Traveler Posted June 4, 2015 Report Posted June 4, 2015 Anybody watching this - What is your impression? What do you like? What do you dislike? Do you think the portrayal is accurate? Quote
sxfritz Posted June 4, 2015 Report Posted June 4, 2015 They kinda lost me early when they went over the top to portray women with strong roles and voices. It isn't that I don't think women should have strong roles and voices, it is that Hollywood made the effort to go against what was cultural then to portray what is cultural now. Overall, the show just couldn't keep my attention past the first night. Quote
Vort Posted June 4, 2015 Report Posted June 4, 2015 They kinda lost me early when they went over the top to portray women with strong roles and voices. It isn't that I don't think women should have strong roles and voices, it is that Hollywood made the effort to go against what was cultural then to portray what is cultural now. Overall, the show just couldn't keep my attention past the first night. I have not seen the show, and probably won't, but I appreciate sxfrtiz's comment. Why must we graft 21st-century mores and values onto 1st-century people? It's like making a movie about tribal sub-Sarahan Africans using only white people. Are we really so shallow that we can't look at people in their own culture and still understand? Obviously, that's what Hollywood thinks, but my opinion is that Hollywood is projecting its own foolishness and personality flaws onto everyone else. Quote
Traveler Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) I also have enjoy the series - mostly to see another point of view - a point of view that is obviously Protestant. It seems to me that a very broad license has been made of history especially to entwine certain thoughts some have of early Christians. It is interesting to me how women are portrayed and that none of the apostles deal directly with marriage. I wonder why Protestants have a view of the apostles as very much uncertain and not knowing what they were doing (perhaps like modern clergy) - yet they believe their writings of New Testament scripture to be "G-d breathed". I was quite surprised how the actor that plays Caligula looks so much like the historical bust of him preserved in Rome. But Caligula and Tiberius were never in Jerusalem visiting Pilate are anyone else during this time. Pilate is called to account for his treatment of a Samaritans rebellion. The series trying to connect dots with early Christians and Jews with Samaritan rebels is a very far reach. It is my view that Pilate was not near as nice or accommodating to the Jews as portrayed. Anyway - some of my thoughts. Edited June 4, 2015 by Traveler Quote
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