Going from memory - I'll have to track it down and watch it again - there are too many narrative parallels to be coincidental. For example, the idea of the hero going undercover and only revealing his identity to a select few.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
