2010 olympics opening ceremony

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2010 olympics opening ceremony

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NBC wasted 2 hours of my life, looked cheap compared to beijing, and cauldron fail. all in all, i was bored by all this last night
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yeah I watched Dexter Season One last night and skipped the Olympics... just not interesting this year.
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Winter games opening ceremony always blow.
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I liked the opening but I heard from my friend that the ending failed. What happened?
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It wasn't the worst opening I've seen, but when you can tell even Wayne Gretzky thinks it's lame(besides looking cold) then you know it didn't go over well. honestly, I didn't see the point in having to light 2 cauldrons, but after the first one failed I saw the point :lol:
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i watched the first half. the only thing cool that i saw was the whale thing. that was pretty neat.
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geokilla wrote:I liked the opening but I heard from my friend that the ending failed. What happened?
There was a malfunctions with the cauldron.
As you can see the left leg of the cauldron did not rise.
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The problem, it has been revealed, was a trap door in the floor of the stadium wouldn't open properly, trapping one of the four pillars designed to form a giant cauldron hosting the Olympic flame.

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I guess I won't watch it online then...I didn't see the ceremony that night and didn't know if it would be worth watching.
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The closing ceremony was equally as bad (or good depending on your opinion) as the opening ceremony. Bah.
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