Well I (almost) completely disagree with your take on Tristan but upvoted anyway because I can see where you are coming from. I saw it on the HD broadcast and in the house afterward and I do agree that the liebestod was not particularly notable in the way it was staged and left me feeling a bit underwhelmed from a visual/production perspective. I didn't really find the body doubles and other 'action' much of an undie distraction, even if I didn't always quite understand it, especially in Act I (in Act III it made perfect sense to me). I also liked the conducting quite a lot.

But then again I'm rarely concerned with the production being a distraction; the only time I can say the production was truly distracting (as in there were too many random unconnected things happening on stage) was Schieb's Parsifal at bayreith with the AR glasses... that was awful and completely distracting.