Appropriate Mormon entertainment?

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

Hmmmm......

People, even outsiders find Mormonism interesting but L-DSers don't seem to appreciate it. Look at the list of (Mormon) hits.

1. Big Love: they hate it.
2. South Park Mormon episode: they hate it.
3. Book of Mormon musical: they hate it.

What do they expect? A missionary discussion?

[_The Nehor]

Are you also surprised Catholics generally didn't like the movie Dogma?

Or that Jehovah's Witnesses were annoyed by how they were represented on Family Guy?

Are you that naïve?

[_Buffalo]

Are you also surprised Catholics generally didn't like the movie Dogma?

Or that Jehovah's Witnesses were annoyed by how they were represented on Family Guy?

Are you that naïve?

Or that Scientologists were annoyed by how they were represented by anyone, anywhere? Not unlike Mormons, in that.

[_The Nehor]

Or that Scientologists were annoyed by how they were represented by anyone, anywhere? Not unlike Mormons, in that.

Except it is very unlike us. I haven't heard any LDS complain about President Hinckley's interviews on TV or all the news broadcasts about us or the tongue-in-cheek appraisal of our religion by South Park in the famous hell scene or coverage of the Osmonds or.....I think you get the point.

Maybe making hyperbolic comments like this just makes you look like an idiot.

I'm guessing you weren't even right about Scientology.

Just keep typing without thinking my friend.

[_Doctor Scratch]

Hmmmm......

People, even outsiders find Mormonism interesting but L-DSers don't seem to appreciate it. Look at the list of (Mormon) hits.

1. Big Love: they hate it.
2. South Park Mormon episode: they hate it.
3. Book of Mormon musical: they hate it.

What do they expect? A missionary discussion?

I really think it's the more hard-line, orthodox LDS who dislike this stuff. The more liberal Mormons have less of a problem w/ it, and probably like it on all kinds of levels (esp. Big Love). If I recall correctly, juliann and others on MAD/MDD once said that they are fans of the South Park episode, though they almost always hasten to reference that other episode where God comes down and announced that it was "The Mormons" who were actually right in terms of predicting the conditions of the afterlife.

The whole situation reminds me a little bit of what Phillip Roth faced in terms of criticism from the old school Rabbis. Obviously, there are lots of Jews who are huge fans of Roth, but the more conservative elements had serious problems with his work. Chief among these was a fear that some of his work (like the story, "Defender of the Faith," e.g.) would lead to anti-Semitism, and I think you get some of the same stuff from LDS. This is one of the reasons why so much Mormon narrative "art" is totally banal and devoid of genuine conflict. With very few exceptions, the best Mormon-related narrative art has come from people who are either disaffected, or else full-blown apostates from the Church, just like Wallace Stegner predicted.

[_zeezrom]

Wait, Mormons hate The Book of Mormon musical?

[_Buffalo]

Or that Scientologists were annoyed by how they were represented by anyone, anywhere? Not unlike Mormons, in that.

Except it is very unlike us. I haven't heard any LDS complain about President Hinckley's interviews on TV or all the news broadcasts about us or the tongue-in-cheek appraisal of our religion by South Park in the famous hell scene or coverage of the Osmonds or.....I think you get the point.

Maybe making hyperbolic comments like this just makes you look like an idiot.

I'm guessing you weren't even right about Scientology.

Just keep typing without thinking my friend.

I heard complaints about Hinckley's interviews. Every question that wasn't a softball was referred to as a "gotcha" question.

[_Eric]

I haven't heard any LDS complain about President Hinckley's interviews on TV or all the news broadcasts about us or the tongue-in-cheek appraisal of our religion by South Park in the famous hell scene or coverage of the Osmonds or.....I think you get the point.

LOL. Hilarious.

[_The Nehor]

I haven't heard any LDS complain about President Hinckley's interviews on TV or all the news broadcasts about us or the tongue-in-cheek appraisal of our religion by South Park in the famous hell scene or coverage of the Osmonds or.....I think you get the point.

LOL. Hilarious.

Thank you for your input.

[_sock puppet]

I have it on good authority that some hardcore LDS like One Good Man, Life as a Latter-day Dad.

Ughh.

And for music, Noteworthy.

Ughhhh.