Posted on 03/10/2013 8:00:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m DVRing the series to watch later (although I’ll stop if it gets PC).
Last night I watched a bit of the first episode. Was it my imagination, or did Noah have a Scottish accent?
RE: Was it my imagination, or did Noah have a Scottish accent?
OK, I give up, what kind of accent should he have?
I love how they end each episode with the family sitting around the dinner table, heads bowed in prayer.
I guess they forgot NCIS which has 20+million a week.
Not Scottish...? Call me crazy, but I don’t think Noah was born and raised in the heathered Highlands.
We watched, and the discussion with friends over the past week, who also watched too, has been amusing.
Some of our observations:
We had no idea there were Ninja Angels
Moses sometimes had the look of a crazed cult leader, not the meekest man on the earth.
They should have cast a more beautiful woman as Sarah, because she was kidnapped twice for her beauty, and this actress who played the part just wasn’t pretty enough.
What happened to those two servants Abraham took with him when he went to sacrifice Isaac, and we had no idea that Mt. Moriah was close enough that Sarah could run to it from their camp.
Cool part...Pharoah being in the water when it turned to blood.
All in all, it was enjoyable, we just were having fun with the “hollywood version” of the stories.
RE: Call me crazy, but I don’t think Noah was born and raised in the heathered Highlands.
I don’t think Noah spoke English either.
Well, of course you’re correct. But the Sean Connery accent could have been toned down a bit...it was jarring, IMO.
I haven’t watched past the part where the divine visitors came to Abraham’s camp, but I did see the Asian Ninja angel, LOL. Diversity must have been a big trend even then. :)
I did like the forbidding beauty of the ark plunging around in the floodwaters, but I doubt it leaked as badly as shown. Noah covered that thing with pitch, and the whole enterprise was made with the grace of God.
T.V.!What is t.v.The only time I watch tv is when I’m watching Foxnews or the military channel.The rest of the time I’m watching dvd’s.
I very seldom watch the commercial networks any more.
Exactly,and I don't remember Scriptures mentioning Noah's grandchildren. We watched part of it, but hubby kept complaining about the parts that were just wrong, so we stopped watching. I guess it's probably a good tool of evangelism for the un-churched.
And don’t forget about the PC angels, one being a chinese ninja, and the other being a black angel. Samson is also black. But the ninja angel was the strangest.
Yes, I agree. I’m being critical, I know, but I can’t lose sight of the fact that a major cable network airing a miniseries about the Bible is a VERY good thing.
I hope and pray Jesus was portrayed at least fairly well...
Well we can safely say Not Scottish being they were a little late to the party. (IIRC the Old Testament was written just a few years before people started speaking with a Gaelic dialect in the British Isles)
The angel’s fighting moves were very roman gladiator types and if anything he was more of a samurai not a ninja...
I was complaining about it to my wife as well, and we stopped watching after the first episode. My beef with it was simply this ... God is written out of most scenes. They reduced the Bible from the word of God to a preposterous story with bad casting and bad acting. I felt this would do serious damage to evangelizing to young people because after watching this, they would simply say ... what’s the big deal.
No real creation story (other than Noah telling it)
The ark leaked
Most of God talking to people was inaudible
Nothing about Abram and Melchizedek.
Sarah was not a looker - nothing about being kidnapped 2x.
In this show, Sarah was about 50-55 when she gave Hagar to Abram, still about 50-55 when she had Issac.
The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were not homosexuals, Lot did not offer his daughters.
The ninja angels were just silly.
Ishmael looked to be about 10 when he and Hagar kicked out
Nothing about Issac’s life
No Jacob at all
No 12 tribes, Joseph, Coat, Egypt, saving the people from famine, brothers ending up in Egypt.
Each plague got less than a second of air time.
The future pharaoh figured out Moses killed the guard
Aaron did not speak for Moses
Did not turn the staff to a snake
Pharaoh did not call for the plague that lead to the death of his own son.
Joshua was Moses right hand man before they left Egypt. But no Caleb.
No cloud by day, pillar of fire by night
They did not even digitally image people to show the size of the nation of Israel that left Egypt. You would think it was less than 1000 people.
God apparently could give them dry ground to walk on crossing the Red Sea, but could not keep it from raining cats and dogs and being dark.
And what did you think of last night’s part 2? How about black Samson? And I am still waiting for the big wall of fire that prevented pharoah’s army from getting to Moses and his people, and allowing them to get across the red sea.
No historical record whatsover saying Samson was from Africa.
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