I do not care at all for how Moses was played by William Houston. Moses comes across as possessed and unnervingly intense, compared to Gary Oliver's Abraham, who was kind, fatherly, and full of faith. Worse, this take on Moses seems to be strangely arrogant. The way Moses responds after his encounter with the burning bush ("By God's power, *I* will free my people") seems to put emphasis on Moses's actions rather than God's action through Moses, and it's not at all how this episode went in the Bible.
I have a few small squabbles about production choices - cutting out important plot material like explaining how the Hebrews ended up in Egypt via Joseph, or how the 600,000 Hebrews are depicted as like 100 extras, but these are minor can be forgiven. The screenwriters have limited time and limited budget to tell the story of a very long book, and they're going to have to cut some stuff that I'll think is important. But this version of Moses and this telling of the Exodus feels like it completely missed the point and gets too much stuff wrong.
I have a few small squabbles about production choices - cutting out important plot material like explaining how the Hebrews ended up in Egypt via Joseph, or how the 600,000 Hebrews are depicted as like 100 extras, but these are minor can be forgiven. The screenwriters have limited time and limited budget to tell the story of a very long book, and they're going to have to cut some stuff that I'll think is important. But this version of Moses and this telling of the Exodus feels like it completely missed the point and gets too much stuff wrong.
