Paralympics Closing

londonbairn · 9 Sep 2012 at 20:25

Anyone else watching?

Have to say I have been very impressed with the Paralympics, hopefully it has blown away many of the taboos associated with "disability".

Will miss the Olympics sorely

Baz · 9 Sep 2012 at 20:57

I was amazed by the Olympics, until I saw a guy with no arms doing the backstroke and winning! Truly amazing and inspirational..

Not sure what the steampunk theme is though....

Skeeter · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:05

Channel 4 undoing all their hard work through the games by ruining the closing ceremony with retarded adverts and idiot commentators.

londonbairn · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:19

And now it's a Coldplay concert...

jpm · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:26

rafster said:
And now it's a Coldplay concert...

Just about to say the same thing, getting boring now.

Skeeter · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:32

Snap.

Surely they got more than 1 band?

Guerrilla · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:33

Bleh Coldplay

Wzd · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:39

Oops, bit of a technical hitch on the "Ball of Energy" :cool:

Skeeter · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:41

This is getting beyond a joke now. Are they seriously going to just play coldplay songs all night?

Bit off a bummer if you went to see it and don't like cold play

Sean_UK · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:54

Had 2x £50.00 Tickets in me basket for this shower of **** the other day

Starting to feel much better about letting the payment screen timer run down.

And yes 15 Coldplay tracks, enjoy.

Skeeter · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:57

Rihanna and Jay Z? Nice and British?

Baz · 9 Sep 2012 at 22:01

Suicide music!! Hate coldplay!

Not cheerful for a party really!

Skeeter · 9 Sep 2012 at 22:20

Sebs speeches have been the best bit of the opening and closing of both games.

feedtheram · 9 Sep 2012 at 22:51

Best ceremony of the lot for me. I like coldplay though.

cu3ed · 9 Sep 2012 at 22:53

Coldplay have to go down as one of the worst live performances after that, a whole god damn night of them.

Wearisome, boring, dull lifeless tone to the whole event.

mithrandir · 10 Sep 2012 at 06:48

Missed the closing ceremony and my recording only recorded a bit of the pre ceremony show and abruptly ended.

Trifid · 10 Sep 2012 at 11:44

mithrandir said:
Missed the closing ceremony and my recording only recorded a bit of the pre ceremony show and abruptly ended.

Once again I gave watching on channel 4 after the first set of adverts. Completely ruined it. You can watch the whole thing on youtube though.

londonbairn · 10 Sep 2012 at 12:47

It was not too bad, but was not sure about the focus on Coldplay and the adverts definately disrupts the flow.

Nothing will beat the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony. The section with "And I will Kiss" is just amazing. Especially if you get the 1080i50 with DTS MA master feed with no stupid commentary.

mmj_uk · 10 Sep 2012 at 16:52

Didn't reckon anything to either of the Paralympic ceremonies, the Olympic opening by Danny Boyle was by far my favourite what with Underworld and Mike Oldfield etc... the other ceremonies have primarily just been glorified concerts.

I enjoyed the Paralympics itself though even though a lot of the events are grossly unfair.

DB_SamX · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:28

I was there and it was fantastic. Killed 2 birds with 1 stone as I love Coldplay too. Everyone joined in the singing and kept singing even when it was over and it was sadly time to leave.

I got goosebumps at times and grinned the rest of the time. Amazing light, sound, performance and experience.