King David

[watervole]

 I'm not posting much at the moment, because I'm still recovering from various things - but mostly on the up and up now.

So, I thought I'd recc a post instead.  

Try selenak.dreamwidth.org/1602061.html

A very interesting review of the first episode of 'House of David', which also talks about other adaptions of the biblical stories and their pros and cons.  How should David be portrayed? Why do modern versions skip all his bad deeds?  Would it be possible to do a nuanced version that shows his personality changing over time?

 

It's not a show that I'll ever watch, but SelenaK's such a good reviewer that I always end up thinking hard about what she says.  

Comments

[igenlode]

I remember (a very long time ago) being struck by the character of Michal, who appears in the background at various points of David's story, and going through the relevant sections of the Bible gleaning all the references to her, with the idea of making a coherent character arc out of it. (This was before online searchable versions, obviously...)

But I wouldn't have made her fall out of love with David because he agrees to pay a bride-price which she thinks barbaric, because that is (a) non-canon and (b) sounds like a very modern (and hence anachronistic) attitude.