Big Love Season 3 thread

[_TAK]

So Saturday, our Bishop and his wife invite us to go to the Temple with them. We can't make it, but I told them that it's OK "we were planning on catching it on HBO Sunday anyway". Pause....big laugh.

LOL .. Sessions for Shut ins..

[_cinepro]

Ok...how has no one mentioned this line:

[Barb says she wants to go to the Temple]

Mom: How do you propose to get in?

Barb: One of you is going to lend me your Temple Recommend.

Mom: Oh no no no...I can't do that. I mean, it was just a few years ago that we stopped promising to disembowel and slit throats of people who were monkeying around with Temple rules and procedures.

[_TAK]

Ok...how has no one mentioned this line:

[Barb says she wants to go to the Temple]

Mom: How do you propose to get in?

Barb: One of you is going to lend me your Temple Recommend.

Mom: Oh no no no...I can't do that. I mean, it was just a few years ago that we stopped promising to disembowel and slit throats of people who were monkeying around with Temple rules and procedures.

LOL Southpark on 'Roids..

[_cinepro]

I'll bet the next Sunstone will have a comic with a bunch of angels sitting around in heaven, and one of them says "No, I was never a Mormon. When I saw those big sentinel angels, I just panicked and did what I saw on Big Love back in 2009. And here I am."

[_The Dude]

Wow. Watching that temple scene is almost overwhelming. It's been years since I've participated in temple ordinances, but it seems like only yesterday. I can remember the signs and tokens clearly. The added music during the temple scene definitely adds to the "spirituality" of the event.

I caught it on Youtube this morning and I thought the same thing. That Barb is pretty sharp if she can say the whole "at the veil" spiel without messing up once.

The youtube video of Big Love's temple episode is already circulating Facebook. So far today, I've three messages from never-Mormon friends, all expressing shocked disbelief that I willingly and frequently participated in something so overtly cultish and odd. I'm not sure how to answer them, or even if I'm going to.

Never-Mormons expressing shocked disbelief? Really? Any religious person who expresses shocked disbelief needs to take a look in a mirror and ask herself why she is such a bigot. I hope most people who are newly exposed to this will think, "Gee, what are they trying to hide? What is the huge deal?" Because that's what I thought when I first went to the temple.

[_KimberlyAnn]

Never-Mormons expressing shocked disbelief? Really? Any religious person who expresses shocked disbelief needs to take a look in a mirror and ask herself why she is such a bigot. I hope most people who are newly exposed to this will think, "Gee, what are they trying to hide? What is the huge deal?" Because that's what I thought when I first went to the temple.

That's what I thought they'd think, Dude. I figured never-Mormons imagined the temple ceremonies as much more bizarre than they really are, but I guess I was wrong.

I asked one agnostic friend what seemed so "cultish" to her, and she answered, "The chanting." I think it was the prayer circle that seemed the oddest to my friends, even the religious ones. Looking at it from their perspective, I can see how that might come across as really weird.

KA

[Anonymous]

I asked one agnostic friend what seemed so "cultish" to her, and she answered, "The chanting." I think it was the prayer circle that seemed the oddest to my friends, even the religious ones. Looking at it from their perspective, I can see how that might come across as really weird.

KA

Can you imagine how your friend would feel about the temple had Big Love shown more of the ritual or used the Adamic language on that clip?

Does it bother anyone else that Big Love doesn't explain the doctrine of polygamy in the storyline better? Here she is in the court of love, and has a chance to defend living the principle, but doesn't once mention canonized LDS scripture D & C 132, or that Mormons currently seal men to more than one wife in the temple, all the teachings from the Prophets, etc.

The letter in the storyline made no sense. They seemed to have mixed up Woodruff with the one by John Taylor.

They need better or more exMos helping the writers and director of the show.

[_cinepro]

I'm not sure how to answer them, or even if I'm going to.

KA

My response would/will be "Duh. Why do you think we keep it so secret?"

And I wonder how many LDS last night whispered silent thanks: "Thank you for not showing washings and annointings!"

[_Mister Scratch]

I thought that this was the best episode of iBig Love that I've seen. Some louts would like to simply dismiss this program as a "soap opera," but I think that it is the best television drama that has ever been made about Mormonism. (Feel free to nominate counter-examples.) Some of us want Mormonism to be represented in the arts.

Was the temple ceremony portrayed respectfully? Yes; I think it was. There was and admirably calm sense of serenity about all of it. Further, the men in the Celestial Room paced about as if they were Vulcans, which seems reasonably accurate, in my opinion. And then there was the (horribly?) TBM touch at the end: "Your fifteen minutes is up." Ouch.

I agree that the Court of Love was far, far more damaging to the reputation of the Church, and that it much more represents what Mormonism needs to correct, PR-wise. I would very much be interested in hearing the MAD-ites defend the hyper-paranoid actions of the Bishop and SP: "Are you carrying a recording device??? May we take your purse???" What are they so afraid of? (The quoting of Packer was utterly priceless--and devastating--btw.)

[_neworder]

Full Video at

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=V8H6L4H0