There's nothing like a well-deserved bit of telly snark...

[pandorasblog]

I'd thank Bonekickers for giving me the opportunity if it wasn't such a pathetic excuse for television... granted, I went in expecting it to be a bit shite, but it was much worse than I expected:

- Cardboard Christians stereotyped as either power-hungry and other-worldly or meek and other-wordly. I can't tell you how much this bothers me. I'm not a

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[windiain]

Wow... see, I'd have just settled for, 'A steaming pile of shite that's trying to be Indiana Jones, The DaVinci Code and Time Team on a shit budget and failing miserably.'

A fucking ornate cavern beneath a dovecot in HEREFORDSHIRE?! I can buy Indy finding them beneath the desert, but Heredordshire?! Come on!

My dad's comment was, 'The biggest archaeological find EVER, and they SET FIRE to it?!'

I admit that I liked the Templar T-shirts, though. XD

[pandorasblog]

I think the t-shirts were the thing that made me think, hey, this possibly wants to be Buffy rather than Time Team...

[saffronlie]

So... I shouldn't bother?

[pandorasblog]

Depends - what's your stance on reading Merrick for pleasure?

[saffronlie]

I read Merrick for Louis! And also the boobies.

[rebness]

They were some damned fine boobies.

So that's crossed off my 'To Download' list...

[rebness]

You know what you should watch? Dexter. That's what you should watch!

Re: So that's crossed off my 'To Download' list...

[pandorasblog]

I definitely want to watch Dexter! I've been intrigued since the first season trailers last summer, but for some reason it never timed itself so that I could watch it.

[anonymous]

As an Atheist, I often see the potryal of Christian on TV as a bit odd...as you say they are either really really bad people (power hungry televangelists or insane killers for God) or really amazingly annnoying good people full of charity and grace beyond reproach.

They only really fairly accurate portrals of Christianity and American life is generally seen in Police and Fire dramas, not of the religion of the bad guy(which if mentioned at will be very stereotypical)...but the relgion of the main characters. Something that occasional comes up at crisises of morality, or at family event, or tragedies.

[pandorasblog]

Yeah, I've seen US dramas where a character could have a religious faith as a part of their general personality and this was not treated excessively. In UK dramas that seems to happen less, perhaps because, evangelical Christianity aside, Christianity isn't usually seen as being such a defining thing in peoples' lives, or if it is, it's more something experienced internally.

Mostly if Christianity comes up in general dramas and soaps, it's a crisis. Like this week in Holby City, when a surgeon had to decide if he could operate on conjoined twins when surgery would cause one to die, and his dilemma was the focus for the episode. But that kind of thing still sets the religious character apart from other people...