Thoughts, rare as they are.
May. 2nd, 2005 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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: 2005-05-01 06:05 pm (UTC)I dunno, I don't see myself as a rather religious guy, but the whole 'we're better off without a God' thing at the end was...I dunno, well I felt rubbed the wrong way. Mission accomplished, I guess.
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Date: 2005-05-01 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-02 05:00 am (UTC)Really, though, the ending wasn't that unexpected I felt. The further the movie went along, and considering the budget obvious so far, I kinda figured the options for winding it up were limited. Either give it a totally pathetic ending where they don't tell you what happens, or, well, something along the lines of what did happen.
Still, it's the best ending to such a film I've seen about :)
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Date: 2005-05-02 05:51 pm (UTC)