The History Chennel used to be my favorite channel, by far.
Then, after about a decade of pawn shops, ice truckers and ghost hunting, I stopped watching completely.
I assumed that ‘The Bible’ would be presented in an offensive manner, so I haven’t tuned in. Is it any good?
It is good. The story moves very fast so don't expect it to convert anyone, but for those of who are Christian it brings some of the best stories to life and reminds us of some details that are fascinating. I can't wait for the evenings on the life and crucifixion of Jesus.
I don’t find it offensive. To me, though, some of it is presented in a confusing way. I don’t deal so well with flashbacks. LOL!
You will be pleasantly surprised if you watch it. I was skeptical, but so far the stories seem to adhere to the Holy scriptures. I decided to watch it after hearing Sara Palin’s endorsement a couple of months ago. It will be out on DVD just a few days after Easter. Highly recommend.
—— Is it any good? -——
It’s fine, but kind of mechanical. It’s worth its weight in gold, though, for sending a message to Hollyweird.
Imagine if true artists devoted their skills to producing Bible-based movies. There are unending riches to be mined.
Hopefully this series will help us to get there.
It's OK. It's not great, but not bad either. The stuff they get wrong is fairly trivial and the rest, while sometimes cheesy, does get the basic story out. Of course much is left out-- think of it as the Readers Digest Condensed version of the story. Production quality is fair. Is not a Spielberg movie by any stretch. I have my own theory of why it is doing so well: There are lots of people that want to know the story of the bible without having to read it. They see this as an easy way to do that. There are plenty of Christians and Jews that have never read the -whole- Bible front to back. Maybe even most of them. Heck... There's probably a lot of Christians that've never even read the whole NT front to back. This is giving a lot of people a cheat-sheet of basic knowledge of the story. They've been pretending for a long time to be more familiar with the Bible than they really are. This is a quick catch-up. As such, I'd say there's no particular harm in that. Some of them will get the bug to go back and read it. Nothing wrong with that. The production values are a little disappointing and the small errors are annoying-- but they're small enough that I had to get back into the text myself to double check the differences. Nothing wrong with that either. :-)
I like it! I have a subscription setup on my DVR, since I never remember about TV shows anymore.
One of the things everyone likes to complain about are the recurring appearances by "ninja angels," but frankly they're one of my favorite things so far. These are some bad arse angels, with some seriously cool looking armor. You don't mess with them - as is proper for God's angels.
Why not make angels who are super cool, intimidating, and kick butt when God commands? What does everyone expect, creepy looking birdmen as depicted in the minds of Renaissance painters? Who says that's correct? Ninja angels are much better.