sherlock ( )

Date: June 26, 2014 07:04PM Posted by:Date: June 26, 2014 07:04PM

Part 4:



- showing them street contacting now. Comment that no full days off each year

- mention of paying 10% of your income to the church and need to wear special underwear. Interviewer is asking elders about Gs and snr comp is refusing to talk about it (quite a smug guy from Switzerland). Another shot of Garments!

- more door knocking and no one is interested

- focus on being in companion's presence 100%. Not allowed to contact friends, watch TV etc

- interviewer wants to speak with elder Field alone but snr comp is right by his side. Looks very weird. Programme makers emphasising how odd this is. Interviewer laughs a bit off screen about how odd this is.

- snr comp is coming across badly as very controlling. Interviewer refers to him as 'minding' Elder Field. He's no doubt the sort of comp you'd want to punch in the face.

- shot of Richard sitting outside the door observing! What on earth were TSCC PR thinking by having him watch every part of the filming? Didn't they realise that the programme makers would pick up on this and show it as being completely controlling of a young person?



And that's all folks. Programme makers certainly went out of their way to emphasise post-edit some of the very odd things about the church / and particularly the controlling nature of leaders and mission comps. The church has really come across badly in my opinion and I think The programme makers have purposefully given them the middle finger by their edit. No doubt about it, leaders and PR will NOT be happy with this programme. No sense of bringing joy to people and a young missionary that appears to have been prised from his family and totally controlled in an alien environment.



Well done Channel 4 for not bowing to TSCC PR wishes.