Of Kings and Prophets…random musings from the British part of the Middle East
Ok boys and girls time for Tuesday night Sunday school at 10pm. I just realized it’s the time of the year that biblical shows are being broadcast so close to Easter. Amazing even considering that as more quasi-religious shows and movies are released, more people are defining themselves as either atheists or agnostic…but here it is.
So we are introduced to some of the main players
Hello David you sound British
Hello King Saul you sound British and weren’t you in Noah and Beowulf awhile back?
Hey Michal didn’t I see you in Star Wars hanging with Leia?
Well at least Samuel is not British.
So what’s the big deal?
Well depending on who you are, the book in which this is based on has been around a few thousand years, so there is that. But, if you aren’t up for grinding through the Holy Bible, this is the story of how David, a shepard boy befriended King Saul who eventually became so jealous of David, he tried to kill him. Most of this had to do with the fact that King Saul went against the word of God and his prophet Samuel. SPOILER: Saul dies, David becomes king and has a torrid affair on his wife, who is Saul’s daughter.
How is it so far?
I am trying soooo hard to forgive the acting but damn…I know 3000 years ago everyone didn’t sound like they were from London. Someone help me out here, when did the British accent become the de facto accent of everyone having an ‘upper crust’ upbringing?
ABC is trying extra hard to get that “Game of Thrones” vibe. There is tons of wanna-be political intruige as Saul is trying to negotiate with the Amalekites to get iron so that he can fight the Philistines. There is some balance of religion with the politics but it seems like it’s all on Saul where he is seemingly the only one who has some kind of belief in God and that’s because Samuel is God’s prophet.
I do find it amazing that biblical shows before this have always tried to find a way to keep it family friendly but ABC said bump it, we are going to be grimy. Considering that the Old testament was filled with sodomy, incest, murder and so on…who can blame them.
So I chuckled when I saw this at one point coming out of commercial break:
Followed by a somewhat not so graphic but heavily implied sex scene. Well at least the participants are mostly dressed.
…and that’s when the fight started.
So, if you stuck around this long, you are probably wondering at what point, things are set into motion. Well see, what had happened was, Saul wants to get his daughter married, but her soon to be groom is killed by the Amalekites (at least he got some as it was implied after that commercial break) thus Saul consults Samuel. Samuel tells Saul that God commands him to kill ALL of the Amalekites before God will bless this marriage. All the men, all the women, even the family dog. See, you gotta remember, way way back in the day, God was killing ere’body. Saul is kind of torn but, he goes off to kill the Amalekites, their women and the family dog…BUT, he leaves the king alive for torture purposes. Samuel tells Saul, that, it’s not part of the plan and brutally kills the last man. Yes, Samuel is a BMF for a prophet and not that kindly Yoda-like prophet we heard about in Sunday school.
That dun dun duuuuuuun moment…
Well, ABC has to try and get you to come back next week a’la Game of Thrones right? So what better way than one of Saul’s FWBs is a mole in his court…yay.
Ya know what…I will try to hang in there long enough to see David slay Goliath but I don’t know how much longer I will stay after that.
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