Dear Anongirl,

we must not see the pregnant lady as a picture only. It was a part of the whole scenes and if we see carefully the show then the message is great and it's clear.

I am not an expert on arts, but I just have a common sense and I am Greek, born and living in Greece.
To my opinion (and I heard it later and from the chief artist manager of the ceremony) the show was saying that "Love, Eros is the moving power of history and life". The show was a hymn to LOVE.

- Remember when all the Greek history, form thousands years BC untill recent days, was passing.... EROS the God of LOVE was flying over everything.... The artist wanted to say that Eros, Love, Passion moves the history... and this nation (Greeks) has this history because it's an erotic, a passionate nation.

- Remember the show with the big Greek white statue. This statue is a real small size statue in our museums. It was found in Kiklades islands and belongs to the GEOMETRIC period of our history, 1000 years BC and before, I think. Remember, that lasers were making geometric shapes on this big white statue, meaning the Geometric period it belongs to. When the big statue was breaking in smaller parts, new statues of newer historical periods were presented. The smaller parts and statues were flying over the sea... and finally they moved lower.... and touched the water... staying there. At this moment you could see many WHITE stones-shapes on the water... they were symbolising OUR ISLANDS, and EROS the God of LOVE was flying over them. Then, remember the couple of lovers playing on the beach (very typical Greek summer picture), teasing each other with the sea water, kissing each other.... Eros was there flying over them... and after this the lights on the lovers get darker... Eros moves in a different direction, moves lower where a girl was and touches her.... after that the girl is PREGNANT.... starts walking... and her baby start glowing... IT WAS THE NEW LIFE THAT EROS BROUGHT.... the moments the baby was glowing.... lasers were making a huge DNA, the biological base of LIFE, that ALL WE are made of (a message that all we are the same, we are equal, we are made of the same thing)...

Usually in these Olympic opening ceremonies, other countries use some hundrends of people moving and making various shapes, words etc... To my opinion this shows luck of fantasy, and it's also FASISTIC because they use the HUMAN BEING as a point (a pixel) of the total picture. In our ceremony, this rubish tecknik was NOWHERE used. On the contrary we tried to RISE the Human Being. Every human being in our show had FACE, was not a "point".

I was amazed watching this show. It had high level art, It had tenderness, it had love and erotism, it had messages to the world that we are equal, we are the same, it had a respect to life and to the human being, it was an anti-war, a humanist show. It was showing THE GREEK SOUL to the world.

I think in a more general view, it was a EUROPEAN art. It was art that has NOTHING to do with .... Hollywood level bullshit art, and maybe the American people could not understand a lot.....
After the ceremony, Greek reporters asked US athlets what was their opinion about the ceremony. They answered: "Oh yes, the ...FIREWORKS were great."