YMMV / Moses the Lawgiver

• Awesome Music: Ennio Morricone’s score, particularly the title theme and "Israel".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Series' retelling of the biblical incident where Zipporah circumcises her son to save Moses. It is quite disturbing with the child's screaming.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Bithia dies seemingly from cancer. Mariangeta Melato would die of cancer about thirty-six years later.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Yosef Shiloach (Dathan) and Aharon Ipale (Joshua) plays slaves to the Pharaoh. On the year of the Series' broadcast, Shiloach would play the Pharaoh in the TV film The Story of Jacob and Joseph. Ipale would play the Pharaoh in the first two films of The Mummy Trilogy, The History Channel's The Bible miniseries and The Ten Commandments: The Musical.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Egyptian soldiers collecting the male Israelite toddlers and infants, putting them in caged wagons to be carted off into the Nile River and drowned. The scenes of the encaged children crying for their mothers as the latter are forcibly separated (especially one scene of one mother holding her toddler's hands between the bars).
  • The aforementioned 'Zipporah circumcises her son' scene. The storm sound effects, Zipporah's initial intention to kill her son (instead of compromising by just circumcizing him, which isn't exactly a good thing either), the child crying for his mother. Disturbing.
• Sequel Displacement: If one views Jesus of Nazareth as a sequel, then Moses the Lawgiver is less familiar to people compared to its popular successor.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The Stock Footage of the Sea of Reeds returning to drown the Egyptians. One clip of a tidal wave is stretched, standing out from the rest of the footage.
  • A scene of an Egyptian horseman getting splashed off his steed is repeated three times.
  • The scene of the Golden Idol worshipper being thrown off a cliff to his death. It is clearly a dummy.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Dathan’s wife. Her victimization by the Egyptian overseer leads to Dathan’s attack & subsequent discipline, causing Moses to kill said Egyptian. For such a catalyst, she is last seen with Dathan in the celebration of the Sea passing, making no further appearances as Dathan causes trouble. The Burgess novelization has her captured during a raid, never to be seen again.

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