themorg wrote:
Joan of Arc - worked on a farm and lived in a violent time = plausible warrior (to me)
Joanierrules - knows how to avoid a Friends boy friend's grey penis and how to blog = Epic Fail
That was the whole point! The story wasn't meant to be taken as serious as you guys are taking it, cmon! It was a comedy with some somber tones chucked in at the end. Granted, if you missed this then the fault lies in either the story or the production I think, but I for one definitely "got it."
Did anyone ever see that terrible Steve Carell movie "Evan Almighty" where he plays a Congressmen turned modern day Noah? That's the kind of attitude in this story, but joanierules pulls the humor off much more cleverly.
The real story of Joan of Arc is crazy enough and I remember thinking God must've transferred military knowledge, strategy, etc by Matrix style download into Joan's mind, like in the story. Of course, it's almost equally amazing if you nix God all together and just think of Joan as a super charismatic/entrepreneurial lunatic who was able to raise and lead an army based on sheer confidence, magnetism and personality.
Displace that into our time, with blogging and the mountains of silliness that come with life as a teenage girl in America, and you've pretty much got yourself a great sitcom or movie pilot. What kind of ridiculous circumstances could ever allow a blathering American teenage girl (I got the impression she was maybe college-age actually) to fly to France and actually convince people to join her army and descend upon England in a modern Holy War? This girl should be excited about vanilla skim lattes and going to see Fergie in concert, not burning cities down to the ground.
Very funny how the blog entries went between lame surveys and typical blog flame wars to finding "holy bazookas" and exacting God's vengeance on the British. Kudos to Mamatas for very authentically pulling off/parodying the stylistic nature of an female early 20 something's blog. Ashamed to say even my old blog had a few reflective "Lime Cool-Aid Summer" type entries (sanz battlefield news, sadly)
Also kudos to Naomi Mercer, who filled in Norm's bye week on narration with a very creative, spunky and convincing read. We all know DC doesn't mess around when it comes to a story's telling and production. Those standards make mediocre stories magnificent and magnificent stories majestic. Ms. Mercer sells this story with the ease of a professional, her timing and inflection dead-on. Complimented with Norm's musical backdrops (poor Norm will never find someone to match him/understudy there) this story was one of my favorites in a while.