I was not at all expecting this from you and am in complete shock and awe.
I still have my recordings of the early episodes + the Best Christmas Ever premiere. It was something incredibly new just for what they showed during that winter season.
We had episode delay airings specifically because of Standards and fighting Christ. We’ve actually come a very long way with religious satire in television thanks to this show because now any hack can make God or Jesus the unflattering main character. (Saw a cartoon trailer just today that shows God as a talking cat...)
All it took was portraying the cult a certain way for some Orel eps to be briefly deemed unairable.
As an atheist, I’ll say your notion about anti-religious fans possibly not liking Orel keeping his faith doesn’t quite speak for me personally. It was all about ultimately finding a way for Orel to break the cycle and remain himself whole. The bad ending would be him keeping the family tradition of being miserable and destroyed. He found a way to keep true to himself and not give into all the cathartic abuse that had shaped his worldview upside down.
Before Orel is an amazing special because it picks up on what the cancellation had missed with Orel’s non-faithful grandfather. The best role model in Orel’s life was indeed an atheist. That ending would be tragic for showing how the series prevails, except Orel’s innocence just doesn’t allow for it to come off that spiteful.
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I still have my recordings of the early episodes + the Best Christmas Ever premiere. It was something incredibly new just for what they showed during that winter season.
We had episode delay airings specifically because of Standards and fighting Christ. We’ve actually come a very long way with religious satire in television thanks to this show because now any hack can make God or Jesus the unflattering main character. (Saw a cartoon trailer just today that shows God as a talking cat...)
All it took was portraying the cult a certain way for some Orel eps to be briefly deemed unairable.
As an atheist, I’ll say your notion about anti-religious fans possibly not liking Orel keeping his faith doesn’t quite speak for me personally. It was all about ultimately finding a way for Orel to break the cycle and remain himself whole. The bad ending would be him keeping the family tradition of being miserable and destroyed. He found a way to keep true to himself and not give into all the cathartic abuse that had shaped his worldview upside down.
Before Orel is an amazing special because it picks up on what the cancellation had missed with Orel’s non-faithful grandfather. The best role model in Orel’s life was indeed an atheist. That ending would be tragic for showing how the series prevails, except Orel’s innocence just doesn’t allow for it to come off that spiteful.