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JMHO.
1 posted on 01/06/2006 9:15:15 PM PST by Lokibob
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"The Book of Daniel" NOT "The Book of David". OOPS


2 posted on 01/06/2006 9:22:25 PM PST by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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and I found it tedious and vapid.

Glad to hear it. That's the kind of thing that will sink the show, which badly needs sinking.

Everyone should write the sponsors and tell them the show is tedius and vapid along with being in terrible taste. That should do it!

3 posted on 01/06/2006 9:28:10 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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Hub heard about it on the radio on the way home and we thought we would just see what it was about. It took us about 3 minutes.............an attempt to slam Christians everywhere. An underlying slam on Christianity and it's sickening!


6 posted on 01/06/2006 9:47:20 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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Thanks for the thread.

Here are few thoughts.

Frankly I hate it when other's decide I cannot watch a program. Particularly when they get to see it, to review it, to slam or support it and I the viewer lose my "choice" with the "clicker" to decide if I want to vest my time in the show.

As I watched it, there were several issues that may fall to the norm of many families out there. However, it stops there. They way more information then I felt was needed for the viewer in what will be a 60 minute show. Most I am sure was to inflame the sensibilities.

It is fiction. Pure and simple. Folks who will watch it, will perhaps watch it to forget their only troubles. Perhaps they will watch it, thinking, by the grace of God, that could be my family.

In the end, it is the viewer's choice to decide if they want to watch it, boycott the advertiser's. We have options out there, but, to have the power's that be decide if this is a program worthy of us watching is just well unfair. I also doubt that it will return for another season but I have been shocked in past years what get's canned and what returns.

Finally, I am one who loves the shows of the past. As another poster shared, The Walton's, Little House, Medicine Woman, shows that you could watch as a family. As of late the only shows I find myself making sure I watch, 7th Heaven, which has had a terrific run and this will be it's final year. The WB has actually put out several good shows. Another show, "Wildfire" which just aired it's second season is another fun show, perhaps parent's should watch it with the kids but again not a bad show.

There are many other shows out there that I frankly have no interest in watching. Nip/Tuck, The Shield come to mind on cable. On the networks, Desperate Housewives, Fear Factor, Wife Swap. However, I would not deny those who enjoy these shows the opportunity to watch them.


13 posted on 01/07/2006 4:53:17 AM PST by Former Military Chick (I salute all our Vets, those who walked before me and all those who walk after me.)
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I saw about two minutes of it.

In what I saw, an asian guy (who was an adopted member of the family Daniel is a part of) was having sexual relations with a woman in the back seat of a car parked in the garage. They are caught by a foster sister, and soon after this guy's sex partner leaves, he makes a sexual proposition to his foster sister. When she leaves, in her wake she had dropped a parcel, which the guy picks up, opens, and examines: There is a bag of weed inside.

So the show's creator wanted people to "give it a chance." I did. This is Hollywood's response to Mel Gibson's mega-hit, The Passion of The Christ, and those who went to see it.

Despicable.

18 posted on 01/07/2006 7:58:01 AM PST by Houmatt (Screw Mexico! Seal the borders TODAY!)
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Just thought I would post a few of my observations...

There were plenty of plot ripoffs from other shows. The appearance of Jesus talking to him was directly copied from Denis Leary's Rescue Me (a great show BTW). The Alzheimer's stricken wife who doesn't recognize her husband was taken from Gray's Anatomy. And the drug dealing daughter and gay son were straight from Six Feet Under. Copying is what Hollywood does best, or in this case worse.

Second, I found it interesting that the show is not about evangelicals, but an Episcopal priest. They even made a point of mentioning that they have a gay bishop. So I'm not sure why evangelicals would be particularly offended. If anything it's an argument for what happens when a Christian church loses it's Biblical values.

Third, on a personal note, one of my friends in high school back in the sixties was the son of an Episcopal priest. He and his older brother were the two wildest kids in school. They looked like bikers and were totally into the psychedelic rock/drug scene. At one point my friend was arrested for burgling several businesses in town. Both were basically nice guys who straightened out later, but for some reason it seems when preachers kids rebel, they really rebel. So I did find that part of the show believable, if only from my limited anecdotal experience.
20 posted on 01/08/2006 3:39:51 AM PST by Hugin
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