The religious episode X-Files that all made them crazy

According to Chris Snellgrove
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X-files He threw the envelope from the beginning, but it usually meant more focusing on things like anti -government plot and monsters on rough out. However, transressive stories rarely affected religion and the show generally respected the object. But there is one early exception: “Miracle Man”, the episode of the season 1 on religion that even offended many people who did it.

Miracle Man

“Miracle Man” was an episode aimed at the healer of faith, who seemingly has the ability to repair the disease and even raise dead. But when someone he recovered ends with dying, Mulder and Scully must explore the case. Their discoveries lead to more than one character questioning their faith, but this strange case eventually ends up the will of man than God’s will.

Not everyone who worked on “Miracle Man” enjoyed how this episode depicted religion. For example, the coecutive producer Glen Morgan said, “To tell you the truth, there are a lot of people for whom (Christianity) their faith, and I would have a little more respect for it.” The architects of this episode came out of the way to make sure that the story respects believers and their beliefs.

This episode was written by Showrunner Chris Carter And the supervision of producer Howard Gordon, and he later pointed out that “Miracle Man” is a “show about faith, possibilities … There is the power of faith”. For this reason: “We immediately set out to not make obvious, which should make these people into bufffon.” In this way the show was successful. No matter whether you like it X-files You have to admit the episode that it gives its spiritual characters the agency and dignity.

But part of what Godon liked “Miracle Man” is something that many viewers would most likely hate: an analogy of episodes with Jesus Christ. Most of the episode depicts the character of Samuel as a kind of healer of faith for miracles, but his story (spoilers, sweetheart!) Ends when people who think he is a criminal beat him to death. The idea of ​​being falsely convicted and eventually killed for someone else’s transitions is a clear reference to Jesus, but some fans thought that this display was a little sacramental.

Fans who hated this scene could calm down that Fox entered to make things a little less offended. Episode director Michael Lange said he shot a scene where Samuel’s dead body appeared through a silhouette in “Crucifix Pose”. This particular shot was finally censored, which caused Lange to be stable: “Even the bold Fox network couldn’t handle it.”

And legendary X-files Composer Mark Snow even seemed to be slightly angry in this episode, albeit because it eventually influenced his own work. Later he pointed out that “Miracle Man” had “about 20 minutes” of original music, because the rest of the sound accompaniment of the episode dominated “a lot of Gospecly, Organcy, Evangelist Bible-Thomping things I didn’t do. “This helped to get scenes with believers of episodes to make them feel much more authentic, but it is true that in this unconventional episode of the episode does not have more scary vibrations of Snow.

Looking back, “Miracle Man” is quite in the middle of the road X-files episode. It has a unique assumption and moves the story Mulder/Samantha forward, but sometimes it also feels a bit of color. As usual, production stories are a bit more interesting behind the scenes, because they reveal how much a story -based story was divided by the show creative staff. Fortunately, it seemed that the show was learned and future episodes were respected by religion, including the depiction of Scully’s own surprising faith.