Re: Joan Of Arcadia too subtle for American audiences?

"Steven O." <null@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:51:48 GMT, "Buckaroo Banzai"
> <blackhole34@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>without question... unless of course you don't believe.  I think it's
>>getting tiring that she questions every little thing God has her do.  I
>>personally don't believe in God, but if I was faced with what she's
>>experienced, I'd damn well humble myself and do what I'm told.... tuit
>
> I think if God spoke to me from a Burning Bush, I'd probably fall in
> line pretty quickly.  But if God was showing up looking like my
> annoying ex-girlfriend or my beer-buddy, I'd be inclined to engage in
> a bit of give and take too.
>
> In the JOA storyline -- and for whatever reason -- God is showing up
> as people who seem like just plain folks.  Whether it's the telephone
> lineman, or the janitor, or even the cute boy, these are exactly the
> kind of people to whom you'd want to say, "Exactly why are you
> bothering me this time?"  And in many ways, I think it's part of what
> actually makes the show compelling (even for you "disappointed in the
> second season" grumpies), because really, I think that is how many
> people relate to God.
>
> Think about it.  Even for people of faith, since they can't actually
> see God or hear God's voice, don't many of them engage in an ongoing
> dialog, saying to themselves, "Today, am I going to be a good
> Christian/Jew/Muslim, or today am I going to take a day off and party
> instead?"  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is precisely how
> a lot of people relate to God. and JOA simply makes that tangible
> through these offbeat Gods-in-the-flesh.

I'd give you all of the points you've made, the first 10 or 20 times God 
showed up as a stranger, told me to do something, and when I did it, I 
learned a lesson from it... after that, I think I'd take it on faith that 
the stranger that seems to know me is the real deal and I'd stop
questioning 
every little thing I was asked to do....