Reviews for The Focus Group

[DracoErrarus]

Hmm, looks like the entire review has been taken over by Talkingtrousers's comment. I guess I'll join in.

Just to keep things clear here, let me speak from a Christian perspective. Most Christians do not celebrate the Passover because it is innately a Jewish holiday. The slaughtered lamb represented a substitution for sin, as it does throughout the Old Testament, but the death of Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice and substitution, never to have to be repeated. That's why in the New Testament you see the apostle Paul saying that it doesn't matter anymore whether you celebrate holidays, as long as what you're doing is for the Lord, Jesus Christ.

This, however, is what irks me about Easter. I'm all for bunnies, eggs, and lots of chocolate, but it never seemed right to me that this would be celebrated alongside Christ's resurrection. I don't mind however non-Christians want to celebrate Easter, but Christians that let Easter Bunnies overshadow Jesus are only depriving their kids, and themselves. If I could change the calendar, I'd keep both, but not on the same day. I'm just not up for "sugar coating." At the same time, I think that discipline has nothing to do with what holidays you celebrate. Really, Talkingtrousers, there are more serious issues when it comes to kids and discipline.

<phew> Okay, I finally feel like I can comment on the video!

The animation is pretty good, and funny. The idea of a calendar companies deciding holidays is funny by itself. The sound wasn't amazing, but it seems better than most give credit for. It didn't distract me at all, at least.

My only concern is, why hate on slaughtering a lamb? People do it every day so we can haz cheezburgers, and even in your video, the "Easter" group was eating a ham.

Overall, not bad and I look forward to more.

[Mekka23]

The animation wasn't that good, but the audio annoyed me.. so much. Maybe get a better quality microphone?

[Revolvermeaney]

Too smegging true, excellent vid.

[yourmom1357]

@talkingtrousers are you fucking kidding me? you must be one religious prick to be able to submit an entire review ripping on what people believe in. People can choose to believe in the commercialized versions of holidays, and the religious. It's just people like YOU who choose to be dicks about it.

[Unaltor]

@talkingtrousers
Let me preface this with, I am not religious at all, and try to look at both sides of religion.
I agree with you in some respects. The Easter Bunny is just stupid. It does not come from any religion, some make the argument that it is based on pagan beliefs. That argument is false, pagans do celebrate fertility around Easter because it is spring, however, there isn't a bunny handing out sweets anywhere in their history.
As for the Christen take on Easter, I believe that this video makes some good points. The Old Testament was pretty messed up. God was much more vicious and bloodthirsty compared to the benevolent God of the New Testament. This video does a good job of pointing out some of the failings of a book made thousands of years ago, yet there are and always will be steadfast believers who will follow it to the grave. That is their choice and I believe we must respect that. That doesn't mean that we can't poke fun at it, like this video does, it just means that we can't be abusive towards those who speak their beliefs or minds (I am looking at you FluffyDemon), at least not in good moral standing.

As for the video, as I said above, it touches on some good points, although it uses a strawman argument to prove it's point. I would prefer a slightly more balanced presentation. The voice acting was ok, that stuff doesn't bother me as much as it does some people. The jokes were good and I had a nice laugh. i see room for improvement, but you are still doing quite well for yourself.