Domino Day 2005
The Domino Day 2005 is just over. They broke the broke the record again! More then 4 million stones (precisely 4.155.476) fell. But that is about all good I can say about the 2005 edition of this event. I really liked last years Domino Day. It was fun, it was exciting and easy to follow. This year it more or less just sucked. The creator, Robin Weijers, just wanted to make it even more spectacular then last year, but it ended up being just too much to follow. So many different things went on that even the camera could not follow all the action. Neither did the two commentators. Well, I can only talk about the German ones, but they did a just awefull job. The where babeling nonsense the whole time, missing all important moments. Event when large portions of stones did not fall, they didn’t even realize it. It was just a huge mess with no clear line. Second of all the theme was horrible. God, how can one use Fairytales for that? The theme was pushed so much in the foreground that the actual effects and special tricks where just lost. Last year the cool effects and stunts where the focus of interest, this year they where just a byproduct, while the two commentators got carried away in telling stupid fairytales mixed with dumb jokes.
It is too bad, but as it always happens when you want too much, you just mess it all up. That is exactly what happened this year. Hopefully next year we will have a Domino Day that focuses on the real protagonists, the stones.
Wikipedia: Domino Day
