Eeeee! I really enjoyed it. It's definitely not going to be my *happy* show, but it's a good one.
I've been spoiled by Merlin though; I wanted Jack and David to be best friends! (Pretty sure biblical Jonathan and David were... must reread Bible.) Maybe later?
I sort of figured the prince would be gay. The advertisements have been all about the David and Goliath, but the story is clearly David, Johnathan and Saul.
When I started watching it, I was all "well, in the Bible, it's sort of unambiguously ambiguous. I wonder how they'll handle it on this?" and then THEY WENT THERE. Right out in the open! (But I don't remember the arms-merchant brother-in-law in the bible and now must actually haul the thing out and read it.)
My FAVORITE favorite part was how easy it was to imagine a word balloon for Silas right at the very end saying "Cocksucker!"
The Biblical David and Jonathan were at minimum BFF and quite possibly fucking like bunnies in spring. And that's the official, canonical (like Biblical cannon cannon!) version.
Seriously, David and Jonathan have been a symbol of "the love that dared not speak its name" for a damn long time.
Hey, might as well do something useful with all that Bible knowledge that was beat into me as a child...
David and Jonathan are as much a core pair in the history of homosexuality as any of the Greeks couples are :D It's like the original slash pairing, millenniums before Kirk and Spock.
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oh fandom is gonna explode. Should we start the countdown to fic?
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I've been spoiled by Merlin though; I wanted Jack and David to be best friends! (Pretty sure biblical Jonathan and David were... must reread Bible.) Maybe later?
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And the touching by the Preacher to David? His forehead then later his mouth?
Then the King all touchy with David too? This is going to be so good.
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My FAVORITE favorite part was how easy it was to imagine a word balloon for Silas right at the very end saying "Cocksucker!"
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Biblical
Seriously, David and Jonathan have been a symbol of "the love that dared not speak its name" for a damn long time.
*wanders off to write slashfic of the Bible*
Re: Biblical
I really REALLY hope the show follows accordingly:D
Re: Biblical
David and Jonathan are as much a core pair in the history of homosexuality as any of the Greeks couples are :D It's like the original slash pairing, millenniums before Kirk and Spock.