Thoughts, rare as they are.
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catsidheAs I was watching The Second Coming last night. The one with Chris Eccleston as the Son of God.
As I watched, in between dissecting the hideous mess that is Perl::HTML and reading Hat Full of Sky, I found myself thinking "I wonder what they thought of this in the States?"
Then, as the climax happened (one which I did not see coming, by the way, and it was very pleasantly surprising to be surprised by TV), I came to a conclusion. They haven't seen this in the States. This would never be allowed to air.
I stand to be corrected. Indeed, I hope to be corrected, as the denoumont was one that demanded Deep Thinking about God and his place in our lives, even for atheists. But my cynical (and therefore, usually correct) view is that it is precisely the shock and stress of such thought which would have it struck from the air. We can't have religion-riots, now, can we? Outraged fundie evangelicals and Catholics and Baptists finding common cause and burning the Godless PBS to the ground? We can't risk offendng our Sponsors...
The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is that this program could have been shown in the US. Let's not even talk about the likelyhood of it having been made there.
I also think that it would not have been shown on the commercial channels here, and it would have been a farce and a travesty if it had. Such thoughts on the place of God in the universe do not fit well with 'Zoom zoom'.
On another tack, I saw an ad on a tram this morning, but the background to the text caused me to misread it slightly.
I read it as 'SPORTSCRÆFT', and it looked somehow more right that way.
Britene igland is egte hund mile lang ond twa brad, ond on þas igland fif geþeode...
As I watched, in between dissecting the hideous mess that is Perl::HTML and reading Hat Full of Sky, I found myself thinking "I wonder what they thought of this in the States?"
Then, as the climax happened (one which I did not see coming, by the way, and it was very pleasantly surprising to be surprised by TV), I came to a conclusion. They haven't seen this in the States. This would never be allowed to air.
I stand to be corrected. Indeed, I hope to be corrected, as the denoumont was one that demanded Deep Thinking about God and his place in our lives, even for atheists. But my cynical (and therefore, usually correct) view is that it is precisely the shock and stress of such thought which would have it struck from the air. We can't have religion-riots, now, can we? Outraged fundie evangelicals and Catholics and Baptists finding common cause and burning the Godless PBS to the ground? We can't risk offendng our Sponsors...
The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is that this program could have been shown in the US. Let's not even talk about the likelyhood of it having been made there.
I also think that it would not have been shown on the commercial channels here, and it would have been a farce and a travesty if it had. Such thoughts on the place of God in the universe do not fit well with 'Zoom zoom'.
On another tack, I saw an ad on a tram this morning, but the background to the text caused me to misread it slightly.
I read it as 'SPORTSCRÆFT', and it looked somehow more right that way.
Britene igland is egte hund mile lang ond twa brad, ond on þas igland fif geþeode...
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Date: 2005-05-02 05:43 am (UTC)Hrm. My gripe with was really about how stupid the whole idea is in the end.
First of, oh, so God dies if he kills himself in human form then. He has to die through some external means like poison apparently.
Second off he can do great deeds like change night into day for no good reason other than show his power, but he has difficulty doing ANYTHING else to help humanity.
Third, only getting 70 odd years if lucky and having huge portions of humanity who could have done good or otherwise enjoyed life will now actually DIE horrible deaths when they die and be consigned to nothing, huh? What about the hundreds of thousands of people who died simply because they refused to blaspheme against their own personal beliefs? What about anyone who was already in heaven? What about the prophets before Jesus? What, everyone in the afterlife was suddenly consigned to nothingness?
Being able to explore all of creation for half of eternity in the afterlife sounds like a lot more fun than dying at birth. Or being rotted away by leprosy. Or having one's family tortured and killed by some sadistic fuck. Et al.
Also makes the whole Son of God thing rather weird - because apparently he IS God, not the SON of God. This whole trinity thing in Christianity is totally screwed.
Anyway, it was still fun to watch and better than most shows along such lines I've seen.