^ When we watched the third episode (last night) my wife said, "Wow! He does look like Obama!"

Only saw the 3rd episode. Where were there instances of violence that isn't spelled out?

 

In that episode the Slaughter of the Innocents is portrayed and is true to the Matthew Chapter 2 saga.

 

The strangling of Herod's son is true to history. Actually he had another son drowned in a pool by assasins and also had his favorite wife Mariamne and her mother executed because he was paranoid of a plot vs. him.

 

John the Baptist's head was cut off.

 

The Bible has a LOT of violence in the narrative. No way around that.

 

One thing that got me was we had to have the Nativity cresche represented. The Magi and the Shepherds have to show up together on the birth night when most scholars agree that the Magi came later in Jesus' childhood.

 

Liked the director's work on the temptations. As to the "Obama" thing, if no one had posted it already and planted the idea in my head, I would never have noticed.

Where were there instances of violence that isn't spelled out?

 

In episode #1, when leaving Sodom & Gomorrah, the angels who rescued Lot fought their way out of the city with swords.

 

A lot of fighting/killing in the scene when the two spies are rescued by Rahab.

 

And I was thinking there was something involving Daniel/the Babylonians that I don't recall seeing in Scripture.

 

For me, I'm aware that the Bible contains a lot of violence--sometimes very graphic, brutal violence. It just seems like the show's creators are really gravitating toward that.

In episode #1, when leaving Sodom & Gomorrah, the angels who rescued Lot fought their way out of the city with swords.

 

A lot of fighting/killing in the scene when the two spies are rescued by Rahab.

 

And I was thinking there was something involving Daniel/the Babylonians that I don't recall seeing in Scripture.

 

For me, I'm aware that the Bible contains a lot of violence--sometimes very graphic, brutal violence. It just seems like the show's creators are really gravitating toward that.

 

Did they show the destruction of Jericho and the bloodbath that ensued there?

 

As to the first one, that's unusual. Thought the towns people were blinded if memory serves.

 

Thanks for the response. :thumb:

Did they show the destruction of Jericho and the bloodbath that ensued there?

 

As to the first one, that's unusual. Thought the towns people were blinded if memory serves.

 

Thanks for the response. :thumb:

 

They showed a lot of fighting with Jericho & it was violent on the screen. Maybe not bloodbath proportions, but definitely violent.

 

On Sodom & Gomorrah, they showed them being blinded in addition to fighting their way out. I've always understood the blindness to be the means of escape.

 

The reverse of this is that I don't think they showed enough violence with Samson. While I know it would be difficult to show him killing a thousand people with the donkey's jawbone (:lol2:), I think he only took out five or six. I also thought they gave Samson a very positive treatment overall & I'm not sure he was really like that. They portrayed him as being very sensitive to God's leading & much more humble than I think he really was. I've always read Samson to be brash, cocky, arrogant & very much marching to the beat of his own drummer.

 

Nothing on Joseph & nothing on Esther have been my two major disappointments. But I also realize they're limited in terms of time. I really think they could have turned this into a full season of 13-16 episodes. The series has been very popular in terms of ratings.

They showed a lot of fighting with Jericho & it was violent on the screen. Maybe not bloodbath proportions, but definitely violent.

 

On Sodom & Gomorrah, they showed them being blinded in addition to fighting their way out. I've always understood the blindness to be the means of escape.

 

The reverse of this is that I don't think they showed enough violence with Samson. While I know it would be difficult to show him killing a thousand people with the donkey's jawbone (:lol2:), I think he only took out five or six. I also thought they gave Samson a very positive treatment overall & I'm not sure he was really like that. They portrayed him as being very sensitive to God's leading & much more humble than I think he really was. I've always read Samson to be brash, cocky, arrogant & very much marching to the beat of his own drummer.

 

Nothing on Joseph & nothing on Esther have been my two major disappointments. But I also realize they're limited in terms of time. I really think they could have turned this into a full season of 13-16 episodes. The series has been very popular in terms of ratings.

 

 

I agree on Esther. Also, I would suggest Ruth. It would bring up the female viewer ratings! But, probably not "violent" enough!

They showed a lot of fighting with Jericho & it was violent on the screen. Maybe not bloodbath proportions, but definitely violent.

 

On Sodom & Gomorrah, they showed them being blinded in addition to fighting their way out. I've always understood the blindness to be the means of escape.

 

The reverse of this is that I don't think they showed enough violence with Samson. While I know it would be difficult to show him killing a thousand people with the donkey's jawbone (:lol2:), I think he only took out five or six. I also thought they gave Samson a very positive treatment overall & I'm not sure he was really like that. They portrayed him as being very sensitive to God's leading & much more humble than I think he really was. I've always read Samson to be brash, cocky, arrogant & very much marching to the beat of his own drummer.

 

Nothing on Joseph & nothing on Esther have been my two major disappointments. But I also realize they're limited in terms of time. I really think they could have turned this into a full season of 13-16 episodes. The series has been very popular in terms of ratings.

 

I read where the writers had a story, a big one, on Joseph but it was not filmed because of time constraints and budget issues.

I agree on Esther. Also, I would suggest Ruth. It would bring up the female viewer ratings! But, probably not "violent" enough!

 

Not violent enough but certainly "sexual inneuendo" enough. Or Tamar from Genesis would have been another one to tell.

I read where the writers had a story, a big one, on Joseph but it was not filmed because of time constraints and budget issues.

 

I heard the same.

 

But I'm biased toward Joseph. My favorite Biblical character.

Not violent enough but certainly "sexual inneuendo" enough. Or Tamar from Genesis would have been another one to tell.

 

Or Jael from Judges. :lol2:

Or Jael from Judges. :lol2:

 

Cure for a headache. :lol2:

Cure for a headache. :lol2:

 

Bet her husband slept with one eye open from that day forward. :lol2:

Not violent enough but certainly "sexual inneuendo" enough. Or Tamar from Genesis would have been another one to tell.

 

Maybe so, but I was thinking of how Ruth showed incredible humility and sacrifice to follow her mother-in-law, Naomi, after Naomi's husband and her husband both died. She could have gone back to her people (she was not originally from Israel and did not follow God). But in her pledge to Naomi, she agrees to follow Naomi's God and make sure she was OK. She eventually meets and married Boaz and becomes part of the link in the heritage of David to Jesus. Good example, but probably "too boring" for the series.

Actually the "romance" part of the story is the interesting part for a movie script. Re-read how she "makes an impression" on Boaz on the threshing floor and read plainly Naomi's part of "match maker" for them.

 

The best part of Ruth's story is that out of this intriguing tale of tragedy and restart comes a son named Obed who has a boy named Jesse and he has a boy named . . . David.

Thoughts from episode 4:

 

- Not sure I like how they handled the beheading of John the Baptist (not true to what is in Mark 6).

- Barabbas seemed to have a bigger role than expected.

- Saw Martha and Lazarus, but not Martha's sister, Mary.

- I'm pleased with how they showed some of the miracles of Jesus (healings, feeding the 5000, walking on the water, etc.)

- I know they skip over a lot for time, but they are fitting a lot of Jesus stories in a short period of time.

- I thought I would be disappointed with the way they would handle the Last Supper, but I ended up being VERY pleased...what a great presentation of the first Eucharist!

- Do the same Pharisees follow Jesus everywhere? On the other hand, Caiaphas was very believable.

- Finally, there was that "Obama" guy again when Judas was betraying Jesus!:troll: