Maybe I was inured because just two days before, House had had its own atheist-versus-believer episode, chock full of its own woolly theology.
I stopped watching House about halfway through season 2, since all episodes are so similar. Maybe I was lucky. :-)
But I was pleasantly surprised by the priests in the Supernatural episode, especially living!Priest, who came off as a believable, thoughtful portrayal of an inner city priest.
Yeah, I liked the priests, both of them. Plotwise, I don't really have a problem with the story. It's when the moral and philosophical issues come up that I go all, "OMG, don't bother your pretty little head with that, you're fucking it up!"
For me there was the added element of my own strong attraction to the idea of redemption, and God skewering a would-be rapist who had just been prevented from committing his first crime is not going to sit right with me on that level.
Redemption is good, but they were pretty obviously not going with the loving, forgiving God-image in this story, so that didn't bother me so much. Hollywood's pretty unforgiving in general. But yeah, that doesn't exactly help the issue either.
I stopped watching House about halfway through season 2, since all episodes are so similar. Maybe I was lucky. :-)
But I was pleasantly surprised by the priests in the Supernatural episode, especially living!Priest, who came off as a believable, thoughtful portrayal of an inner city priest.
Yeah, I liked the priests, both of them. Plotwise, I don't really have a problem with the story. It's when the moral and philosophical issues come up that I go all, "OMG, don't bother your pretty little head with that, you're fucking it up!"
For me there was the added element of my own strong attraction to the idea of redemption, and God skewering a would-be rapist who had just been prevented from committing his first crime is not going to sit right with me on that level.
Redemption is good, but they were pretty obviously not going with the loving, forgiving God-image in this story, so that didn't bother me so much. Hollywood's pretty unforgiving in general. But yeah, that doesn't exactly help the issue either.
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