Yes. That Barney both would not wear a condom and that some random lady wouldn't use birth control and not have an abortion strains credulity. At the very least, he should have been doing some sort of Priest seducing a Nun play.

I'd rather Mel Gibson only be present in breathy, angry voicemail messages to cast members.

Having only really heard about it second hand, it still sounds like a better movie than John Carter of Mars.

So at some point we'll get the "Shoot Hulk into Space" story made into a movie.

I think i had pretty much the same experience with those too shows. I also think that, going into the future, a show's importance will be dictated as much by how well it stands up to a binge watching on Netflix/etc. A lot of people I know didn't start 30 Rock till it was done, and just watched it in a big batch. …

The first Arrested Development finale in S3 is still my gold standard for satisfaction in a finale.

Battlestar Galatica. Dexter. More controversially? X-files.

I'm pretty sure that's why… also the part I'm thinking of might be from Titus, which was a forged Epistle and not actually by Paul. But still, the Bible was made from by profoundly pro-slavery societies. It is interesting that Europe managed to overcome that for a time, and then promptly go right back to doing it…

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing in general… especially if your theaters are overrun with old people WHISPERING LOUDLY and teenagers playing their fucking phones as mine are.

The answer *I* heard growing up in a liberal Christian church (which meant it was more, this is what nutty Baptists believe), was that they didn't bother writing down the names of all the women that were born, and that the various races were born out of the sons of Noah. And that human genetics were just better and…

And Cain killed Abel too. I recall hearing that the Cain and Abel story might have once been completely separate from the original creation story, and that's why it was easy for Cain to just go out and find someone else. Because, in the original version, there were other people.

Though the interesting caveat to that bulk buying is that, as more people get into the field, the individual book (and, presumably) Bible movie, becomes less profitable as the resources of the bulk buyers gets spread more thinly.

That isn't always good for the studio right? I remember hearing that a theater makes a higher % on a movie the longer it is in theaters.

I keep meaning to look at the Book of Enoch beyond the summary, and then I fall asleep. Its the Simarillion effect all over again.

Oops. Fixed :)

People are always suggesting stuff like that, but I say, ancient people are no less capable of imagining a world ending event from an exaggerated version of their experience than we are.

Just recently a scholar cleaned off an old cuneiform tablet and found a new, full account of the ancient flood myth, complete with the 'two by two' phrasing, from one of the epics that predated Gilgamesh. The boat was apparently a super large circular structure made out of reeds.

Perhaps she's referring to some of the Book of Enoch/Apocrypha stuff? I know that Noah was supposedly using some of the other mythology.

Heh, well, they were pretty big hoops, when you consider that even Paul was like "slaves serve your masters". And there were so many slavery rules in the OT. Don't beat 'em so much that they die immediately, guys!

Yeah, Son of God was just edited together from The Bible Miniseries.