I've finished the series, hence not asking for spoiler protection. I'm totally behind the argument of not spoiling for the show. As a Sunday-school going Christian who has sung several major choral works about the life of David (we had a whole concert on music about David, we even had a promotion where Davids got in free), this is still not an area of his life that I know at all. I'd forgotten about the existence of Jonathon entirely. What I know is more the *SPOILER FOR BIBLE* falling in love with Bathsheba and sending her husband to be killed in the war so he could sleep with her thing, which made me veeeery skeptical about the budding romance on the show. I also know about God retaliating and David losing his beloved son Absalom. So, not really relevant to the period of the show.
(Also, as a side note, David--not a shepherd. The way Bronze Age titles went, he was something more like Minister of Agriculture. I find it so funny the ways that the modern meaning of Biblical stories are often soooo far from the original and what the original was meant to convey to its original audience, but that's a theological discussion for another time.)
What I was wondering was--what was the big surprise in the show? I found nothing about David and Jonathon's storyline really shocking. As soon as Jonathon told his uncle he was in, you knew it would go very badly for him. And with all the learning about Roman imperial politics I've been doing, I could call pretty much everything that happened. (Also, the spoiler in the commentary was that Ian McShane said his court biographer was killed off. And...that didn't happen. At least I didn't notice it, and I was paying attention.)
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(Also, as a side note, David--not a shepherd. The way Bronze Age titles went, he was something more like Minister of Agriculture. I find it so funny the ways that the modern meaning of Biblical stories are often soooo far from the original and what the original was meant to convey to its original audience, but that's a theological discussion for another time.)
What I was wondering was--what was the big surprise in the show? I found nothing about David and Jonathon's storyline really shocking. As soon as Jonathon told his uncle he was in, you knew it would go very badly for him. And with all the learning about Roman imperial politics I've been doing, I could call pretty much everything that happened. (Also, the spoiler in the commentary was that Ian McShane said his court biographer was killed off. And...that didn't happen. At least I didn't notice it, and I was paying attention.)