New X-Files mini series discussion

[Aroura]

So, last night's episode certainly was loaded with many interesting messages.

I wanted to point out that when the woman was holding the body of the terrorist on the boat, I thought at first she was death crossing him over the river Styx.  However, later when we see that the woman was the mother, and then when Moulder is having flashbacks and talking about motherly love, a lightbulb went off in my head.  I used to study art quite a lot, and I turned to my husband and said, "They were posed like the Pieta!"  I went and took a screen clip of it, and then compared.  I'm right.  

From the show, the Muslim mother holding her dying son:



The Pieta



Are the Christians having a cow yet that a the mother of an Islamic terrorist who was part of a bomb plot, even if he did not detonate his in the end because he repented at the last moment, was portrayed as mother Mary holding the body of Christ?
(There are some minor differences, such as the head placement, but I argue the clothing, and the mother's left hand help open, the draping of the arms and legs make it clear this was the image they wanted to invoke)

Despite, or perhaps because of, the religious themes, I loved this episode.  I thought it was well handled.  The themes were well interwoven with the other detectives, belief being like taking a placebo, the effect still being real, even if the drug is not.  Muslims portrayed in both sympathetic and monstrous lights, but not inherently different that Christians in the end.  The need for all peoples to adopt some common "language" so we can learn to get along.  I really liked it.

What did you guys think of it?