# Kings 3/22 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383 "2009-03-22T21:33:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/1 "2009-03-22T21:33:48Z")
Queen Rose prepares for visitors from Gath. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/2 "2009-03-23T00:18:16Z")
Wait, I wasn’t paying enough attention at first… Who is to be assassinated? The Gath leader or our young David? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/3 "2009-03-23T00:55:19Z")
Sounds like the later to me. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/4 "2009-03-23T01:06:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Sounds like the later to me. Well, eventually I realized that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/5 "2009-03-23T01:13:13Z")
I’m TIVOing it and am darned confused. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/6 "2009-03-23T03:20:10Z")
My wife and I like this show so far, but I don’t care for the actor who is playing David. There’s something about his delivery that puts me off. I’m not huge on the whole “chosen one” aspect of the chow. I would rather it focus on the regular goingson of this alterworld. I don’t know how well it’s doing in the ratings but I’ll bet we’ll never see resolution of anything before it’s cancelled. Sucks because Silas is an awesome character. Basically Sweregen without the cussing. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/7 "2009-03-23T03:39:18Z")
I’m digging this show. Might be my new favorite this year. I expect there to be some divinity, it being a modern retelling of Samuel. It seems like part alternate history of America / part biblical tale set in a world that’s as in touch with God as he was made out to be in the Old Testament. Treachery, intrigue, secrets, honor, good characters and nice production. It’s really different, and I wonder how far it can be taken. Let’s hope the ratings come together. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/8 "2009-03-23T03:44:31Z")
This episode was great. Question:Vow… of Chastity? For the daughter, that is. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/9 "2009-03-23T06:43:28Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > This episode was great. > > Question:Vow… of Chastity? For the daughter, that is. I have a feeling she’s been secretly betrothed to some foreign prince somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/10 "2009-03-23T10:02:18Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I have a feeling she’s been secretly betrothed to some foreign prince somewhere. That’s my guess, too. Though if we go with the source material (I’m not going to spoiler tag the Bible), David and Michal do marry. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/11 "2009-03-23T14:41:52Z")
Was there a previous episode? I thought this was the premier and I was completely lost without any backstory. Good actors, but I didn’t care for it. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/12 "2009-03-23T14:46:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Was there a previous episode? I thought this was the premier and I was completely lost without any backstory. Good actors, but I didn’t care for it. Last week was a two-hour “movie” premiere. I’m relatively certain that it is available on NBC’s website. I can imagine how this episode would be quite confusing wihout last week for backstory. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/13 "2009-03-23T15:07:20Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Last week was a two-hour “movie” premiere. I’m relatively certain that it is available on NBC’s website. I can imagine how this episode would be quite confusing wihout last week for backstory. It’s also available at [Hulu.com](http://Hulu.com) and for free off the iTunes store. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/14 "2009-03-23T19:07:30Z")
Not quite as awesome as last week’s (the Queen persuading her brother to chill out by promising to bring back his son was a bit out of the blue), but the the stuff with Silas and Brian Cox was great. Who was in the picture? The princess, maybe? She doesn’t seem old enough to have been taken thirty years ago. Oh, and I like how they’re not afraid to have such obvious comedy relief characters as the palace guardsmen – like Shakespeare. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/15 "2009-03-23T19:14:43Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > the stuff with Silas and Brian Cox was great. I did not recognize Hannibal Lecter. > [@Cliffy](#): > > Oh, and I like how they’re not afraid to have such obvious comedy relief characters as the palace guardsmen – like Shakespeare. Thanks for pointing that out; I was a little annoyed until you mentioned the Bard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/16 "2009-03-23T20:55:38Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > …the stuff with Silas and Brian Cox was great. All through that scene, I kept waffling back and forth on whether or not it was Brian Cox. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/17 "2009-03-25T07:20:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thanks for pointing that out; I was a little annoyed until you mentioned the Bard. 🙂 At Television Without Pity, they’ve been dubbed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/18 "2009-03-25T12:18:36Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > All through that scene, I kept waffling back and forth on whether or not it was Brian Cox. Was that the same actor who was the troupe leader in _Deadwood_? I thought he looked familiar. Now if we can only get a cameo from fucking Wu. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/19 "2009-03-25T13:12:47Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > At Television Without Pity, they’ve been dubbed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. …who get whacked in _Hamlet._ Do these guys know something we don’t? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383/20 "2009-03-26T07:44:45Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > At Television Without Pity, they’ve been dubbed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. No, they’re [Those Two Guys!](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseTwoGuys) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-3-22/490383.md?page=2)