I don't know why it is a big deal for some people about Chinese using special effects in the opening ceremony. If they want to use some help from the computer to enhance the visuals for TV audience, I think it is perfectly okay.  After all, it's once in a life-time opportunity for China, and they would have done anything that they could. I think it's innovative -- nobody had thought they could use CGI on the live performance ever. I give credit to those Chinese TV crew, they did one helluva great job synchronizing those CGI effects on the live performance. For the most part, the CGI effects they used were pretty legitimate. For example: They used one to show the high angle shot of the stadium while the fireworks were in progress, which was virtually impossible to capture live. The fireworks were real, and 2008 people doing Tai-Chi, people playing drums etc were all real and they were enough for me to go "Holy F!!!".

Same with that Chinese girl lip-syncing -- she must be replaced by someone prettier if she is not eye candy, and people like watching eye candies on their television set.

About those underage gymnasts, and they still kicked ass? another "Holy F!!!".

I don't give a f*** about what China is and what China does. It's not even about China. China is just hosting it. Just like those website hosting companies. Those hosts might throw in some cheezy commercials, or might f*** up their customers, but at the end, it's all about websites, not the f***in' hosts. Beijing Olympics is not about China, it's about spirit -- a true spirit of those amateur athletes gathering under the same roof competing with each other. Celebrate the spirit.

WTF man, China ain't hosting another Olympics for at least another 12 years anyway. Don't make it political.

(F*** Sajha censorship, this is another America, this is worst than China!)