Via: Tuned In
America was ready for this jelly, but as it turned out the lights in the Superdome weren’t, not entirely. Super Bowl XLVII looked like like it was going to be forgettable and short on drama. The first-half ads were lackluster. (Click here to read time.com’s reviews of every big-game ad; I covered the first quarter.) The game was looking like a blowout. And then, as if ignited by the flame jets set up for Beyoncé’s halftime show, the night got spectacular, weird and interesting. As it turned out, the combination of meticulously planned entertainment and live-TV unpredictability can still make America’s one last communal night unexpected and thrilling. With the Ravens trouncing the 49ers going into the half, it was up to Beyoncé to slap the home audience awake, with the best halftime show in years. Granted, that’s an extremely low bar, but Beyoncé somersaulted over it backwards with an army of CGI clones, propelled by a gusher of fire and trailed by a guitar shooting sparks. The singer was just coming off a National Anthem performance at the inauguration marred by controversy over whether she lipsynched, but it’s hard to imagine anyone watching this performance–commanding and sassy, with a boost from her reunited Destiny’s Child mates–and paying much mind to what she was doing with her lips. After the fire came the darkness. Shortly after the third quarter started, power went out to most of the Superdome, serving as a reset button for the lopsided game and a giant pause button for CBS‘s coverage. Left to fill a half hour of players warming up on field, the network’s commentators seemed lost, vamping over shots from the sidelines while offering little in the way of information about what was, after all, a major news event going on live amid the presence of millions’ of dollars’ worth of media. All in all, it proved the value of watching the game with a second screen, as Twitter proved to be a much better lights-out companion than the CBS crew, as millions of
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Posted: February 4th, 2013
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