Off topic, but I watched something on Nat Geo the other day about polygamous cults and they focused onthis sexy beast, Winston Blackmore, head of the polygamous compound in Bountiful, British Columbia. He’s usually portrayed as one of the FLDS who wasn’t fed after midnight and thus several of his wives have been to college and his houses have TV and computers and basically not as backwards as the Jeffs sect that they formally split from.
The Scooby Doo “Hmmmm?” moment was when they showed one of his wives getting ready to go into labor and then moments after childbirth and said that the baby she’d just delivered (who would be given a name beginning with a J as he assigns an official letter for all babies each year) is his 121st child! (He doesn’t discuss the number of wives he had but the documentary estimated about 20 currently plus some who stayed on the Jeffs compound and were reassigned when his sect split from theirs.)
They didn’t say it was his 121st biological child, but even assuming that number includes lots of stepkids and adopted kids (which there’s no real reason to assume) that’s still a “WTF?” number. His family of course receives a lot of aid from the Canadian government and he owns several businesses (though he filed bankruptcy not long ago) but the finances of that family would be an interesting study for a doctoral student in economics or sociology.
121 children is just so far over the top. It leaves me speechless.
Here is what I would really like the LDS Celestial Temple to be - standing at the gates is Joseph Smith’s original wife, turning back all the male priesthood holders as they attempt to enter Heaven. “I’m so sorry, but you all interpreted everything backwards! Females are the priesthood holders! We are the birth givers! I am sorry but the Celestial Temple is only for women … and your women have determined that you were not worthy enough during your lifetime to be able to enter the Temple now.”
I think I shall keep that, perhaps, as my own quirky intrepretation of LDS faith.
I don’t know what the writers have done with this show, which really started out to be a wonderful show and raised quite a few questions and maybe even stirred some genuine interest in the LDS church (though nothing that I could stomach!). The past couple of years, though, the storylines have wandered and meandered all over the place, and now it seems like they are tobogganing towards the edge of an abyss. I really would love to see Barb become a priesthood holder, and I really think she could handle it, but I doubt this will happen. I personally think pretty much everyone I care about on this show is going to get shat upon, unfortunately. I guess I’ll just stick it out to find out what will happen, and that’s about it. I’m not holding my breath.
Not exactly. After she announced she couldn’t attend Bill’s church any longer, she and her mom went out the door one right after the other. I took it to mean that she and her mom were leaving together, at least temporarily.
Anyone else get the impression that this isn’t first time he’s done this? His parents seem particularly uncomfortable when they ran into her in the mall. And unlike on the compound (where she’d simply be told who to marry) Caralynn actively selected Mr Ivy. She’s pursuing him (of course he should now better than to respond to her advances). As far as she’s concerned she’s in control. She still has a bit of compound in he (like looking toward much older men for a mate and thinking she’s ready for marriage at 16).
About Bill & Barb’s divorce; how is it that they’re getting divorced in Nevada when both of them are still living in Utah? I know NV has the “loosest” divorce laws in the Union (Guam doesn’t count), but doesn’t Barb have to hole up in a local hotel for six weeks? And Lee Hatcher seems to representing both Bill and Barb; how does that work? :dubious: I also think that Barb’s going to turn this “paper divorce” into a “real” one before show’s end. She could be things very unpleasant for Bill if she puts her own lawyer on the case.
I wondered if the teacher has mental problems (as in, has been hospitalized for them). A good-looking 37 year old heterosexual schoolteacher is gonna be a respectable catch anywhere but I would think add Mormon to the description and put him in SLC, he’d probably have every other mother of an unmarried 20 or above daughter in town trying to set him up. He’d have settled down with someone by now if everything was on the level.
Sidenote: the best Chris Campbell moment ever- dancing in a G-string with Alan Cumming
Wow, I was scanning this thread because my wife was watching Big Love one day…now I think I may have to peep over her shoulder! I thought it was some girly show but it may be interesting after all!
This goes waaaay back, but does anyone else think the teacher looks like the male lover that Steven Carrington had on Dynasty? And just for the record, my gf “made” me watch that show. I swear!!
Especially considering Margene’s reaction when they started talking about Heavenly Mother? This is clearly new information to her and I doubt she’s going to go with Bill & Nikki’s interpretation over Barb’s. She’s never been a true believer in Mormonism (mainstream, fundie, or Church of Bill); she just like’s the support structure the plural family offers. Give her a family structure like that and she’d be just as happy as a Neopagan dancing skyclad on the esbat.
I guess I’ll just stick it out to find out what will happen, and that’s about it. I’m not holding my breath.
And Lee Hatcher seems to representing both Bill and Barb; how does that work? :dubious: I also think that Barb’s going to turn this “paper divorce” into a “real” one before show’s end. She could be things very unpleasant for Bill if she puts her own lawyer on the case.