1 So anyone who sat through last night's two-hour extravaganza thinking "hang on, what does it LOOK like?" just hasn't been to enough Sony hardware reveals.
2 With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.
3 Now let's apply these lofty standards to this early extravaganza of the season: Oblivion has got a pretty good look, a sterile beauty yet beauty nonetheless.