{"id":124,"date":"2009-04-01T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/04\/big-love-small-splash.html"},"modified":"2009-04-01T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:58:36","slug":"big-love-small-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/04\/big-love-small-splash.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Love, small splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heated discussion about the Big Love temple scene died down pretty quickly after it aired, but here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2009\/03\/big-love-big-questions-and-big-answers.html\">an interview at the LA Times with one of the show&#8217;s creators<\/a> that gives one view of things.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can read the whole interview if you&#8217;re a fan of the show (one nugget: there will be a Season 4). Here&#8217;s the paragraph of interest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>You got a lot of press about your depiction of a Mormon temple ceremony before the episode even aired. What was the reaction like afterwards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was very interesting, because I think the furor died down very quickly. There were a lot of people, first of all, the general response, the non-Mormon, non-conservative religious response was very very positive, because we did what we really said in our statement, we were trying to create a moment of great beauty and great art. Now, it could be debated whether or not the Mormons are always going to feel that we crossed a boundary by showing a secret ceremony. And that&#8217;s always going to feel like it&#8217;s a tremendous disrespect to them. I don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s going to change. &#8230; The real thing was that the furor died down almost immediately, and I only have to assume that was because we handled it with so much respect and dignity, in context of it being a very sacred, very holy ceremony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Ellipsis in original.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heated discussion about the Big Love temple scene died down pretty quickly after it aired, but here&#8217;s an interview at the LA Times with one of the show&#8217;s creators that gives one view of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polygamy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Love, small splash - 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