YMMV / Testament: The Bible in Animation

• Angst? What Angst?: Noah and his family are all pretty chill that everyone on Earth except them has just died a horrible death. Though this is most likely because we drop in on them after two weeks have passed, meaning Noah and his family would have already mourned and moved on.
• Awesome Art: The animation was good all through the series, but the Garden of Eden part of "Creation and the Flood" is gorgeous. It was animated using stained glass which gave it an appropriately ethereal quality and made the Art Shift even more distressing when Adam and Eve were cast out and the style changed back to ordinary traditional animation.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening theme.
  • The "Elijah" episode uses the oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn so of course it ends up being this.
  • Two very sinister examples, Lucifer's leitmotif in "Creation and the Flood" and the dramatic music as the Angel of Death makes its visitation in "Moses."
• Spiritual Successor: To Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, right down to having some of the same actors, using the same styles and using an anthology format with each episode being a standalone adaptation of a Shakespearean play or tale from the Bible.
• Retroactive Recognition: The voices are generally provided by stage and radio actors, several of whom became quite well known afterwards, including Paul McGann, Bill Nighy, Roger Allam alongside well-known names such as Simon Callow and Robert Hardy.

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