About to start watching #TheChosen S2E2, "I Saw You."
This is one of my favorite episodes. It introduces both Phillip and Nathaniel, and the "under the fig tree" dialogue is one of my favorites in the gospels.
This episode is especially meaningful to me, because I started watching it the night before my cat passed away. I ended up watching #RedDwarf instead, which is kind of hilarious (I mean the irony is, the show itself is very funny, too), because I had a family member with me and they weren't getting the "historical period drama" 😂
This will be my sixth official watch-through of Season 2, but it is no less than my seventh of this episode, possibly even eighth. That's just how much I like it, and how much various parts of it have resonated with me over the past approximately 1.333 years.
#NowWatching #ISawYou #UnderTheFigTree
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I love how #BiblicalLiteracy is a big theme in this episode and the next, but it's handled in such a unique way, as it's just woven into the culture. The Bible isn't quite so much something to be analysed in a studious way, but an integral part of the language and culture, and for the acolyte, a subject of careful thought and meditation, rather than of frantic material-absorption.
#MemorableQuotes
Tavern barkeep: Did someone die?
[Pours drink]
Nathaniel: Yes.
- I'm sorry for your loss.
Was it sudden?
- I think...
it was a long time coming for him,
but it felt sudden.
- Hmm... tell me about him.
Nathaniel: He was an architect.
It was what he wanted to be his whole life.
- Sad.
Nathaniel: He came from nothing. Worked his way up.
Loved God.
He wanted to build synagogues, eventually.
[Looks around]
I know that's not very popular around here.
[both chuckle]
One with colonnades that sing.
Parapets that practically pray.
Vaunted halls that draw the soul upward to God.
That's what God made him for...
or so he thought.
- He sounds like an ambitious guy.
What did he die of?
Nathaniel: Hubris.
It's me, by the way.
I'm the dead man in the story.
- Yeah, I got that.
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Nathaniel's story arc in this one episode is one of my favorites in the entire series. The episode is so packed, and the actor really sells it.
Nathaniel has completely come to the end of himself, is completely shattered of everything the thought his life would be, and is ready for Christ to use him.
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Matthew: I just--
[sighs]
In your obtuse language...
[Crudely draws a circle on the ground with his axe]
here's a circle--
It represents everything in the world
and all the people that have ever been.
[Draws a point outside the circle with his axe]
And that's me.
That's how I feel.
Phillip: Well said, good for you.
And, yes,
I've been living literally outside this circle with John the outcast for a couple years;
So... I can relate.
You're fine, Matthew.
Stick around, you're gonna be all right.
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The Matthew - Phillip "Bromance" is one of my favorite features of season 2, particularly episodes 2 and 3.
I'm very sad that it and the #Torah study story arcs were mostly dropped in the 3rd and 4th seasons.
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(Nathaniel's "Do You see me?" monologue under the fig tree cannot be quoted. It must be watched and digested whole. There is no other way.)
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Matthew: My house was bought with blood money.
My parents and I haven't spoken much in years.
And numbers didn't make the world clear anymore.
Phillip: You gave everything away to keep it.
- But it's uncomfortable when nobody likes me.
- If this Rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth, called you,
it means you already have everything you need for right now,
and He'll give you the rest in time.
- I just don't know what He sees in me.
He's a religious teacher,
and I know very little about religion.
- From what I understand, Jesus doesn't love everything about religion.
Matthew, what you think you know, it doesn't matter.
Only that Jesus chose you.
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Nathaniel: You sure know how to pick ‘em.
Phillip: He's not just anyone.
- You said that about the baptizer.
- And I was right.
But this is... more.
- Hmm.
- This is Who the baptizer has been preparing us for.
- Mm.
Phillip: Nathanael... He's The One.
Nathaniel: [Shakes head] The One?
Phillip: The One who Moses foretold, and the prophets said would come.
Nathaniel: THE... One?
Phillip: The One.
Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph.
Nathaniel: Nazareth?!
[laughing]
Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
Phillip: Come and see.
(...)
- Your whole life you've wanted to serve God,
to meet the Son of God, the King of Israel.
(...)
- He's like no Rabbi who ever has been or will be.
Nathaniel: I've never seen you talk like this.
I'm still hung up on the Nazareth of it all.
[chuckles]
Phillip: Come and see.
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Ok, the dialogue between Phillip and Nathaniel here is also freaking orbital.
Yoshi Barrigas absolutely knocked that role out of Earth's sphere of influence, and I may never get over the show replacing him with an otherwise excellent actor.
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End. Oh my God, I love this episode so much. It's so full of awesome, I could just go spastic trying to describe it all.
WATCH THIS, YOU HOSERS! IT'S INCREDIBLE!!!!
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