Olympics 2008

[Ghoulish Delight]

It was pretty standard fare for closing ceremonies I thought. They never match the opening. Among other things, as mentioned during the broadcast, the stadium is in use until a few hours before the closing ceremony starts, so they simply don't have time to put on a show that's even a fraction of the scale of the opening. So they tend to revert back to standard marching band and half time show theatrics. I thought there were some cool elements, but overall it dragged and was pretty unspectacular.

What's really of note is the fact that during the London segment, when the little girl came out of the bus and took the soccer ball from the other little girl, there were actually 2 other girls who had won a contest but they were deemed too ugly so the real winners were actually back stage exchanging a real soccer ball while the more acceptable looking girls exchanged a fake one for cameras.