Am I the only one or is the olympics - not the events, not the athletes - but the "THING" that is the organization & ceremonies etc just getting more and more weird, and over-produced?
Hints to the Canada, host country for the Winter Games 2010:
- Just bring on the little girl (dressed like a little girl, please) and let her sing your national anthem with patriotic reverence and skip the superbowl-like embellishments.
- No Jessica Simpson-esque jaw contortions.
- No attitude.
- No wardrobe malfunctions.
- No voiceover saying ''the performers come together to form a beating heart, the obvious universal symbol of passion." Who writes this stuff? Just shut up and let me watch and draw my own conclusions, OK?
Leave the interpretive dancers that look like farm animals in the barn
Background choral music, overload of informative, overproduced, over-musically backed, overwritten and over voice-overed - Just say NO!
I like Botticelli. I think that ''The Birth of Venus" is a lovely painting. Reencating it is over the top.
And please, if I have to listen to Jim Lampley or Bob Costas deliver scripted - but laughable - lines in a deadpan manner one more time I'm going to be forced to throw the TV out the window.
If you can't just let me watch the sports could you just substitute a spot where Canadian skater Jamie Sale pops around to more restaurants to learn how to cook local dishes? She was adorable learning to make gnocci in Turin.
Hey - I'm an artist - I get "evocative" - but accompanying ceremonies with a giant anvil is W - E - I - R - D . . . even for the olympics.
Likewise, the gymnast in a welder's mask at the opening ceremony was creepy no matter what it was supposed to be symbolic of.
I've got a good idea, though. If you could make all events as fun as short track ice relay, which is like a combination speedway racing and roller-derby on steroids - oh, and on ice - do it
I think we'd all be happier.
For some real fun, you can Watch the womens short track demolition derby-like finals replayed here Or If readers haven't seen a number of the events call up rewind videos here to relive the glory. Just skip the opening ceremonies and avoid the pain.
