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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by boomboomsubban on Sunday December 05, 2021 @02:35AM (#29447525)
I'll admit to being biased against the show from the start, but your description of it sounds like Jesus is just a constant deus ex machina. Is there more to it than "Jesus shows up and everything's cool now?"
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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by colordrops on Sunday December 05, 2021 @02:58AM (#29447609)
Considering its meaning, is your use of the term "Deus ex machina" (god out of the machine) intentionally ironic?
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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by boomboomsubban on Sunday December 05, 2021 @09:09AM (#29449346)
It's just the term for a seemingly unsolvable situation suddenly being solved by an unexpected occurrence.
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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by eitland on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:22AM (#29447697)
Haven't seen the Chosen yet but the stories as written are quite a bit more nuanced.
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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by jollybean on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:15AM (#29447666)
"but your description of it sounds like Jesus is just a constant deus ex machina." - there is no reasonable way to infer this from the given comment. Thee 'bias' may be a bit stronger than imagined.
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Re:Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’ by boomboomsubban on Sunday December 05, 2021 @09:06AM (#29449328)
Not particularly. Their description was that everybody has real problems that are changed by coming in contact with Jesus. Real problems, solved by a solution suddenly showing up in the third act. A deus ex machina.
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