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Same here, I thought it looked
different...and good.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 4:12
AM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Anyone Plan On
Watching?
General Hospital. Yes, looks different, not the
same old ya know.
Jen --
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:24
PM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Anyone Plan On
Watching?
Which one?
I know the previews for it
looked pretty good I thought.....
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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 3:10
AM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Anyone Plan On
Watching?
Yep, she used to be on my
soap....
Jen --
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Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003
4:31 PM
Subject: [Sndbox] Anyone Plan On
Watching?
I want to see this
one....anyone else plan on watching?
Speaking of the WB, "Joan of Arcadia," which debuts Sept.
26 and is about a
contemporary teenaged Saint Joan, is CBS's first
serious effort to try to
WB-ize itself. Middle-aged dramas like
"Brotherhood" and crime dramas like
"The Handler" are more in keeping
with CBS's traditionally older
demographic, although "Joan"'s
religious fantasy theme does echo that old
Eye network hit "Touched
By An Angel."
CBS's Maid of Orleans is 16-year-old Joan
Girardi (Amber Tamblyn), daughter
of a police chief (Joe Mantegna)
and housewife (Mary Steenburgen) who are
both lapsed Catholics.
Creator-excutive producer Barbara Hall (previous
credits: "Judging
Amy," "Moonlighting," "Northern Exposure") is a lapsed
Methodist who
became convinced of the existence of God through reading books
about
physics.
"It's so clear when you look at physics how little
we understand," Hall said
at the CBS news conference. "We are really
the fish who don't know that
they're in water." Hall is a convert to
Catholicism. But one of the rules
for "Joan of Arcadia" writers, she
added, is that God doesn't favor any
particular religion.
"I can safely say that we're going with monotheism," Hall
noted with a
laugh. "It's sort of worked for a while now."
Other rules of the show are: God can't directly intervene in
human affairs,
he can only work through humans; God won't answer any
direct questions; God
doesn't punish directly; Joan always has the
right to refuse God's requests;
God may be benign, but the universe
is not.
God does not speak to "Joan of Arcadia" as a
disembodied voice or burning
bush but appears in various human forms
-- most commonly, in the pilot, as a
cute guy not much older than
Joan herself.
Of all the theological questions posed through
the ages, this may be a
first: What if God were a hottie? (Or ... a
nice black cafeteria lady who
gives you extra tartar sauce for your
fish?)
The show could be cloying. But Hall's an intelligent
writer, and she has a
sharp, edgy actress in young Amber Tamblyn
(daughter of actor/dancer Russ
Tamblyn of "West Side Story").
I asked Hall if God would ever appear to Joan as unpleasant
or frightening.
"He can be odd-looking, but he's never going
to be malevolent," she
responded. "There will be scary elements in
the show, because my thinking is
that God is only interesting in a
scary world."
The real Joan of Arc, of course, led great
armies into bloody battles and
ended up burnt at the stake, which
would be kind of a TV downer. But also, I
guess, a must-see series
finale when sweeps time comes around! So I wouldn't
count anything
out at this point.
Copyright 2003 by United Press
International.
Greg Hopper
"Why is it that our children
can't read a Bible in school, but they can
in
prison?"
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