Switching from fighter aircraft to the Nascar auto-racing circuit, with Cruise once more in the lead role, Scott admitted with refreshing candour that it was difficult to generate on-screen excitement from an event that essentially involves cars driving around in circles.
But up there, on the screen, the excitement of travel remained.
While Ms. Chen seemed ready to pop through the screen with excitement, he'd barely shaken himself awake.
News of Leo's win came in, and people clutched their mobile phones and looked at their screens in excitement.
News of Leo's win came in, and people clutched their cell phones and looked at their screens in excitement.
I know I wasn't the only one who sat glued to the television screen experiencing shivers of excitement and tears of happiness as Barack Obama was declared the 44th president-elect of the United States of America.
A further 1,000 hopefuls who missed out on Centre Court tickets came into Queen's Club to watch the final on a big screen, but despite obvious excitement around the grounds, the early atmosphere on court was surprisingly low-key.
Long gone are the years when new CPUs revolutionized the processing capacity of the desktop; today the growth of computing is happening elsewhere, in terms of bandwidth and screen size, and the excitement is shifting away from infrastructure pieces like microprocessors and operating systems to the next layer of media and connectivity.
To add to the excitement: he'll screen the whole thing live, as it's being shot.
When the shell is detonated, the gases mix and become the [nerve agent] VX. "There was no way to do that [realistically] on the screen with any kind of excitement.
"Let's Play -style videos of the game are fascinating because seasoned gamers reduced to amateurs, screaming at the screen not in frustration or excitement, but simPlay -style forward.
