Jer3miah

Before I began watching Jer3miah, I had an image in my head of what I thought the series was going to be like—the actual series was nothing like I thought it would be. To admit, I was very confused at first, trying to put the puzzle pieces together. I wondered if its goal was doing a more in-depth adaptation of Joseph Smith, but then after he received the box and was given three “commandments”, I realized their goal wasn’t so much of an identical story of Joseph Smith, but more of what the review suggested about focusing on LDS themes. During the video, when Jeremiah is going to the place no one was supposed to know about, throughout the scene, I thought about some of the struggles Joseph Smith had to go through. Then there was the encounter with the man, and I paralleled it with Nephi, when he has to slay Laban—the video even quoted Isaiah 55, when the Lord talks about how our ways are not His—the experience would’ve been very traumatic to Nephi as it was something he had never done nor thought about doing; the video portrayed it very different than current Church videos portray the experience with Nephi. Another aspect I found interesting is after Claire and Jeremiah get kidnapped: in the following episode, it references Abraham’s trial, which I didn’t connect until after it was brought up. I find it interesting that the series was able to make modern-day parallels with scripture stories (even though some of them are a little farfetched.