Published on 12, July, 2020
I really look forward to the Eurovision each year.
This year the UK are holding it, in Liverpool, so excited.
Waited for a whole year for the show and:
But! the visuals are all over the place and bright lights are horrible! it is way to OTT (over the top).
It took away from the songs being performed and has really changed the heart of the contest.
It is as if the UK are trying to show off, and say, hey! look what we can do, we can put on a show with loads of visuals that are way too much.
Must have cost a fortune too.
if they kept is simpler it would have been better.
I had to sadly turn it off, it is horrible. the fast movements etc. I hated it.
So disappointed.
BBC lost the plot or whoever deals with deciding to use those visual affects.
I do not have epilepsy, sadly I think that a lot who do will be affected by it.
I didn’t majorly get affected by it, though I do have light sensitivity and found yesterdays extreme sunlight levels uncomfortable even with sunglasses on a lot. But there were moments during the programme where I considered putting my shades on and in particular that Finnish entry (man in a box with atomic bomb lighting intensity flashing on and off) made me look away. I think part of what helped my retinas cope was that there was some joke text exchanging going on with my sister during the show and I had my eyes off the screen entirely for about 40% of it I’d say. But I do agree with Astrid, although the staging was stunningly impressive it was arguably such an assault on the senses as to be too much. I think that giant illuminated floor filmed from above needed less intense colouring at times!