I’m a Christian, and of course that means I enjoy Christian media. I can also accept the inherent issues in low-budget productions if the studio meets me half-way with a good stories and actors that at least seem to care about what they’re doing. And yet some of these productions fall a bit flat. Fellow geek Christian Halley Callahan (wife of fellow Reviewers Unknown refugee Charlie “Spazzmaster” Callahan) looks into why Christian media has a good message, but a bad story.
By the way, I was going to make this the filler video for Tuesday but she didn’t get back to me in time. She did want me to link to she and Spazz’s new home at Geekvision, which has some other RUers as well as BW fave The Isle Of Rangoon, as well as their personal site, which features her other show, Spazz’s review show, and their joint monster movie v-log reviews. So even though this is a link and not a posting I decided to do it anyway. Thanks, Halley!
There are some faith-based media that are learning but I think Christians, and this is true for Conservatives because I’ve seen it from them as well, have been pushed out of the movies for so long that we need to re-learn storytelling media. I’ll also copy/paste a comment I made on the YT posting: Christian comics have done a better job with this. Not that there aren’t some bad ones, but there are some real good ones who realize the message makes a good theme for your story but there needs to be more to make a GOOD story. And it’s a good Christian story with a good Christian theme that will get Christian and non-Christian alike to enjoy the story, which may leave them open to the message of the Gospel. Barring that, they may still get something good out of it or at least enjoy it, which is what any storyteller should strive for. This will make them follow your work and maybe the next one will touch their hearts with the message. But only if they’re entertained long enough to stay for the message.
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