China all the way

The photo is only a memento, really, as I don’t think one can really take photos of fireworks that serve them any justice. I don’t really know why I bother, like I’m hoping I’ll get the perfect shot by accident? In any case, I chose yesterday’s photo because that’s one of the mind-blowing highlights of the show, the finale’s golden sparkling giants, hope you can get the idea of the size of those bangs.

We didn’t know what to expect, this was China’s team all the way from Beijing. And it was certainly very different from the two shows we’d seen so far – music was mostly Chinese, and the style of the fireworks was very different. They seemed to have a completely different sense of the music and how to choreograph the fireworks with it creating at times very surreal feeling, and there were times when it seemed they just put the music aside and fired as many fireworks as possible at the same time. Finale was one of those – although it actually worked very well – music was there but the fireworks consisted only of different sort of gold sparkles, first more subtitle ones that were like... ahem, Tholian webs drawing a web in the sky, in the middle they had the most amazing multi-changing bombs that started out like a traditional ones, changed into sparkles and then in the end exploded like... ah, Wraith attack on a shielded city of Atlantis. (I’m a geek, what can I say.) And then it was all-out biggest golden sparks I’ve ever seen, one after another until we could feel the shockwave from the bangs and were almost laying on our backs from the visual, physical and mental shock they caused.

What comes to imagination and especially use of colours though, they were the best. The colours – first I would have said that it was very conservative as they only used one or two colours at a time, but the way they shifted the colours to create an entirely different mood in a blink was just spectacular. Special favourite was a piece with music from Time Machine – only piece of western music, and there was a section that wes destructive and violent, and that was pure red, absolutely stunning.

After the show we got home and the whole place was stinking of smoke and sulfur, and when we went to the balcony the whole West End was covered in smoke (that disappeared pretty fast though).

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