Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

[Testaments to the Boom Times to Come]

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Daniel would have been waaaay too late for the King David Shenanigans, but we could have gotten not only the rooftop bathing incident but gone as far as David Failing to Properly Parent His Children, some of whom didn’t deserve this (particularly his daughter Tamar) but were mostly Awful. Solomon is an exception as he got all his good qualities from his mother Bathsheba.

Hah I was actually going to ask if Daniel and David were anywhere close either geographically or chronologically, and it looks like nope!

Now SOLOMON I think I DO have pretty clear, he’s the one who mediates that dispute about the baby where he determine’s its true mother by their reactions to his proposal, got that one, but probably not as clearly as I’ve got SONG OF SONGS Solomon, i.e. writer of the sexy bits.

[Testaments to the Boom Times to Come]

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David starts out as our underdog shepherd Goliath-killer (and close friend with Saul’s son Jonathan), he’s the most famous King of Israel and eventually his bloodline leads to Jesus, BUT. While he’s king he sees a sexy lady taking a bath on her roof (she is named Bathsheba appropriately enough), gets very Bad Old Testament about it and sends her solider husband off to be killed so he can marry her himself. Obviously, punishment ensues. Another in the long line of very un-heroic Biblical heroes.

Haha lord I just knew King David fell for the sexy bathing lady, easily identifiable by her rooftop bathing locale, I didn’t know he had her husband killed about it! Uncool, dude.

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David : used to be a Sweet Kid and became a very bad boy but for some reason everybody likes him INCLUDING GOD; Daniel : A Good Boy but all of his coworkers hate him for being so Good (probs because he was a forced immigrant/former slave and it was a case of Damned Furreigners Stealin Our Jobs)

I’m now riveted by the prospect that the show would potentially tried to adapt this arc. Wow what Could Have Been.

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I've had the entirety of KINGS downloaded and sitting on my computer for years and have meant to watch it for Sebastian Stan, but after seeing your liveblogs at this point I'm afraid to

Let me just give you a For Instance, and you can decide if watching a show where this happens would bother you, OR, delight you. Or both, I’m both.

Okay, so possibly the first real GOOD thing happens in Kings (2009), The O.T., in the episode ‘Brotherhood’, in which there is suddenly a full-on plague. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL HEBREW! This extremely rules. And then here’s what happens next: the doctors have to channel their inner House and also inner Bones to straightfacedly explain the ludicrous workings of this virus, which include such gems as the line “The virus can only be passed on to new hosts” (what….is this supposed to mean to me. how does this affect prevention or containment in a way that is different from any other communicable disease), along with the following facts: always fatal, no treatment no cure no vaccination, highly contagious, BUT, only for 12 hours. This is the kicker, because it means that IF EVERYONE JUST STAYS PUT OVER NIGHT, anyone already infected will die, sorry bros, but then the virus will reach its shelf life and everyone else will be safe! Probably because this is all so clearly reverse engineered so they can do a Passover reference, I actually totally forgive it. BUT THEN, so many characters do not stay indoors that night?? Are just out there walking around and interacting? In flagrant disregard of what they themselves said had to happen?? No one mentions this discrepancy in any way, and in the morning they’re all like yaaaayyy everyone stayed inside it worked!! What…what. What.

God, just one more from this same scenario while we’re here: The King is informed that his son and his Favorite Boy (not the same person, A Dramatic Conflict), are driving back to the border after their mission in the neighboring country, and he’s like great they’re alive maybe one thing will go well for me on plague night! Of course NO ONE SEEMS TO RECALL how part of his plague precautions were that anyone approaching the border will be shot on sight, which is of course it’s own fucking mystery because why would that be necessary, YOU guys are the ones with the plague? Also what did I tell you about so many people still out and about!! But this is the plan for some reason, probably for the same reason that while the King tells his peeps to send out a team to meet them at the border, it simply does not occur to anyone to maybe radio over in advance about the crowned prince approaching in case they beat you there? And so of course they drive up to the border like woo we’re home, and are immediately fucking shot at and chased down the road. Just. These scripts are so challenging.

Anyway it’s pretty much like this 100% of the time and I am entranced.