I only listened to the first season, and a few others if I found them to be relevant with my life. For example (not that it's relevant with my life) but I found the one about pornography extremmely well written and done. They touched the aspect really well. And though it wasn't explicit or nothing it was really brought to the point--something that I believe Odyssey should adress. Why bring the topic up after it's too late for most of these kids?
Unfortunatly, I find the diologue in the series really quite phony, and though I realise that most Christian programming will be like that, I'm still grateful for Odyssey NOT being like that.
Reuben get your gun was really borderline. On the one hand, I didn't think the storyline was bad whatsoever, the only problem was that they did something Odyssey would have NEVER had done, and that is "show a kid trying to shoot another kid". That's really bad, even on radio. I mean, you rarely even see that in movies, too. (minus the patriot)
I wouldv'e presented it much different. I wouldv'e had them showing to be teens, because that wouldv'e been much less close to home for many of these kids, and showing a teenager with a gun and trying to shoot someone else is much more common than showing that kids are doing it.
In one way, maybe it was good that they got it off the air. But I wouldv'e just replaced the voices to teenagers and added a parental warning to the beggining--and voila, the episode is much less influencial. Kids with guns--wow Odyssey would never do that
(except for "Buried Sin"...uh...yeah.)
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