What did you think?

I understand what you mean, toodlerue. I know some changes have to happen to speed up the pace for TV. But some changes seem unnecessary.

No two persons ever watch the same movie.

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I have heard many great reviews about the book. While I have not yet read it myself to compare it to the movie, I was just not impressed with this mini-series. I was excited to see the previews for it and knew that it was an adaptation of a novel about Dinah as soon as I saw the title, but it just did not quite deliver. Part one was okay. I liked the background of Jacob and how he came to have four wives and how out of their polygamous circumstances they developed sisterhood. For some reason though, part two dragged on. As I watched the film, I could tell that they were trying too hard to modernize the female lead. Dinah walked through life as though she was completely disconnected from her culture and the beliefs of her people as they shaped their identity. It was as though they put Elizabeth Bennett from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in the old testament and watched her life unravel while rebelling against what she felt to be oppression and control. Because this agenda was so obvious I was not convinced I should be rooting for her. If anything her mother was my favorite character out of them all.

Not that I would know, but I thought that the author was a mormon (at least that is what I think I read once). That being said the movie had strong feminist messages within the patriarchal society being portrayed and there was a great deal of idol worship. Both of these elements were presented positively, as if to say "Yahweh and his patriarchs are so mean". It was like the women were bonding through their secret rejection against the God of Jacob, a God who favors men. Most bible related films in hollywood have taken this popular anti-religious approach these days, but it is getting old in my opinion. I did not hate it, but it just was not something I would watch again.