Anyone else watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies?

youtu.be/AKtda1wI05Q?si=RlfXDwlNgyxI9zX5
I think is was part of the opening ceremonies, not a US only thing. Minions are French in origin.

Not naming the flag bearers and the descriptions of what was happening is up to your commentators. We watched the BBC - up to the ‘R’ countries, when we went to bed - and we got all the flag bearers, even of small nations with only a few athletes, and a fairly good description of the action.

Astronauts on the ISS have a go at Olympic sports.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c047yyl51m1o

We turned it off after the ménage-a-trois scene. We missed the last supper scene but sounds disgraceful to billions of people. No one would have mocked other religions like that. It’s a strange day that we can’t watch the Olympics opening ceremony with my 8 year old son without seeing such sexual explorations celebrated. I thought women want to be seen for more than a sexual body? This is certainly not the image I want my son thinking women are there for. If there was a parental advisory, I certainly missed it. But this was more than PG.

I told my dd people would be bent out of shape over that part.

I thought the menage a trois was stylish but unnecessary. There were so many little bits of things that the announcers didn't understand that it felt like a drug-fueled Thanksgiving Day parade.

I don't understand why they had to mock the Last Supper of all things. I love drag queens, but did they have to take a swipe at Christians? I know Christians have not been kind to them, but was this really in the spirit of peace and unity? The Christians are apoplectic about the horse and rider, too, ("Death comes on a pale horse," or something) but it was one of my favorite parts.

Once Celine Dion sang, all was forgiven.

Seems I missed more than I thought...

Couldn't have been more varied responses in this house. My daughter loved it, my husband went to bed after an hour, and I was pretty in between. She was rolling at the library scene - I can't say my husband was offended, but thought it was a bit much for a family oriented show. There were pieces everyone liked, but my husband thought it was way too disjointed and that was a big negative for him. I actually really liked the boats and mixing in the parade of nations with different musical numbers as I think the parade of nations gets pretty boring typically (for me anyway). Everyone pretty much loved the Marie Antoinette and hated the Minions - pretty sure that's when my husband bailed.

The "Last Supper" controversy was also varied. I hadn't heard anything as I was trying to mostly watch the show with few spoilers. I DID think of the last supper at the intro shot and even did a quick count and thought to myself the numbers didn't match the actual painting so was misseeing. I wouldn't have been offended either way. My daughter had seen the controversy on social media and didn't see it at all. She just didn't think it looked enough like the last supper to understand why people were outraged.

Oh and we all universally could not understand what was going with the can can. It was TERRIBLE. Could they not hear the music?
Did they find random people off the street to throw pink dresses on - it was truly cringe worthy.

I'm not sure why people care so much about hearing who the flag bearer is, not something that adds much to me - other than the guy from Toga in previous years. Loved, loved, loved to see Celine and she absolutely killed it. So happy for her.

I think France mocked a lot of things about their past in their opening ceremony. There was the Last Supper, the menage a trois in the library, the horse and rider of death, the headless Marie Antoinette, the scenes of the French Revolution, etc. I even wonder if the messed up can can dancing was on purpose?

For your info mammajamma 😊

Thanks for that info.

Another example of History IS important, be familiar!

Me too. Too many little bits of fluff without context, probably a problem with the commentators.
Glad I'm not the only one.
Maybe the NBC announcers should have done a little prep so they could provide context. If Hoda and Savannah hadn't been so busy wetting themselves over Simone Biles on Facetime... There are almost 600 other athletes.

The horse and rider were spectacular. The only thing I want to protest is all those grand pianos along the way in the rain. That's a sin in anyone's book.

Which is something that wouldn’t be known by anyone who is not Christian, and even then, the Apocalyptic texts are more a part of US evangelical Christianity. I’m life-long Catholic, and that didn’t cross my mind as I watched.