so dark the Wrath of Khan

[thez]

I've been trying to figure out why I'm so turned off by The Da Vinci Code, and I think I've hit on it: for whatever reason, most likely because I'm not a Christian and had no Christian upbringing, I just can't get terribly excited over the idea that Jesus had a wife and kids. As far as I understand it, that is the plot of the book - Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children, and there's quite the cover-up going on, hiding their descendents and whatnot. Intellectually I know why this would cause such a stir among Christians, but I can't feel it. All this "so dark the con of man" blather because a man had a family (even if his wife once practiced the oldest profession) does not strike me as entertaining.

That's not to say it couldn't BE entertaining. I like cover-ups, especially church cover-ups, and I'm sure I'd be all up on the Da Vinci train if the church were covering up some more interesting scandal, like: Jesus was really a woman in drag (awesome!); Jesus ate the faces of babies (delicious!); Jesus never really died on the cross and lived to be an old man, 2000 years old in fact because he was the last of an ancient Martian race, and one day his body was mangled in a car wreck, his brain saved by scientists to be placed inside a monkey's body and-

Holy shit, did I just write the premise for America's next hit sitcom?


(I'm sorry there was not more "Wrath of Khan" in this post.)

Comments

[sakibombshell.livejournal.com]

I think if you're hardcore Christian, maybe the premise is more interesting, but it seems that both apathy and excitement toward this movie and/or book is pretty much equal-opportunity. That tells me that it's probably more to do with actual low quality of the material. Which is what everyone seems to suspect anyway. I also hear that there's a discrepancy between the quality of the book and the movie.

But then again I haven't actually read the book or seen the movie, I've just done informational slideshows viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. So what the hell do I know. I am tempted to see just how bad it is. Or good.