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 Posted: Sat Jul 28th, 2012 12:12
Eric



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 Danny Boyle was right not to try to 'match' the military precision of Beijing. That isn't the UK way. The cauldron was a masterpiece! Some of the effects were superb but may have been confusing to foreign viewers with little prior exposure to UK life. On the whole we thought it was very good and very UK.

But the use of an old squawking 'hasbeen' as the show finale, was just ....embarrassing.

I don't know if anyone noticed that announcements were all done in French FIRST, and then in English. A nice touch.

Last edited on Sat Jul 28th, 2012 12:14 by Eric



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