This is terrible
Showing the singers on a stage than showing fireworks.
What a waste
Showing the singers on a stage than showing fireworks.
What a waste
OT: NBC NY Fireworks
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Ha! We have the same thoughts here.. year after year it gets worse and worse.. same for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. I have taken to searching youtube for LIVE streams of people watching the fireworks from different spots and people at the parade.
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Yep, turned it on to watch it, then said the hell with it, I wasn't there to watch these performers.
Lots of complaints in the NY Post comment section
I stopped watching years ago when they had JLo doing the show in Spanish.
I stopped watching New Year's show too because they became awful
With all the 4k recording on YouTube, private stuff is better than the network hash-ups.
I like when they have drones flying though the detonations.
I stopped watching years ago when they had JLo doing the show in Spanish.
I stopped watching New Year's show too because they became awful
With all the 4k recording on YouTube, private stuff is better than the network hash-ups.
I like when they have drones flying though the detonations.
My wife and I turned this on and we were like " what the hell is this"? At least show the fireworks with the singing in the background. Such a wasted production.
It’s supposed to be a celebration of our Independence as a country … not a concert for rooftop crowd and I love a good concert. The inability to see that was quite obvious. Hardly noticed the actual fireworks, nothing choreographed with the music and a terrible job overall by NBC . At least in DC they did a good job.
The amount of private fireworks displays on the beach last night in OC were off the charts. Every block had their own shows going on and with all the town fireworks to see up and down the beach from AC to Sea Isle it was quite amazing. Kudos to the cops here too for letting it happen
Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was horrible.
My wife said, "Why are you turning this on?"
I said, "To watch the fireworks".
She said, "Then why are we watching these singers"
I said, "I have no idea, but apparently the fireworks are a side act and in the background"
I turned it off.
My wife said, "Why are you turning this on?"
I said, "To watch the fireworks".
She said, "Then why are we watching these singers"
I said, "I have no idea, but apparently the fireworks are a side act and in the background"
I turned it off.
Just saw this thread. My wife and I said the same thing. Horrible production. Even when they focused on the fireworks, many were cut off on the sides of the screen. I miss the days of the Boston Pops music in the background (emphasis on background) with a full view of the fireworks display.
The fundamental question is why would anyone watch fireworks on TV?
The show is now geared toward a particular audience and demo. If you are complaining the tv show is no longer for you
MACY'S fireworks TV show was AWFUL
.. editing, angles, and they cut away to commercial at end missing finale ?
WTF ?????
WTF ?????
I’m not a fireworks person, never have been . I’m not sure what people get out of it. It’s a great holiday and we have the flag out and it’s all good. I like good music and good singing and would have no problem with that being the main thing on this holiday.
Some folks enjoyed sitting with their family listening to patriotic music being choreographed to the fireworks. If I remember Macy’s actually at one time broadcast up close to the pyrotechnics. You won’t have to worry though based upon reviews of last evenings mess Macy’s can save themselves millions of dollars by cancelling future shows.
Last night was not geared towards the actual understanding of what July 4th means. As for music content… ehhh not really geared toward ALL Americans … and there is a reason for that .
Watching fireworks on TV sucked? Who coulda ever imagined!?
Boom!
Seriously. Maybe the same people who watch the Yule Log? But at least they show the fireplace for the Yule Log.
Fireworks go way back and many people like them even if mundane.
In NYC yesterday a dude drove his F-150 into a crowd and killed people.
Locally we also had injuries.
Its safer to have fireworks on TV when they are big-time, national events.
There is no reason not to do them well when even anons on YouTube do a better job.
"In 1776, then-future President John Adams sent a letter to his wife, Abigail, outlining how the country's declared independence from England should be celebrated. He wrote that the day should be marked with "pomp & parade, with shews (shows), games, sports, bonfires, bells and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more (sic)."
In NYC yesterday a dude drove his F-150 into a crowd and killed people.
Locally we also had injuries.
Its safer to have fireworks on TV when they are big-time, national events.
There is no reason not to do them well when even anons on YouTube do a better job.
"In 1776, then-future President John Adams sent a letter to his wife, Abigail, outlining how the country's declared independence from England should be celebrated. He wrote that the day should be marked with "pomp & parade, with shews (shows), games, sports, bonfires, bells and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more (sic)."
Fireworks are cool. Watching them on TV is like "traveling" by looking at Google images of a destination.
Both are safer. I sold my mountain bikes an plan to only watch mountain biking on YouTube.
I said the same thing. This year's show was particularly bad. It was like a kid, seeing that the show started, runs in front of the camera and blocks the show. And this year they had a drone capable of broadcasting the show close up from the air.
They really should have two simultaneous broadcasts, one of the raw fireworks with their thunder and one with singers for the people who don't like fireworks.
They really should have two simultaneous broadcasts, one of the raw fireworks with their thunder and one with singers for the people who don't like fireworks.
Because I would bet most would not have a clue as to when, where and what led to the Revolutionary War. Ask them about how many original Colonies were there? About how the flag came to be. Simple questions .
That dude was a NJ resident … from Monmouth County… an addiction counselor according to the news reports.
That was last years show. We can watch this one every 4th
This link is current and in 4K (if chosen on gear wheel) and starts around 50 seconds
I don't think watching largest fireworks in US on tv is worse than anything else not in person.
I can see more about the Grand Canyon with a 4K drone than going live - which I've done.
I watch a football game more focused at home than in the stadium.
Because people may go and watch other fireworks on other days (most towns by me don't do them on the 4th) and then spend the 4th at home.
That's just crazy talk, lol. Fireworks on TV have none of the visceral impact of being there and seeing fireworks filling the whole sky above you and feeling those incredible booms going right through your body.
Macy's fireworks have more of interest than the average baseball game (which I find more boring in person). At least on TV or even radio I can follow the pitch count without being distracted by birds and planes. Indeed, baseball ratings are low and the league makes money from people spending at the stadium while walking around
They could have done so much better if they had just gotten a Pink Floyd cover band.