JFC Watch: Anyone? Anyone?

I will come clean, I am actually enjoying it! I love the way Milch writes and I just sort of turn off my skeptism and figure to take the surreal ride.

My take is that Sean is the Divine, John the messenger.

Maybe its just not much else in the summer, so I am not going to spend a lot of energy defending it. But I am on the curl awhile longer.

@CL: I do still love Milch's dialogue. ("Chameleons, they call them!") I just wish I felt it was more in service of something, or that I felt there were any kind of stakes going in this show.

Still with it, but yes, last night's show seemed to be a sign [not necc a biblical one] that Milch will end an episode whenever he darn well wants to, dramatic structure be damned. I kinda felt Soprano-ized by that ending last night!

Milch's message? I don't know... maybe that we are to wait paitently for the story (or at least some good waves; there really wasn't any surfing in last night's show) to develop.

What's the doc going to do in all this? Is he going to join team "super gay?"

I'm still watching this with my wife and a couple of my friends are still watching. I was thinking JFC was really a show that HBO could call "Touched by an Effing Angel," but I like this New Testament idea a lot. What Chris Larry says about John being John the Baptist and Sean being Jesus could be right on the money. But I'm really wondering how many people are watching this after last night.

I'd place myself in the "like the dialog, waiting for the story" camp, but I don't know how many more episodes I can take of this. Right now the show is just an extremely disjointed mess of storylines that seemingly have no direction towards a resolution. Do we really need the doctor, the lackey drug dealer, the lawyer, and motel owner? If they don't start doing something to show why these people matter in the story, or that there is even a story, this show is going to go down as a bomb for HBO, especially with it having taken the Sopranos timeslot and the inevitable comparisons that brings up.

imho if you read the lyrics to the theme and notice the parts they cut out it really states a lot about it. I'm in the sam boat though, this many episodes in and it feels like nothing happened they couldn't have condensed into an hour and a half.

afa Rome goes though that was a natural ending. I don't think even if the production budget was less that they could have continued given the time period they covered. I know it didnt always follow the timeline truthfully but the general brush strokes were there and the show would have become much less interesting continuing against the timeline where it was at. all my .02 anyhow

@DK: I agree that ending with Octavian's triumph gave the series closure, which was good. But it's not as if you couldn't have done further seasons. Augustus' reign was not exactly uneventful. Of course it does become a different show when it's about the consolidation and exercise of power rather than attaining power.

But, I'd rather have had two seasons of that than more seasons of something that looked cheaper, so I'm not bitter about it.

I'm thrilled about JFC (Jesus Fucking Christ!)
Because the bottom (or highly vibrational, way over-the-top) line is... This stuff is really happening on the planet people. People are doing these things and you can believe that or not.

There is no ONE Divine, WE ARE ALL CAPABLE OF
AMAZING, SUPERNATURAL, SUPERCONSCIOUS EXPERIENCES.
It just takes the 'magic number one' to start
the effect where Jesus and his doubting disciples
left off... JFC could start the dominoes flowing
and every single monad of reality could shift
if we simply quit judging and start 'knowing'...