But… how can they do so much We Will Rock You with out segueing into We Are The Champions… when this is all about champions? All the Olympians are champions!
I think George Michael was the only one who got two songs.
Maybe that was the much-desired (by some) reference to Dr. Who 
Yay! “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” and I thought Brian May looked / played fine.
Very interesting de-lighting
Brian
(and so is my wife)
We’ll be back with The Who in an hour, but first, a sitcom we’re trying to force you to watch.
I was listening but didn’t see it. What happened?
Petal assemblage partly opens with a phoenix image hovering over the fire, itself partly aflame. Then prima ballerina descends in her own phoenix device and joins a mohawked National Ballet in a specially commissioned dance. Then the flame assemblage opens completely flat and the flames die sort of spirally.
NBC stops the show at 11pm EDT for an episode of some show they’re plugging. If they could have started their broadcast at 8 sharp instead of 8:20 they may have been able to wrap up by 11.:rolleyes:
Didn’t Emile Sande sing two numbers? Did NBC cut out both of them? I gave up on NBC’s coverage halfway though. Once they cut out Kate and Ray Davies, they were dead to me. I know they cut Sande’s first song, but I couldn’t say for the second. Anyone know?
They cut out her number from the Opening Ceremony too. NBC really doesn’t like her.
I thought Sasha Baron Cohen was tapped for that? Looking forward to seeing Brand sing it; here in the US, we’re just recovering from the Spice Girls Reunion. >.< HURRY up MUSE!!
Well, it’s almost midnight on the East coast and they’re still showing the ceremony.
Ok, I’m going to watch the rest, but they could have stopped with Eric Idle and I’d have been quite happy. 
You’re right, I was mistaken.
It’s ok, it wasn’t a bad thought; I could have seen it 
Fuck you NBC. They also interrupted the closing ceremony of the previous Olympics to show an episode of that quickly-cancelled Jerry Seinfeld marriage counseling show. Television executives are the worst bags of scum on the planet. They are trying to get more mouth breathers to watch their crappy shows so they can charge higher dollars for advertising so they can afford better looking whores. They don’t give a crap about providing a good viewing experience to you.
Maybe they should have started it earlier, but I’m not seeing any of this Seinfeld show people are talking about. The ceremonies are ending at 10:00 PST; on a Sunday night, that’s about as late as things can go. Certainly nobody is going to stay up to watch anything else afterwards; it’s 1 a.m. on the EC already. Did this happen earlier in the evening and I just missed it or something?
Dude, the NBC broadcast was taped delayed by several hours. Check out the timestamps on the early posts in the thread - those are watching live. If NBC cut the closing ceremony short to go to regular programming, it was specifically to get the Olympic audience to watch their crappy show.
I know, I was watching the NBC one. It wasn’t cut SHORT, though stuff was obviously left out. Just…changed the channel when it was over, so don’t know what crappy show anyone on the east coast is going to stay up until 2 on a Sunday to watch. O.o
I felt uncomfortable feeling ‘proud’ of the Opening and, on reflection, perhaps the sense of pride was more in what was portrayed, but this Closing Ceremony … the musical heritage is so rich and so diverse, and this is clumsy and disjointed … nope, a wasted opportunity, I’m afraid.
Could have been so much more.
Yes. Sadly, The Who will never have Keith Moon and John Entwistle again. If only there was some other band with a surviving bassist and drummer that could have helped out.
Not my cup of tea at all. I don’t like pop music.
Ooops, I said it too. I don’t know where my head was. I knew it was Sasha Baron Cohen!
I do like Russell Brand though. I like him as an actor and I liked his bit in the Closing Ceremony.