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Originally Posted by Stumped
Much as was prophesised, the opening ceremony proved to be a mish mash of undecipherable pop related gibberish that the rest of the world would struggle to recognise. Indeed, I was embarrassed at the crass way that our modern youth displayed themselves as being 'hooked' on technology, which just served to demonstrate how far removed they are from the reality of what is going on around them.
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I think these two quotes from a review of press comments on the BBC website sum up my feelings about other sections of the show and I also totally agree with what you said above.
Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley,
The Times:
"Presumably he hoped to capture the ethos of the whole host nation. But it is hard to feel romantic, or even sentimental, about anything as amorphous as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And it is near impossible to identify characteristics that are common to the Cotswolds and the Gorbals, the Falls Road and the Brecon Beacons without taking refuge in references to 'this happy breed' — a bogus description of the English written by Shakespeare before the kingdoms were united."
Andrew Gilligan,
The Telegraph
"The NHS segment in particular underlined how surprisingly parochial this ceremony was. The idea of the Health Service as a beacon for the world is, bluntly, a national self-delusion."