Be nice!
I have not yet watched the show -- I'll do it sooner or later, but not yet. I have it recorded, so it'll happen.
I will state that if you wanted a good show about God, the show, so far, was Joan of Arcadia. Other than one of God's manifestations to Joan being rather overtly gay (never stated, but... you got the message), the show did a spectacular job of talking about why God might do some things which don't seem to be in line with His purported omnibenevolence. You unfortunately have to accept that you'll never see the end of the story (cancelled after two seasons, just as they were heating things up). The funny thing is that the show wasn't positioned well. The real people who would gain the most from it were those who doubted, not people already Assured. Those who had problems with His properties vs. His actions (or inaction). It did a great job of getting across why it Just Isn't Quite So Simple As That.
A great show. I cannot recommend it enough.
Thanks for the recommendation, OBH. I'll try to catch 'Joan...' in re-runs or on DVD. To your point about reaching the not-yet-sure (or assured), '...Grace' may be onto something. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt (for awhile) in telling a story that's really all of our stories: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us--all of us, no matter the burden of sin.
I've watched the first ep. Not bad at all, but Joan was a more intelligent approach. This one probably has more mass appeal, which is worth something in a business environment like TV.
I really think you'll like Joan, though.
Saving Grace is about saving someone who is lost. Joan was more about exploring God from the point of someone with no heavy preconceptions, just lots of questions and doubts.
The former is certainly a more dramatic, somewhat less intellectual process, hence my ack of "wider appeal".
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I think it worked best at the subtle moment when she talked her nephew into not thinking it was his fault his mother died, but realized maybe it wasn't hers, either, for similar reasons -- perhaps part of the reason for her own self-destructiveness... followed by the nicely subtle bottle of used spit-chaw rolling against her feet.
Joan was more overt in many ways, since she talked directly to Him -- she knew it was Him she encountered, or a reasonable facsimile... but by this Joan could attack a question directly and then show you the answer more subtly and completely.
Yeah, Saving Grace seems worth watching... but I stull miss Joan.
*sigh*
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Horrible. I speak to God myself and He's telling me "definitely falls into the 90% crap half of the world".
He also says "the only way this show can save itself is if Grace rejects Me completely. Maybe have the singer from Concrete Blonde do a cameo where she proclaims herself to be The One True God.. then she can go on to explain how the hallucinated angels that Grace talks to are actually instruments of Satan. That would probably salvage *something* from this crap-hole of a TV show."
I tend to believe God.
Mr. Plague... I'm hovering between an 80% and 90% crapola rating now...
The last episode, in which the angel started promoting Buddhism and Hinduism (all while distancing himself from the Catholic church) didn't make a lick 'o sense on its face.
AMEN! THIS SHOW DOES NOT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE, DEFINATELY NOT A "CLOSER".
all i can add is that i agree with all those who think the program is usung references to God to give them licence to put the smutty situations on their show therefore appealing to the most base
Even my wife and kids are now turned off. This show is sewage soup.
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