Revelations on NBC tonight -- will it never end?

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-04-13 04:50pm

The Norse Gods are assholes. Of course, they don't pretend to be otherwise and they are preferable to what else is out there in Norse myth.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-04-13 05:06pm

The show is getting panned by the critics. It's one of those shows, apparently, that's so bad that it actually makes the critics angry.

And it's going to get ass-raped by American Idol anyway.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2005-04-13 06:26pm

I love the Book of Revelations. Trippiest thing you will ever read. EVER.

I thoroughly recommended it. It's got everything from Jesus shooting flames out his eyes while killing the infidels with a sword in his mouth, to all the nations of the earth getting drunk from Paris Hilton's vaginal fluids.

REMEMBER THE KJV BIBLE IS TO BE TAKEN COMPLETELY LITERALLY.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-13 06:44pm

UltraViolence83 wrote:I love the Book of Revelations. Trippiest thing you will ever read. EVER.

I thoroughly recommended it. It's got everything from Jesus shooting flames out his eyes while killing the infidels with a sword in his mouth, to all the nations of the earth getting drunk from Paris Hilton's vaginal fluids.

REMEMBER THE KJV BIBLE IS TO BE TAKEN COMPLETELY LITERALLY.

the writings of the mad arab in the necronomicon were far more entertaining and coherent.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-04-13 07:12pm

Chmee wrote:

They would also get 5 stars if, the first time Pullman meets Natascha, he opines 'That's just what we need, a Druish Princess.'

She's going to be a fucking nun!??!?! A fucking chaste nun?!?!?! That's a god-damn crime against humanity!!!!!

Makes you wonder if they even comprehend the notion of morality as we think of it. That's why I like the Norse gods. They know they're fucked, they even know how they are going to die, but they fight anyway, because what's right is right.

Meh. The Norse gods are just cool cuz they kick ass. Ripping apart demons and evil wolves and feasting and getting laid and whatnot.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2005-04-13 11:46pm

The critic in the Salt Lake Tribune gave it a good rating, and said it was better than most such themed shows he'd seen.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2005-04-14 01:18am

It was well-done.

That said, the nun comes off as a loon. And Bill Pullman's character is right. She isn't objective. She's also very bad at recording events. I mean c'mon, a girl in a persistant vegitative state who speaks and you don't even stick a microphone near her mouth? How stupid is that?

I don't know when this was written, but the coma comes off as really contrived to draw similarities to Terri Schiavo. And since when can priests physically keep nurses from entering a patient's room in a hospital?

Gah, the whole thing has a blatant agenda and you're basically shown that everything is a miracle, it's just that the others don't know it or there's no evidence because nobody bothers to document it properly.

Ugh.

Nick Lancaster · Post by **Nick Lancaster** » 2005-04-14 03:11pm

neoolong wrote:Gah, the whole thing has a blatant agenda and you're basically shown that everything is a miracle, it's just that the others don't know it or there's no evidence because nobody bothers to document it properly.

Ugh.

Gravity. It's a miracle! You just don't know it, because nobody has ever documented the invisible angels that hold things down.

Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, he stuffed invisible glowy angels into a glass bottle and had nasty electrical angels torture them. You just can't see it happening, 'cause you're stupid.

I don't mind the concept of God, or that there are things we don't understand, but whenever someone starts with, "Science doesn't know everything ..." it just makes my teeth grind. (At a science-fiction convention in the 1980's, I walked out of a panel on 'creating magic systems for your fictional world' because the opening statement was: 'science doesn't know everything,' and the other panelists dove right in for a hearty round of science bashing.)

Waiting for a miracle to happen is the worst kind of superstition.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2005-04-14 04:57pm

Majin Gojira wrote:It won't be the christian appocalypse until I see some fucking Locust/Scorpion Men!

You can't have an appocalypse without the Locust/Scorpion Men!

You should read this Harry Turtledove story in Counting Up/Counting Down where the world ends during WWI. Trenches, Artillery and Machine Guns>>>>Locust/Scorpion Men.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-04-14 05:08pm

I think I might give it a try, on the off-chance it'll unfold similarly to the movie 'Stigmata' (in terms of beliefs/opinions changing). Even though I'd like science to beat out religion at the end of one of these stories for once, if religion beats out science and does it well, it can be decent entertainment. So far this looks like fluff, but who knows how it'll be a bit more into it.

As an aside, does anyone know the name of the song they use in the TV promos? It sounds really familiar to me, but I can't place it...

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-04-14 07:10pm

Another reason to be glad I don't own a TV. Got to wonder about those fundie armageddon worshippers, why they are so down on life they want it to end not only for themselves, but everyone else. Except, of course, they somehow don't actually die but are saved, to inherit whatever's left of the world at everyone else's expense.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-04-14 07:30pm

On the other hand, this is network TV, so it's hard to disappoint me .... it doesn't disgust me nearly as much as a paranormal/psychic show being on the Sci-Fi Channel .....

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-04-14 08:31pm

Have they ever shown Second Coming over there? I'd bet that'd stir a few hornet nests.