New X-Files mini series discussion

[Clueless Morgan]

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

I recognized the Pieta pose instantly and thought it was a strange mixed message of religion, seeing as how the Pieta is Mary and Jesus and in the show the dying guy and his mother here Muslim.

What did you guys think of it?

I thought it was fun and interesting. I like the Mulder/Scully doppelgangers (the woman more than the man), and I liked the bit about the placebo pill and whatnot, but there were aspects of the episode that I didn't especially enjoy and thought were heavy handed.