First of all, I’m so in love with half the people on this show (it’s the ‘under-30 in appearance’ half.) GothGod…Can I trade one of the guys at my school for him? I mean, we can ditch the God part, even.
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I’ve got a couple of questions for those who discovered this show before I did. I checked out the website, so I know who’s who, with one rather large exception: God. How does Joan recognize Him/Her and how is the audience supposed to? I can handle the idea of a seemingly innocuous conversation which turns Significant; as one of the Board’s religious fanatics, I can see how that would happen, but I was wondering if it were somewhat more obvious. [/quote.
In the first few eps, God identified his/herself by revealing some personal (and possibly embarrassing) info about Joan to herself. The idea being that this was the type of thing only someone omniscient would know. Recently, I suppose she’s just getting better at figuring “Stranger telling me to do something = god.”
It’s very obvious that Adam still has a major thing for Joan after he told her father where he could probably find them. I’m still of the opinion that Adam has a major martyr complex. I’m thinking one of two things:
1)Joan will finally get over it and leave him alone as he asks and he will flip around in a heartbeat and get over his pain.
2)We’ll see an episode where God tells Joan to do something for Adam that will end the conflict.
But honestly, when will we see either of these happen? When ratings start to slacken, because right now everyone who watches and is hooked is waiting for the Adam/Joan thing to reach closure, and no doubt CBS will milk that puppy for all it’s worth.
As for me, what I’d really, REALLY love to see, is another brief moment where God meets Price in the hallway again and sticks it to him, like last time, something about the library.
Next on Joan of Arcadia:
GOD: Joan, I want you to set up Luke and Grace up on a date!
And yes, Grace looked very nice in that dress…
One last comment, I hope that snide little shit, the one Joan called Brillo Pad, the one who tried to make some moves on her because he thought she was slutty in the last episode and mocked the bully, gets a kung fu matrix style punch to the balls.
I look forward to watching JoA every Friday; there were no previews so I’m afraid that it will probably be at least a week or two before we see a new JoA show.
The actor playing Ramsey looked familiar to me, but I definitely hadn’t suspected that it was “Chip” from “Kate & Allie.” He still has a very youthful looking face, imo, so it worked having him in HS, but probably won’t for much longer, considering that he’s 28 IRL.
Loved seeing Luke with Grace and didn’t she look hot in that pink dress?! Poor blonde geek girl, though–she looked so down because she totally has a crush on Luke. Luke’s buddy, the one they called Brillopad, made me want to smack him–he’s awfully biased.
Poor Adam and poor Joan! It was obvious from Adam’s actions this week that he still has feelings for Joan, but again his feelings were hurt by Joan. At the end, when the family came home, I was afraid that Joan was going to break down and tell the family about talking to God, and her assignments; I’m really glad that she didn’t! And wasn’t it funny how they all groaned about going back to the counselor (who, imho, was a -terrible- counselor, especially how she just ignored what Luke was trying to say).
My daughter and I did not see the end coming–it was a shock to see what Joan did prevent. Love Mrs. Landingham-God; she was just the right one to explain it to Joan. Just love this show!
God can appear in any form, any color, any age, at any time. His/her nature becomes obvious to Joan as soon as they engage in conversation and God shows knowledge of things that no one else could know except for Joan; God will make references to things that just happened to Joan, and since God at that time could be a telephone repairman, small child, or school official, it’s clear that this person was nowhere in sight earlier when a certain incident occurred–but s/he knows about it nonetheless.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode although I agree with whoever said that the ending sucked. It would have bugged me not to know the purpose of what Joan did but as a Trekker, I’m used to inventing ideas for loose ends. I’d’ve rather had to come up with my own conclusion than have the already cliched school shooting ending put on me.
Also, Adam and Joan shouldn’t get together this season. Let this be a slow burn.
I should have seen the ending coming and I didn’t and it left me shaking and crying. Wow.
Joan’s dad did a great job disarming Ramsey–Mantegna was able to show how much the Chief didn’t want to have to kill him, but was prepared to do it to save Joan.
Best episode yet–and Mrs. Landingham is the best God yet.
