so much better under lights.

What’s the purpose of the catwalk/dancers? We can’t watch them.