Obviously there was no terrorist disaster. Which is a good thing.
Although ~ as the broadcast dragged into its 4th hour ~ I was almost wishing for some kind of catastrophe to bring an end to the endlessness of it all.
If they could leave off with the overblown self-congratulation (pointless production numbers, relentless lionizing introductions), and get the winners to stop reciting laundry-lists of thank-you's and just say three heartfelt sentences. Honestly, it's not a TEST... you are not going to be scored on whether you remembered every last one of your significant others.