Wow. Well, just IMHO obviously... absolutely, stunningly, breathtakingly amazing. What a show! Too many highlights really but really stunned by the interpretation of the invention of movable type ~ a few hundred years before Guttenburg, all the Confucian stuff, 2,008 bods in a choreographed demo of tai chi, flying bodies and the final lighting of the torch! Nothing less from the director of Hero and House of the Flying Daggers
That many countries filing in became tedious but some amusing anecdotes and trivia; if there's any country that can do fireworks it's the Chinese!
How do we follow that? We don't; we can't; it'll be a different world in four years time and hopefully we'll produce something credible, applaudable and appropriate
Meanwhile, out with the starting gun