It's getting better. It looks like they are trying to solve one problem I've been having with it, which is that the cast of main characters was too small. Also, McCauley Culkin as the uncle's son? Brilliant physical match.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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megan walker - Apr 06, 2009 7:57:25 am PDT #7766 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nora Deirdre - Apr 06, 2009 8:32:34 am PDT #7767 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I thought the smoke changed direction, btw, and told the Reverend to turn left instead of right.
Ooh, interesting. That definitely clicks with the whole changing car directional signal thing.
Stephanie - Apr 06, 2009 9:13:27 am PDT #7768 of 30001
Trust my rage
Yeah, I had the same reading on the smoke.
Liese S. - Apr 06, 2009 12:24:10 pm PDT #7769 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Gigantic man-ho, and brilliant enough poet to write the Psalms?
Right? Right! The original David was a complex and deeply flawed man. Would have been interesting to see that side carried out.
I still like the shifting loyalties, because that's part of the fun of monarchy, right?
There was a lot of stupid in that episode, though I feel it was deliberate stupid.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 12:28:35 pm PDT #7770 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't get the Zoe-vibe off of Thomasina. Mainly because I cannot get a Mal vibe off of the King. Zoe wouldn't have been able to deal.
sumi - Apr 06, 2009 12:35:14 pm PDT #7771 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I don't get a Zoe-vibe from Thomasina either. She and the King are not colleagues and friends the way Zoe and Mal are.
Jon B. - Apr 06, 2009 12:39:30 pm PDT #7772 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The original David was a complex and deeply flawed man. Would have been interesting to see that side carried out.
I'm a bit rusty on my bible, but how flawed was David this early in his story? I'm thinking that more complexity will come later.
Liese S. - Apr 06, 2009 1:09:59 pm PDT #7773 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Well, that's a good point. I'm guessing at this point we're somewhere around 1st Samuel 18 or so. So David's not all that removed from being a shepherd. Which reminds me, did they explicitly date this brother? 'Cause David was the youngest, but he wasn't really giving off a kid brother vibe in that relationship to me.
But we should have already had (Biblical spoilers) the beginnings of Saul's madness and David playing to soothe him. We have David as a musician, but not playing for Saul. And we definitely should have had Jonathan & David's close friendship, with possible commitment ceremony by now.
Furthermore, Biblical Jonathan really was a military man, who fought side by side with his dad by now. So it's odd that they've decided to go with this characterization.
I looked it up; I didn't have all this memorized, but I do find it interesting.
Typo Boy - Apr 06, 2009 1:12:33 pm PDT #7774 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A lot of choices seem to be less interesting than going with something closer to the original. To take a minor point: "Saul, Saul has slain his thousands, but David, David his tens of thousands" changes to a Queen-comment on bidding for a seat...
Juliebird - Apr 06, 2009 4:03:55 pm PDT #7775 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I wouldn't go so far as to map the Kings characters onto those of Firefly's and declare it a neat fit, it was just a fleeting handful of moments from Thomasina, last week and this, and her calling Silas on his shit. But the characters are uniquely their own, and Thomasina's relief after getting promoted was very un-Zoe-like and ended the vibe for me.