What they didn't seem to pick up or portray well was the spontaneous standing ovation the Georgian team was given when they entered the arena. Apparently that was a tremendously powerful and emotional moment in the stadium, but they didn't really capture it well, in my opinion.
The floor and fabric ceiling structure that showed video were both very impressive, moreso because the floor had people tromping all over it all night, so it had to be tough as well as being a massive video display.
Along with a lot of Canadians, from what I read in the local editorials, I wasn't a fan of the interpretation of the national anthem that was used. I really liked Sarah McLachlan's performance and the accompanying dance routine, and I liked how they integrated the video floor and clouds with performances throughout. Bu then they lost me at the tap-dancing Viking fiddling logger-punks, or whatever they were supposed to be.
I thought it was interesting that they threw in a performer (probably famous, but as with most Canadian celebrities, I didn't recognize him. I recognized Brian Adams and Sarah McLachlan and The Great One of course, and wasn't that Donald Sutherland's voice? and that was about it) who sort of replicated the "I am Joe" Molson commercial guy. It's still sort of a defensive, if good-natured, reaction to the perceived perception of Canadians to the rest of the world. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are and where you are from, of course, but it says something about the nature of that pride that it is presented as a response to the mild aspersions of others. It may be time to get over it, if indeed it was ever important what anyone else thought in the first place.
We'd heard about the flame lighting malfunction and I had hoped that everyone was simply making a big deal out of a small glitch, but no, it was pretty excruciating to watch. Nothing to be done about it, of course, and it didn't detract from the lighting being pretty impressive.
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