Divine: The Series

[ratherastory]

So, this post from Tumblr pretty much sums up most of my feelings about Divine, only without my reaction of "Gaaaah, this is horrifying!"

Comments

[sistabro]

*watches*

*looks at tumblr post*

LOL. Yep, you're right, that's pretty much right on the money.

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

Wha-what did I just look at? LOL

*hasn't seen it yet*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

You pretty much saw a screencapped summary of the show, with bonus LOLarious commentary. ;)

[rezuri.livejournal.com]

Like... horrifyingly BAD, or just horrifying?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Both. ;)

[rezuri.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, I ask you this on Twitter but I think it got lost amongst all the other Tweets: Do they let you keep the ticket stubs from the photo ops?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, although I didn't keep mine.

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

Your icon says it all.

Oh Misha...what the hell? *chuckle*

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

I totally blame the fact that I just read that AND watched that on you, just so you know. :D

I don't know whether I'm most horrified at the gore, the religious inaccuracies (and/or incoherently presented facts:Deacons can't consecrate! Did you perhaps mean Father Jim?), or the implied, multilevel, acting,-logical-and-theological trainwreak of future episodes...in addition to the current one...

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. I am so sorry. The rite is actually High Anglican and is decently accurate when you know it's not Catholic. But the rest made me cringe. ;)

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

REALLY? *wipes brow* I cannot tell you how much better that makes me feel! (definitely practicing Catholic here).

I kept going, "But wait! But no...but...where's the rest of the prayer!!!"

I mean, the show's still crap, but at least they may have done SOME actual homework.

Do you know if Anglican Deacons can actually preside over Eucharist? Wikipedia tells me nay, but there might be practical wiggle room. Or he might not have actually been consecrating...

*is confused, but less outraged*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure there is precedent in Protestant teachings that anyone can perform the rites if there is no priest to hand, in order to save a soul (last rites, baptism of infants, etc.).

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Though there was a priest to hand....

Eh, okay. *has reached the point where suspending disbelief is possible and flips the switch*

There, much better now. :D

Jumping in with professional knowledge ...

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Anglican deacons can't consecrate. Some Protestant deacons (like those in my church) can. In extremis in pretty much all denominations anyone can celebrate the sacraments in the absence of a priest, so dying people can be baptised; lay people about to be executed the next day can celebrate the eucharist and so on.

So, given that ministering is my actual, rl job, should I watch this?

Re: Jumping in with professional knowledge ...

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

The ministering thing will drive you crazy. Also, it's really gory and the crappy first-aid treatment got on my nerves. Furthermore, it's very poorly acted. I'm not recommending it, but it's only about 10 minutes long, so YMMV.

Re: Jumping in with professional knowledge ...

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *grumbles at show about the situation still not qualifying because there's a priest RIGHT THERE*

I'm seconding the "It's a horrible show with almost no logical explanation for anything and crap acting, but it's short" line.

I'm moderately glad I watched it. Now, if it comes up in conversation I can recoil in horror by my own choice and not by hearsay. :D

*shudders*

[dopeyangel101.livejournal.com]

Dear sweet mother of Jesus.
Is it bad that I'm strangely intrigued and almost want to watch this?