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Check the HBO message boards for JFC. The last episode that so mystified you has thousands of intelligent, well thought out posts. Dissecting with reason, and rationale explanations, the whole speech. Read some of those dissections and you'll sit there, shaking your head and saying; "Duh, why the hell didn't I see that, it makes so much sense." Of course, if you're already belittling the show, you haven't been paying attention, so it won't make sense, which is a shame. Nearly everyone who saw the episode last week was affected, including some raging atheists who had been watching the show simply to get fodder to flip shit at everyone else.
Some of the most poignant posts on there are from the atheists themselves... Grudgingly admitting that they damned sure weren't going to believe in god or anything, but there was something about the show, and about that last episode that inexplicably moved them to tears.
I am moved to tears by the show... And chilled beyond belief (In a thrilling, goosebumpy way) during the last episode when it appeared that all the elements were moving into place.
Sometimes you just can't be an elitist. Sometimes you just have to trust the abilities of a master storyteller to move you; gently, lurching, smoothly, violently if need be, into the story, into that world, let go, and believe.
