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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

I LOVE Joan of Arcadia.

From tonight's episode:

quote:
Sometimes you just need to plant a seed and let it go off to grow on its own.

And from the teaser for next weeks' episode:

quote:
You're the one who made us ashamed of being naked!

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Random: Taalcon, where did you go to high school?

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

"You always say I get my brains from Mom, but I get it from you. I'm a scientist because of you...We're the same - the way we look at the world."

Katie
working late so she can go to California

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Beginning of Freshman: Glendale High School in Springfield MO. (1995)

Second half of freshman year through graduation: Toms River High School East, Toms River NJ. (1996-1999)

*yays that Katie got to see it!*

[ February 20, 2004, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Oh I thought you may have attended school in Sav. (I did.)

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Nopes, just college (SCAD).

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Right on. I was gonna go there but...

there was that whole running as quickly away from home as I could thing.

*shrug*

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I can't believe I just read this thread and I already forgot what it was about. Well, as you may recall I was ambivalent about JoA, but since the SuperBowl I'm boycotting CBS.

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Uhh...if you're going to boycott for the 'nipple incident', I think you'd be better off Boycotting MTV, Timberlake, and Jackson. CBS didn't know anything about it, and has been openly condemning the incident.

Have you READ any of the reports about it at all? Or haven't they reached pooktopia yet?

[ February 20, 2004, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Well, it didn't really involve much to boycott all those others. Really, I'd only tuned into Joan once. As it happens, not much news from Earth does reach pooktopia as I don't really watch TV.

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Then I suggest being informed of facts before you go out on a crusade.

[ February 20, 2004, 11:23 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]

Posted by TimeTim (Member # 2768) on :

When have facts ever played a role in a crusade?

[Smile]

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Extremely good point. [Hail]

Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :

Hi, my name is fiazko, and I'm a Joan-a-holic.

The scary part is, it was my smoker, drinker, ex-pothead, curses-like-a-sailor-friend that got me (grew up in the church, went to a Christian college, blah-di-blah) watching it as opposed to the other way around.

We watch it together at her place every week since that channel doesn't in for me. I've been very impressed thus far.

[edit for spelling]

[ February 21, 2004, 05:55 PM: Message edited by: fiazko ]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

CBS hired MTV and aired the show. CBS and MTV are owned by the same company. The type of person likely offended by the halftime show does not likely watch MTV. Boycotting CBS seems like a good idea to me if you care about the issue.

Dagonee

Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :

Joan of Arcadia is the best show still on tv.

[ February 21, 2004, 07:23 PM: Message edited by: Miro ]

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

quote:
Boycotting CBS seems like a good idea to me if you care about the issue.

But the issue has already been resolved! There's been apologies, the people who were responsible fessed up and apologized as well. What more do you want? Besides, I think Joan of Arcadia is actually the most moral, most moral and truthful show on television today. I'm sorry if you choose to miss it based on one single incident that the NETWORK did not want to happen.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Actually, I don't care - it didn't bother me enough to boycott. But if it did bother me, their "apology" wouldn't make me feel any better.

I have a hard time dismissing someone for making a principled stand.

Dagonee
P.S., I'm not overly fond of the show, either. Assuming "You're the one who made us ashamed of being naked!" is said to God, it shows such a blatant misunderstanding the story of the Fall that it has little to offer me there.

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

I've never watched the show, but my parents like it. Dagonee, do you really think she said that because she didn't understand the Fall? She was just flying off the handle with her words in anger, nothing more. [Dont Know]

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Taking into context that it was shouted out by a frazzled teenage girl who had just gotten a photograph taken of her in her skivvies in the locker room floating around school, and that the girl had no background in theology, I found it kinda funny [Razz]

[ February 22, 2004, 12:15 AM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

Taalcon said what I thought about it another way. [Razz]

Posted by alath (Member # 6150) on :

quote:
just college (SCAD).

My sister goes to SCAD [Big Grin]

Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :

I knew I should have watched last night before I went to robot! Stupid robot. Stupid me.