The London Olympics Opening Ceremony replay (in Malaysia) sucks.

Just caught it on local TV just now. Apart from Kenneth Branagh (whom I was not expecting and thus, was blindsided by, in a good way), I was sorely disappointed.

Where was the Mary Poppins vs. Voldemort battle? Where was the Muse performance? I admit that the forging of the Olympic rings was pretty cool, but that was about it. Where the bloody 'ell was Rupert Grint in the Olympic torch-passing scene?

[Though he may have been left out :P]

So I took to the Internet, to see whether everything was a rumor.

It wasn't. But Muse was, sadly.

There were pictures of a giant Voldemort fighting a ton of Mary Poppinses, which would have been completely EPIC. I mean, even Rowan bloody Atkinson had a flippin' segment, and I would have been delighted to no end to see him in the opening ceremony.

I went to YouTube to search for the opening ceremony videos, and thankfully, there were. There was even one of Daniel Craig as James Bond, escorting the Queen to the Games and then bloody parachuting down into the stadium!! I can't really tell whether it's the real Queen or an extremely good look-alike, but I don't think they would fake the Queen.

It is the Olympics, after all.

The full video on YouTube (coveirng the entire ceremony) is four hours long. Four. Bloody. Hours!! And on local TV, this was just cut short to TWO STINKIN' HOURS!

WHY. WHY THE BLOODY CRAP WHY WOULD YOU 'REPLAY' THE TELECAST IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE ENTIRE THING.

WHY.

I can understand cutting out the musical segments. Paul McCartney is hardly relevant to us here. But cutting out Mary Poppins vs. Voldemort? Cutting out Mr Bean?

I don't freaking get it.

Now I have to load a four hour-long video, just to see the entire opening ceremony. Bollocks.

EDIT: They showed a bit of McCartney at the end, in closing the opening ceremony. Apparently there were also yellow submarines. Argh.