I was also in time to see Moses find Sayyid’s body and cry over it.

Wow, what a bunch of mealy-mouthed moralizing in this remake. I turned it back on again later, and saw that Moses was stoning his wife and friend, and turned it off in disgust.

Yeah, the laws are there. And so is the Talmud, creating a huge buffer between telling us to stone adulterers and, gee, actually doing it.

I’m going to watch the Chuck Heston version to get this bad taste out of my mind. At least his Moses wasn’t paralyzed by indecision and moral quandaries.

Well, at least they didn’t make him shave his head.

I don’t know, lawhawk. I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t trying to follow the original script from 2,500 years ago.

Just as an FYI, for the past four years, one of the exercises I’ve given my fourth-graders around Passover (this is religious school, calm down) is to create their own ten plagues.

The overwhelming majority concern bodily functions.

Which proves my contention that you can never go wrong telling fart jokes to nine-year-olds.

Heck, with Naveen Andrews involved, couldn’t they have borrowed the black cloud from Lost to be a suitable standin for the Angel of Death killing the firstborn?

Substantively, I was wondering when was it made clear that the slaves were actually Hebrews or Israelites? I didn’t hear any mention of that.

And don’t get me started on that moralizing or the possibility that Moses might not make it across the Red Sea because some Egyptian had him at spearpoint (even if it is Sayid).

Why does everyone speak with a British accent?

It is not much different from the Hollywood movies where supposed Italians speak English with Italian accent, Germans speak English with German one, etc…

Actually, they all use a variety of Yiddish accent for all languages, since no one knows better…