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[seekingferret]

Festivids revealed this weekend. As usual, there are a lot of really amazing vids. I made one treat, which has gotten a good response from the recip, so that's good. I highly recommend checking out the masterlist for fandoms you know. I also highly recommend watching lots of other vids- I have already gotten recced into The Librarians.




In other news, Fox has decided that the followup to its Grease Live televised musical is going to be a live passion play. Followed, presumably, by a live pogrom against the Jews. Fuck that. Seriously, fuck that.

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[bookherd]

Re: "In other news..."
Oh no, I had no idea. Shit. Thank you for including that wikipedia link.

[seekingferret]

So the complicated thing about discussing passion plays is that if a modern artist creates one and does a moderately competent job of not blaming the Jews for killing Jesus, Christians get utterly boggled when Jews get antsy about it. They think it's enough to not create an anti-semitic passion play for it to be okay, but it doesn't feel that way if you're Jewish because we always live with this lurking fear of anti-semitism. I feel it is irresponsible of Fox to stage a passion play in this public a way without doing outreach to the Jewish community to reassure our historically justified anxiety, and I have seen no evidence of such outreach.

[bookherd]

Some of that is news to me, but all of it makes sense. I agree that this is a major fail for FOX, though they seem to excel at devising new and more spectacular fails.