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O tempora! O mores!

Not if there’s more than one?

YESSS, hahaha. This (and the religious episodes in general) bug me so much because of how little sense they make — and how totally in the dark they seem about it not making any sense. The only really decent (imaginatively/religiously) religious episode was “Signs and Wonders” in the 7th season, written by Jeffrey Bell, in homage to Flannery O’Connor. You really think the show would have made more use of Southern Gothic.

The worst part of this episode is when Mulder and Scully are in the motel room discussing bilocation. Scully: “How Kevin was able to be in two places at once … just like St. Ignatius was able to do in the Bible.” Mulder: “That was in the Bible. It’s a parable, it’s a metaphor for the truth, not the truth itself.”

Augggggghhhhh. There are two major St. Ignatius’s — St. Ignatius of Antioch lived in the 1st century and his letters are some of the first documents of the early Church in the first generation after the apostles, but he’s not in “the Bible.” And there’s no tradition of bilocation associated with him. St. Ignatius of Loyola (16th century) is so far from being “in the Bible” its not even funny! In any case there’s no tradition of him having bilocated, anyway. And Mulder — parables are the moralistic stories Jesus told. Nothing else in the Bible — whether you believe it’s true or not — is called a parable.

This whole exchange is so bad I don’t understand how it made it off the page. Didn’t they have any editors with even a modicum of religious literacy?

I love your work, and it’s so fun to see people experience and discuss the show again. Kudos!

I think she’s saying exactly what you described. Most confessional rooms today set up a kneeler with a divider in the room by the door, so as you walk in you can either confess behind the divider or in a chair facing the priest. Most of the times in movies they seem to try and use a traditional confessional, since it is admittedly much cooler.

This one was not my FIRST episode but it is the earliest-PRODUCED I saw (that is, I joined middle of Season 3 and caught this during a rerun week after seeing later episodes in the season). I think my actual first-VIEWED episode was Pusher.

…Why would people go to a movie in order to shout at the screen? Isn’t that one of the pleasures of watching it at home?