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“I picture the kid in the back of Sunday school class—with the questions teachers dread. I know that honest answers now help solidify faith long-term,” Vischer said. Select theologians comb every script to accurately present the Bible on ground common to the broadest number of believers. “We work hard to show respect all around,” Vischer said.
Have a reviewer lined up now. Might see that in a few weeks.
This will be interesting. I've been unimpressed with the Jelly Telly endeavor. Frankly, the only VT dvd's we have were given to us...
I've always enjoyed them (the DVDs)... but I never had any higher expectations than "good clean fun." I have always appreciated their attention to older styles of music... the hat tips to operetta and opera, etc. And Brit inspired dry humor.
Message wise... well, they don't say a whole lot more than "God loves you very much and you're special.. and be nice to those around you." But hey, beats what's on tube, that's for sure.
(From what I hear this new series is much meatier)
Edit: it may help to know that I still think this guy is some of the greatest entertainment of all time... 
I agree that VT is "clean fun"- but the depiction of people such as Daniel and Esther as cucumbers and zucchini rubs me entirely the wrong way. Don't even get me started on the pickle-people being banished to the Isle of Perpetual Tickling.
I agree that VT is "clean fun"- but the depiction of people such as Daniel and Esther as cucumbers and zucchini rubs me entirely the wrong way. Don't even get me started on the pickle-people being banished to the Isle of Perpetual Tickling.
I don't mind the ones that are not supposed to be biblical accounts, like "The Toy That Saved Christmas" and we have had fun with some of the "Silly Songs with Larry"...but I agree about the others. When Mordecai (Pa Grape) talks to Esther about what God may be calling her to do, and she says, "No! I'm not gonna! Nobody asked me if I wanted to be queen" (or something very close to that)....uh? And King George and the Ducky (coveting a rubber duck that belongs to his friend, Jr. Asparagus) and making that very grave situation (David/Bathsheba/Uriah) into something that is funny ...dunno. Granted they are very clever, and there is plenty that makes me laugh. I just don't feel it is the best choice of depicting scriptural accounts for my kids.
I struggled a bit w/the sappy allegories as well, when our kids were young. Watched 'em with my kids and noted how they interpreted things. It was interesting. They both knew the true Bible stories already. In a couple of cases, the older one immediately saw the connection and recognized the vid. was not a "true" version. The younger one actually made no connection at all. I remember trying to point out that there was a true Bible story that resembled the goofy video, but he was not interested in that at all. To him, video is very "real" but it's real in a way that has nothing to do with real anywhere else.
It would be truly tragic for kids only (or even primary) knowledge of Bible stories to come from VT, that's for sure. And yes, there is a danger of communicating the message that a) the stories in the Bible are just as fictional as the vid. versions and b) the stories in the Bible are as trivial as the vid. versions.
So, like Susan, I've enjoyed more the ones/segments that had little or no relationship w/a particular Bible story.
Somewhere there is a line between allegory and parody. I'm not smart enough to say quite where it is.
For me, the sight of Haaman as a bling-wearing, limo-driving, Bronx-accented eggplant was a definite parody. And I'm not even that smart.
I had no trouble with the first three kids knowing the difference between fiction and reality, but our fourth child is 8 and he still thinks there are real dinosaurs being hatched on some island near Costa Rica. 
Have a reviewer lined up now. Might see that in a few weeks.