With the second season of Big Love (pictured, with Jeanne Tripplehorn, left; and Chloe Sevigny) coming to an end, we thought it was a good Read the full post.
Aug 20
2007
10:35 PM ET
The Experts Corner: How real is 'Big Love' season 2?
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In case anyone is interested: The casino was in Wendover, NV, a town on I-80 where it crosses into Nevada. It’s a common destination for those who need to escape Utahn stricture but can’t make the six hour trip to Las Vegas.
It’s interesting to me to read about how the children ‘feel’. One post talks about how great it was to be loved by multiple moms…or was it a mom talking about loving other children in the marriage besides her own?…I don’t remember..
But what struck me was remembering how grateful I was to my ex-husband’s new wife for loving our son so much….I was never a huggy/touchy mom…Patti, on the other hand, is…and it was the perfect balance that my son needed when he was younger….
We certainly weren’t ‘sister wives’…but we both parented my son and it was a very, very good thing…..
To Suggestion:
Krakauer’s book is a fascinating read, however, I think you misunderstood the purpose of the book.
Krakauer wrote the book in response to 9/11, trying to explore how fundamentalism in religion often results in violence. He makes quite clear that one can find fundamentalist sects of ANY religion, and that he is merely using Mormon fundamentalists as an example.
The book does give some interesting history on Mormonism, including the integral part which Mormons played in settling the western part of the US.
The book is not ‘about the violent history of Mormons’. It’s about how fundamentalism often begets violence. It raises interesting and thoughtful questions about how we define religion, fundamentalism, and beliefs.
If what you took from this book was ‘a violent histroy of Mormons’, you need to re-read it.
The casino they referred to was in Wendover. Wendover is a real place, with real casinos, at the Utah and Nevada state lines – in Nevada of course.
I think that the show is starting to feel contrived. The Barb character is too much of a martyr. In reality, a woman who is that smart, with a well off family, and who is a stunner, would have left. She has alternatives. The other ladies do not, or do not realize that they do. Bill is pretty selfish and Barb is smart enough to know that. Also, I personally think that life is kind of boring for those ladies, trapped and sharing a Viagra man? Sexual boredom will cause the youngest one to stray. Nikki’s unhappiness and inability to even consider being a full woman with her own agenda and needs is expressed as anxiety and her gambling addiction. (a little pop psychology).
I Love the show… I find the idea of “communal living” very interesting… but I have to say that I think it’s incredibly selfish for anyone in this day and age to have ten or so children… let alone one man who has huge numbers of children… Is there no understanding among these people of global impact? It’s not something the planet can support. If everyone decided to have this many children the effect on our environment would be devastating… It’s just so egocentric and why wouldn’t the women want “extra” sexual partners, or lovers, or power? It is historically such a common desire… to create a balance of power… between men and women… why must we always look backward to male figures hundreds or thousands of years old for our wisdom… I mean to appreciate and incorporate their thoughts is one thing but to base an entire system of living on outmoded thinking is irrational.
To Krakauer Fan,
I never said anything about the intention of Krakauer’s book. I simply Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
Let’s try this again.
To Krakauer Fan,
I never said anything about the intention of Krakauer’s book. I simply said that the book dealt with the violent history of mormonism, which is clearly stated in the title: “Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.” I dare say you read too much into my post.
When will the 08 season of Big Love be aired?
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I am a new Mormon and was disowned by family because they feared I was getting myself involved with the “polygamists” but when I tried to tell them what we are really believe they just wouldn’t listen.
I wish the media would focus on the “other/true” side of the LDS church.
I think that it is good that not just Big Love but the movies that are out and the new TLC reality show about polygmy while I would never say to my husband ya sure its ok to take on another wife (but then again I would rather pass him off to a sister wife when he is grouchy LOL)
I think that a LOT a HUGE majority of people that find fault in it find fault in the freak show known as Warren Jeffs.
Please remember what the United States whole reason for EXSISTENCE is……FREEDOM OF RELIGION and freedom to practice your faith in your rituals to the Lord as you see fit…and your Higher Power for that matter I think that ALL religions that are not murderous cults (there are murderers in every religion so lets leave out the FLDS I am not advocating for them)
I think that FORCING the LDS church to stop allowing plural marriage in the United States is a SERIOUS CRIME and goes against our Freedom or Religion…..the country was “found” (after the American Indians I know) by the Pilgrams that came here for RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS…..we allow muslims to practice, islamic, and jews to have holidays that are recognized and special diets and this and that and days that they cannot work and times of day that they need to be in and not working etc etc etc. We cannot fire them because to tell them to come into work after dark on a Friday by driving would be a FIRM NO…because their religious beliefs and if they were fired they could sue and WILL WIN…..yet plural marriage was part of the founder/prophet’s message yet you have taken the BASE the original way that this religion professed its love in the light of the Lord and that is OK
So we let the government tell us that yes we can be a religion of our choice but as long as it adheres to their way of thinking….we have a President that stands up and defends the Quarun (sp?) and anti-muslim buildings (which I do not think that ALL muslims should be punished for the sins of the few stupid idiots from 9/11 and the al-qaeda hurt our country…not every muslim is a stupid murderer like those freaks that are not following the quran.
Anyway all I am trying to say is that this country was settled by the pilgrims and they started the government and they came for the SOLE reason of religious freedom and this one religion LDS had to be changed to make the government happy…umm whats wrong with that picture isn’t that what the pilgrims left?? A king that told them how to pray and how to believe and how to follow the Lord according to the LAW not to their hearts.
I am 100% against Warren Jeffs marrying off minors and marrying family members and inbreeding…and forcing marriage….that is not a religion that is a man gone wrong…there are other LDS and FLDS that are not freaks like Warren Jeffs