Episode 1 to Infinity
Lately, with all of the press about the Jesus special that's going to be premiering tomorrow on Vision TV (Christian network with a really sexy studio in the Liberty Village), a lot of really important and key issues have been up for discussion all over the media, during family dinners and even in the lunchroom at work. Ranging from crisis in the Church, to the possible earth shattering effect on the future of Christianity and their fundamental belief system, I would like to identify another critical issue to come out of this potentially huge discovery: the threat of this scientific discovery turning into a ridiculously long series of episodes about their archaeological dig.
Growing up, I loved the specials from National Geographic that would take you to the Valley of the Kings, explore the myths of the Pharaohs, and inspire you to want to become an archaeologist. Now, there seems to be a paparazzi style to sexing up the world of digging up old stuff where a documentary is stretched, and spread over 5+ episodes. The part that really kills me (normally caused by severe self inflicted seizures which can be attributed to a lack of patience) is that there's never any conclusion or answers to these shows, especially when they advertise it as being the latest and greatest scientific discovery/revelation of all time. You go from episode to episode, the next one being a recap of the one before, with hardly any new info added. On top of that, you keep on watching till the very last episode because they always say "everything will be revealed" in the last installment. And it isn't until you get to the last installment that you realize (well God willing you realized earlier) that there wasn't anything to be revealed in the first place. In fact, the producers could have just condensed everything into a half hour special.
Hopefully, the Jesus special that is on tomorrow won't be like that and will instead take a "scientific approach" to rationalizing their discovery, while being able to intelligently challenge Christians as to what inspires them to believe in the first place.
...However, I'll bet my first born that in the following weeks, the Discovery Channel will have 10 part specials for each and every person, animal or thing mentioned in the bible!
Growing up, I loved the specials from National Geographic that would take you to the Valley of the Kings, explore the myths of the Pharaohs, and inspire you to want to become an archaeologist. Now, there seems to be a paparazzi style to sexing up the world of digging up old stuff where a documentary is stretched, and spread over 5+ episodes. The part that really kills me (normally caused by severe self inflicted seizures which can be attributed to a lack of patience) is that there's never any conclusion or answers to these shows, especially when they advertise it as being the latest and greatest scientific discovery/revelation of all time. You go from episode to episode, the next one being a recap of the one before, with hardly any new info added. On top of that, you keep on watching till the very last episode because they always say "everything will be revealed" in the last installment. And it isn't until you get to the last installment that you realize (well God willing you realized earlier) that there wasn't anything to be revealed in the first place. In fact, the producers could have just condensed everything into a half hour special.
Hopefully, the Jesus special that is on tomorrow won't be like that and will instead take a "scientific approach" to rationalizing their discovery, while being able to intelligently challenge Christians as to what inspires them to believe in the first place.
...However, I'll bet my first born that in the following weeks, the Discovery Channel will have 10 part specials for each and every person, animal or thing mentioned in the bible!
posted by Miss Pow @ 12:36 a.m.
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