Casting the devil is a tricky thing; if you're not going with a caricature of a cloven-hooved man all in red with horns then you're going to have to watch what kind of face you put on the face of evil. History Channel's 10-part miniseries hit "The Bible," however, cast an actor (Mohamen Mehdi Ouazani) to play Satan that -- to some -- seems uncomfortably familiar.
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Stark wrote:Will it have cool songs like Jesus Christ Superstar?
Nope. It's a super serious take on the real history of the Bible. You know, like Moses actually parting the Red Sea, and Samson getting his hair cut and losing his strength. All that fact based stuff the History channel is known for!
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Look would anything I've said and done matter any more?
It's a bit sad that 'for serious' bible stuff always comes across as really tragically funny because of the earnestness. No really! Actual pious miracles in a 14th century setting in 2000bc! HONEST.
Stark wrote:Look would anything I've said and done matter any more?
It's a bit sad that 'for serious' bible stuff always comes across as really tragically funny because of the earnestness. No really! Actual pious miracles in a 14th century setting in 2000bc! HONEST.
I haven't seen any of it but the comercials and it looks like some of the most unintentionally hilarious shit ever. The best part for me is lillywhite Jesus.
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Apparently the bullshit channel got tired of recasting Hitler a thousand times.
Of course Jesus looks caucasian as ever. Quite unlike the browned skinned levantines.
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Remember how the important part is the death and resurrection? That's why people in troubled times are always obsessed with the apocalypse of John instead. Fuck that prince of peace bullshit.
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Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
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Are people surprised that History Channel is just doing what little audience is has left wants it to do? This is the same channel that thought ghosts and alien conspiracy theories constituted reasonable programming after running Hitler Documentary No. 4598 wasn't working anymore.
Discovery, TLC, and various similar documentary stations are no better either. Unless people still really think Orange County Choppers is a show that fits on a network known for Stephen Hawking narrated programs on star formation. Network TV in general has simply outlived its usefulness, it's been outpaced and left behind by the internet. The programming they air just reeks of desperation. The last pathetic attempts to remain relevant in an entertainment industry that is slowly leaving them behind.
CaptHawkeye wrote:Are people surprised that History Channel is just doing what little audience is has left wants it to do? This is the same channel that thought ghosts and alien conspiracy theories constituted reasonable programming after running Hitler Documentary No. 4598 wasn't working anymore.
My favorite moment in History Channel history was when they combined the two.
Nazi scientist X working on unknown classified project and his entire staff mysteriously disappear at the end of WWII. Skeptics claim that they were likely all summarily executed by Allied troops and dumped in a shallow mass grave, but ANCIENT ALIEN EXPERTS believe that they were able to escape in the time traveling spaceship they built and become time traveling Space Nazis.
That was actually the premise of one of their shows. It was almost sublime in its batshit craziness.
I'm with Nitram. I remember when the History Channel was new and it had documentaries with before-the-show narration from some guy whose name I cannot recall but I think involved Mud. It was a slow-paced, very educational channel, with an emphasis on History and, well, that. Sure, it was the World War and Hitler Channel sometimes, but World War II was a major source of documentaries out there. It was also, in a huge way, the Civil War Channel because I think the Ken Burns stuff (and all the associated copycat programs) really formed a heavy part of the original lineup.
It was a great source of educational documentaries. Now, when I go home to a place that has a television, all I see on Discovery, TLC, and History are ghosts, cakes, and screaming backwoods country sorts.
Thanas wrote:Of course Jesus looks caucasian as ever. Quite unlike the browned skinned levantines.
I once asked some black Jehovah's Witnesses why the Jesus on their literature was white. They didn't have a good answer.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.
Flagg wrote:I hope they do Revelations. You know, the bit where all the shit Jesus "actually" did and said gets tossed out by a hermit on mushrooms.
Don't you peeps know? Love your enemy and turn the other cheek aren't meant for this time period, this "dispensation". They only come into effect once Jesus comes and killfucks all the evildoers at the day of judgement and establishes his own kingdom on Earth. Until then, plenty of enemy-hatin' and cheek-slappin' are needed so Jesus' won't have that much to do.
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O God, please don't let me die today, tomorrow would be so much better!
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Being compared to the devil should be quite flattering. He is the second most powerful being in existance after all (and being compared to the most powerful would be blasphemy ).
The optimist thinks, that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist is afraid, that this is true.
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