If you happened to miss the opening ceremony you can read a write up on the proceedings here..

The writer of that writeup sums up his opinion of the ceremony thus …

• Scored highly on the insane costumes
• Scored highly on tenuous links with cultural history of nation (can-can, piaf)
• Scored highly on attractive backdrop
• Moderate on the annoying plastic techno music
• Moderate on the absence of overblown narrative (needed more baffling storytelling)
• Lacked weird environmental/one world/children mumbo jumbo
• No Diana Ross moment
  ..and so on.