Big Love is BAAAACCKK!!!
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Didn't that line of filth come from the mouth of Yoda?silentkid wrote:Blixa wrote:'Specially loved the line: "Remember in Sunday school when they told us our parents would rather see us come home in a pine box rather than lose our chastity?"
I told my mom about this line after the show. She totally remembered being taught that and told me that it made her really uncomfortable/upset at the time.
Opps I mean, Spencer Yoda Kimball and his Sasquatch revealing book MoF? (Miracle of Forgiveness)
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Polygamy Porter wrote:Didn't that line of filth come from the mouth of Yoda?silentkid wrote:Blixa wrote:'Specially loved the line: "Remember in Sunday school when they told us our parents would rather see us come home in a pine box rather than lose our chastity?"
I told my mom about this line after the show. She totally remembered being taught that and told me that it made her really uncomfortable/upset at the time.
Opps I mean, Spencer Yoda Kimball and his Sasquatch revealing book MoF? (Miracle of Forgiveness)
Huh. I always thought it was Bruce R. McConkie.
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Bond...James Bond wrote: 1) Over/under 5 episodes before Alby is driving to Mexico for a gigolo? (evidence: Tainted Love, looking at the man candy at the Sheriffs Office, his aborted pickup last season)
No doubt about it. He must be doing a lot of masturbating and is looking for some hunk of a man to mutual masturbate with.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 2) Margene is still a hottie, but totally clueless
Yeah, but it's partly her cluelessness that makes her so sweet.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 3) Nicki is still a hottie, but that is completely overblown by her total sadistic, lying, bitchy act
Ugh... I'm not sure I'd think she was hot even without the act. Maybe she's just that good of an actress, but she totally turns me off.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 4) Over/under on the son and the youngest wife getting down and dirty (2 episodes)
I was surprised that didn't happen last season.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 5) They listen to the worst music (damn will someone buy these people a Led Zeppelin album already, geez)
And when the latest wife of the prophet was singing for that recording about Jesus, the chills and skin crawls were running rampant in me. *shudder*
Bond...James Bond wrote: 6) Anyone have a WTF? moment when Nicki made that speech where she wondered if love was enough for a marriage/the holy covenant of plural marriage.
This was an instance (and there have been a few) where I really liked what she said. Cracked me up.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 7) Who thinks Bill should cut all ties with those wackjobs at the compound?
But then you lose half the show's raison d'etre.
Bond...James Bond wrote: 8) No Nudity!!!! Will someone get Bill laid already.
No kidding. If she's old enough (she looks to me like she's around 24, actually, despite her character's implied age), I'd like to see more of the eldest son's girlfriend.
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Episode 2.5 thoughts
Holy crap....can they ratchet the (melo)drama up anymore on this show? I was seriously ready for Wayne to fall and break his neck when he ran away from home and was jumping on the trampoline.
Thoughts:
1) Alright this whole family is screwed up. There I said it.
2) Nikki's anti-Catholicism was a little over the top....but I guess some people feel that way. And margene laided the smackdown calling her out and talking about "her religion" (I'm assuming Mormonism....but maybe Nicki's a Buddhist or something, they haven't said really ;)
3) Anyone else think they should give Rhonda a couple turkey sandwiches and a one-way bus ticket to New York City. Honestly she's evil. Linda Blair in Exorcist didn't have crap on this crazy spoiled brat.
4) Honestly Bill, 3 is more than enough. Seriously. If you're going to hook up with the waitress dump Nicki. That'd be great on working towards cutting ties with the compound.
5) Joey and Barb are totally having an affair by season 4.
6) Anyone else hate Rhonda for no other reason than she said Jimi Hendrix had the Mark of Cain?
7) Alright....they finally gave Teeny two seconds worth of coverage. But honestly.....wouldn't that two seconds have been better used on NUDITY!!!!
8) No Nudity!!!!! And Margene snores apparently.
9) Alright what's up with Bill and crazy family members. Is it the imbreeding? His mom was canning rolls of money!! WTF?
10) Anyone else get the feeling that Roman either A) directly killed Bill's grampa the Prophet or B) had him killed?
11) Anyone else think Bill should fire that fat flattop wet blanket Don? Bill finally has a good idea (getting into gambling) and Don starts acting like a total pussy. Come on Bill---fire that little bitch and hire some cutthroat attorneys to be your braintrust.
Holy crap....can they ratchet the (melo)drama up anymore on this show? I was seriously ready for Wayne to fall and break his neck when he ran away from home and was jumping on the trampoline.
Thoughts:
1) Alright this whole family is screwed up. There I said it.
2) Nikki's anti-Catholicism was a little over the top....but I guess some people feel that way. And margene laided the smackdown calling her out and talking about "her religion" (I'm assuming Mormonism....but maybe Nicki's a Buddhist or something, they haven't said really ;)
3) Anyone else think they should give Rhonda a couple turkey sandwiches and a one-way bus ticket to New York City. Honestly she's evil. Linda Blair in Exorcist didn't have crap on this crazy spoiled brat.
4) Honestly Bill, 3 is more than enough. Seriously. If you're going to hook up with the waitress dump Nicki. That'd be great on working towards cutting ties with the compound.
5) Joey and Barb are totally having an affair by season 4.
6) Anyone else hate Rhonda for no other reason than she said Jimi Hendrix had the Mark of Cain?
7) Alright....they finally gave Teeny two seconds worth of coverage. But honestly.....wouldn't that two seconds have been better used on NUDITY!!!!
8) No Nudity!!!!! And Margene snores apparently.
9) Alright what's up with Bill and crazy family members. Is it the imbreeding? His mom was canning rolls of money!! WTF?
10) Anyone else get the feeling that Roman either A) directly killed Bill's grampa the Prophet or B) had him killed?
11) Anyone else think Bill should fire that fat flattop wet blanket Don? Bill finally has a good idea (getting into gambling) and Don starts acting like a total pussy. Come on Bill---fire that little bitch and hire some cutthroat attorneys to be your braintrust.
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Bond...James Bond wrote:Episode 2.5 thoughts
Holy crap....can they ratchet the (melo)drama up anymore on this show?
I love the unexpected plot turns and bigger and bigger problems. I also like the layering of more and more subtle mormonisms.
1) Alright this whole family is screwed up. There I said it.
Oh, I don't know. I kinda like all the Sandy Hendricksons (the compound is another matter). I even like Nikki.
2) Nikki's anti-Catholicism was a little over the top....but I guess some people feel that way.
I thought it was exemplary of how Mormons often feel about crosses, crucifixes and "the great and abomnible whore" church. When the POV camera follows Nikki's slow gaze up the crucifix---I thought that was perfect. I was always taught in church that crosses, crucifixes and rosary beads were at worst potentially evil and at best mystical mumbo-jumbo of the ignorant. Nikki's remark that you might as well wear a pendant of an electric chair around your neck is something I actually heard more than one teacher in seminary and MIA say (see, its really a symbol of the icky torture of Jesus and not something good).
3) Anyone else think they should give Rhonda a couple turkey sandwiches and a one-way bus ticket to New York City. Honestly she's evil.
But that's what makes her such a great character. I hope she doesn't go anywhere soon. Also I want to hear her sing some more.
4) Honestly Bill, 3 is more than enough.
Oh, but what about all the heavenly increase?
5) Joey and Barb are totally having an affair by season 4.
I doubt it.
6) Anyone else hate Rhonda for no other reason than she said Jimi Hendrix had the Mark of Cain?
No more than I hated all my childhood Mormon friends who said things llke this.
7) Alright....they finally gave Teeny two seconds worth of coverage.
Yeah, more Teeny.
8) Margene snores apparently.
My DH makes me stop snoring the same way. I wonder why that works?
9) Alright what's up with Bill and crazy family members. Is it the inbreeding? His mom was canning rolls of money!! WTF?
Hey she doesn't trust banks. At least canned its hidden and imperishable.
10) Anyone else get the feeling that Roman either A) directly killed Bill's grampa the Prophet or B) had him killed?
Its obvious that Roman had a hand in it and I wouldn't be surprised if he did the deed himself. Perhaps Father Hendrickson had some sin he needed to blood atone for? I'm hoping that that's the explanation.
11) Anyone else think Bill should fire that fat flattop wet blanket Don?
I love Don. He's a sweetheart.
Know who I don't like? That drippy guy Sarah's into.
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I like big love. It shows just how polygamy can work and the problems that polygamy can bring into marriage. I also like the characters. I think that Nikki is beautiful. Hard not to have some lust for her in a plural marriage. It all brings to mind that without a god inspired relationship, such marriages would be difficult to manage. Lust should not come into the picture but the eternal perspective should be the cornerstone of the marriages.
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why me wrote:I like big love. It shows just how polygamy can work and the problems that polygamy can bring into marriage. I also like the characters. I think that Nikki is beautiful. Hard not to have some lust for her in a plural marriage. It all brings to mind that without a god inspired relationship, such marriages would be difficult to manage. Lust should not come into the picture but the eternal perspective should be the cornerstone of the marriages.
That horses*** is why people live out in a compound and molest children.
Nice justification tool.
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I have no doubt that people can create various forms of family relations that both satisfy them and contribute productively to society. But Mormonism denies this, Why Me. It demands one historically recent organization as The Only Way.
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