I like the show, okay? Give me a freaking break. It’s funny, it’s witty, it’s irreverent. It’s a little too Judeo-Christian for my tastes, and it’s obvious that Joan’s a Christian (Catholic I think, non practicing), and yet I like the show. Think ‘Touched by An Angel’ meets ‘My So Called Life’, with a dash of my style of writing.
There are some things that are horribly heavy handed, and others that you have to accept on faith.
So the plot, because I’m betting you’ve never watched, is as follows. “A family’s teenage daughter has unexpected conversations with God.”
Now that quote did not come from the website, CBS, or even the killer fan site JoanofArcadia.com, but from Yahoo!TVs description of what the new episode will be on January 9th.
“A family’s teenage daughter has unexpected conversations with G-d.”
Okay. This show has been going on for 11 episodes. We’ve seen Joan join AP Chem, learn chess, join the cheerleaders, get a drivers license, ace a history test, destroy her best friend’s artwork, and babysit a dying kid. In all this time no one has ever bothered to explain to me that she’s talking to G-d.
She has “unexpected conversations with G-d.” Wow! Can you believe it would take us 12 episodes to get that point? The writers must be really subtle, naming the show after that French lady who talked to G-d way back when people wore armor, and totally kicked British ass only to get burned at the stake, and then to not let us know right away that she talks to G-d on this Joan of Arcadia remake? Wink wink.
I just thought those random people were psychic! The way they knew everything about Joan, like why she was afraid to drive a car or that she had a crush on some guy. And that she was going to blow $20 on a frappuccino and a snack instead of use her own money to pay for a letter. Mind you, I have no problem believing the coffee and snack would be $20. Stupid Starbucks.
And hi, after talking to G-d every week for about four months, how ‘unexpected’ is this shit? Hot Guy G-d (no, that’s not his real name) or Smart-Ass Little Girl G-d or my fav, Mrs. Landingham G-d. They repeat business. They come back. Joan’s not that stupid, she’s clued in. How dumb are we?
Argh!
On the upside, the Boat episode, which I missed because of a fire and pre-empting, will re-air Friday. So yay.