Posted on 07/06/2015 10:13:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
My wife and I watched it. kinda liked it. They got some of the basic bBiblical narratives right. Wrote a lot of hollywood into it. like the personality of Peter. It was a minor step in the right direction. I’ve aways felt that if Acts could be done like “The Jesus Film” it could be incredible viewing.
I loved the little bit I saw. Depicting the Apostles EXACTLY as they must have been after Jesus’ Crucifixion, full of doubt and fear they would be next. I think we all tend to glorify them, put them up on a pedestal and forget they were the exact same kind of human being we all are, with the same weaknesses and doubts. Which made that little bit I saw so compelling and original. And worthy of the Scriptures really.
Maybe this is why it was cancelled. The evil at NBC realized they were actually promoting Christianity too successfully. I hope it goes to Amazon Prime though! I’d actually buy it to see more of what I have already.
I like your take on the Apostles.....and I agree totally.
And certainly I don’t trust NBC’s motives - but until all their sister networks refuse it, it’s hard to slam them just yet.
It’s good to know you loved it...I’ll give it another try. Like I said, never write something off after just one partial show.
Also it's hard to take Caiaphas seriously once I realized it was Jeff from Coupling.
Succeeding episodes got more and more fictional and sensational, and less and less relevant to the Scriptural account. The portrayal of the disciples, as well as the 21st century hype-up feminist political correctness on the subsequent importance of various women mentioned in Gospels, became a joke.
I submit the example of the CBS series Joan of Arcadia. It dealt with Christianity and traditional values themes.
Then George Bush got re-elected. CBS President Les Moonves has to attend a number of Upper East Side cocktail parties, where his rich, Liberal friends bash him about the face and head about why did he use his network to whip up all of those knuckle-dragging Christians to go out and vote for Bush, the war-criminal-chimp.
Next thing you know, that show was axed. America likes spirituality? Fine, give ‘em a show about a cute young girl who talks to ghosts.
That is the problem, NBC has to go after an age group, 18-49, which it pretty much has lost to other channels.
That is the problem, NBC has to go after an age group, 18-49, which it pretty much has lost to other channels.
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The 18-49 group is what all the networks go after. They are the demographic with money to spend.
Yet the movie “The Passion of the Christ” became a big hit despite the fact that it was based on both the Gospels and the visions of a female saint. It can be done. It was done because it was done right, combining the Gospels and a good Christian spiritual book of the same name.
I was on vacation last week at a Bible conference and I saw a lot of folks in that age range.
I think it would have been more popular if the script had moved along a little faster over the weeks.
I was on vacation last week at a Bible conference and I saw a lot of folks in that age range.
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That’s great.
Probably not enough, though, to make up for the loss of 6 million viewers.
But a sample and a sure sign of hope.
This may be more Trump scorched earth fallout. Go after anyone affiliated with Trump, too. That's how the Left works - make Trump so toxic that nobody will want to do business with him anymore.
Mark Burnett is the example to the others.
-PJ
This may be more Trump scorched earth fallout.
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If you look at the viewership numbers, you’ll find you have no reason to look elsewhere for why the show has been cancelled.
It’s not about Trump. This time.
“What happened? Script writers threatened protest if they could Not include more random anal sex and gay marriage in the script?”
They made Caligula gay and evil. Not OK.
I enjoyed watching it too.
I also liked “American Odyssey.”
I would accept that if the shows had marginal profits and growing target audiences.
Both examples that you cite skewed low, and old. That is not what it takes to run a TV network. Perhaps the Hallmark Channel, which is on non-stop at my mom’s nursing home (along with Fox news) but not a national broadcast network that needs to generate all their income during three hours a night.
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