# Joan of Arcadia 1/14, Or They Won't Stay Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761 "2005-01-14T20:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761/21 "2005-01-16T19:08:31Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > When have we seen Gay God before? He was funny, and I don’t remember him. He was in an episode earlier this season. I don’t remember which one, but in the previous episode he was behind the counter in the school office. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761/22 "2005-01-18T11:00:54Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > When have we seen Gay God before? He was funny, and I don’t remember him. [This episode.](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-17466/epid-368944/) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761/23 "2005-01-18T12:06:03Z")
I just wanted to say that I don’t agree with Ivyglass about God possessing bodies in the show. As I see it, the stenographer was God. Time did not stop. The lawyers continued to talk in the background, discussing, as they are wont to do, the gnats and nits of legal minutiae — oblivious to the quiet conversation going on between Joan and Steno God. I thought it was a perfect metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761/24 "2005-01-18T12:09:10Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s why I don’t think he was Joe Broadway until the end. Prior to that, the director was nervous and hyper and being sarcastic to the kids. Then, on opening night, he’s just sitting back and laughing, waiting to see what happens next. I think that Director God, just like Steno God, was God all along. Some of His personalities have already been sarcastic and hyper, even snippy. For me, the series finale of this show will completely reflect my theology if, in the end, everyone turns out to be God, including Joan. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761/25 "2005-01-19T03:23:18Z")
Just got around to watching it tonight (and, sigh, I’ve joined the official ranks of the Joan Geeks – I no longer just watch if I’m home and not busy, I now tape when I’m out). Did anyone else notice who gave her the flier at the top of the show? I thought “Oh, that’s – soandso” – but now I can’t remember who soandso was. ([IMDb](http://imdb.com/title/tt0367345/guests) doesn’t help – but I love the way some of the characters in bit parts are described: Pizza Delivery/God; Balloon Sculptor/God; Beer Bong Student…) Oh, and if we’re voting as to whether we think God inhabits the bodies of people who exist otherwise – I don’t think he/she/it does. I took the court stenographer god to be someone the lawyers were oblivious to, not someone who could zap them into freeze frame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-1-14-or-they-wont-stay-dead/284761.md?page=1)