Oh, wow! I had no idea that actor looked that way for real! Aw, that was kinda sad that he's always cast as a monster. Reading his words made me feel bad for him.
The impression I get about Mulder & Scully being 'different' in the Christian mythology episodes. It's like Duchovny plays Mulder as not being 'entirely there', as if part of his sensory apparatus is shut off, like he's dull-minded and blind. While Anderson plays Scully as being unusually alert, acutely taking in her full surroundings, like she's in a heightened state. Not 100% sure what this is meant to signal, but I think it's interesting.
This corresponds with what the priest tells her during her confession: that maybe she saw things Mulder didn't because she was meant to (presumably by God) while Mulder was not.
Imagine that church? If Gunnery Sergeant Hartman asked if you loved the Virgin Mary, then you better believe I’d say sir yes sir.. 🤣🤣 another great review.. 😎👍🏼
Role reversals are nice but we see that while Scully generally finds an alternative theory to oppose, Mulder just goes "Meh" and leaves. Also imagine writing the report on this one. "Yeah we got the kid and they kidnapped him, again and again and again and again. After that they tried to kill him and he just saved himself." That will earn a promotion.
Tired of boring unfulfilling sandwiches? Try all new stigmata jam! Just spread some over your bread for a truly divine meal. For best results use with holy wheat bread.
As soon as I saw R Lee Ermey, I had the immediate thought of him giving his speeches from Full Metal Jacket and how hilarious that would be. Then you go and do it, I'll chalk it up to 'great minds think alike".
I really liked Michael Barryman in this episode as not only was this not the typical role he plays but he also did a great job and was a very sympathetic character and I felt very bad that he was killed off in the end.
Must be nice to have stigmata to save you from having to do long division in front of the class. 😭😭 (Also, that haircut couldn't be more aggressively 90s.)
@JBSpookyReview one time I fell asleep with gum in my mouth, and to rectify this mistake, my dad decided to try his hand at hair artistry. So... I also had that haircut. For all of 1 day, before I went back to my mom's place, and she nearly had a heart attack before taking me to get it fixed. Needless to say, my father was no longer allowed to cut anyone's hair ever again. 😂
Berryman is a legend, if you haven’t seen him in the evil within, I highly suggest it, you would get a kick out of it, very psychological kinda existential
That episode has some similarity to S5E17, All Souls (or the other way around). The same, annoying disbelief from Mulder and Scully is fighting with her own, religious beliefs, also taking care of the poor kids.
03:40. "Millennium" reference since they used the Ouroboros so much in that show? 12:26. I'd call him out on this sh_t. "Ok, so you believe in bigfoot, aliens, Nessie, and Elvis Clones, but not the Abrahamic God? Since when did you become a skeptical fedoramancer?" 14:11. But it makes no sense. See above. Why is Mulder the cynic all of a sudden?
the jokes in this were better than the youtube average. it wasn't just a stigmata/ jam bit, it had the ad and the motto. the angry red Scully. like, some stuff just has to be an observation, like the "normal family stuff" line in the beginning, but it's done well, like the rest. -3/10.
I know it seems odd that Mulder would be the one to poo-poo the supernatural in some episodes, but it is totally in keeping with his atheistic worldview. Any time the case of the week had some sort of religious bend to it (and especially if the paranormal aspects of the case were tied to religiosity) he would become the skeptic, while Scully (with her religious background and faith) would be more amenable to belief.
There are a few words that cause my brain to reflex, flexflexflexflexflex, and Stigmata is one of them. Just can't shake the Ministry soundbite. Seems appropriate. Similar things happen with Vienna (which means nothing to me) and Barcelona (Such a beautiful horizon), but, thankfully, not every european city. Nothing bounces off Milton Keynes other than a profound sense of sadness and misery. Says something about that place that I've found no one who disagrees that the best thing to happen to Milton Keynes would be a small but angry nuke. What? No, that's relevant, that's a part of the episode. Anyway, thing about God episodes in X-Files is, you get into really sticky water (a.k.a Beaver Heaven) with the whole 'is Dog real?' thing, because that has implications up the wazoo, especially if you're specific. If you say the Catholics have it right (for example) then you must be saying everyone else has it wrong, and that's a dark and twisty path. Muslims, doomed, Jews, doomed, Hindus, doomed, Sikhs, doomed. Speaking of Christians, one of those is Hayden. If he married Panattiere, they'd have a confusing home, and if they converted to Sikhism, they'd have a couple of Hayden Sikhs. She's thirty four. Duck wee I'm old. It's eighteen years since 'Save the Cheerleader, Save the World'. EIGHTEEN. If Heroes lived in Milton Keynes it'd already be knocked up and living in a council flat on forty rothman's and a twelve pack of diamond white a day. What? No, that's less relevant I agree. Um, this episode? If you sat me down and asked me to sumarise as many X-Files episodes as I could remember this one wouldn't be one. There are way, way better ones about Scullini's faith (Beyond the Sealion leaps to mind) not really exploring what's going on is kinda annoying, and Michael Berryman, well, seems a shame because, to me, this episode really didn't break the typecasting at all - he was still cast because of his monstrous looks, and bless his heart, you haven't broken the mould when everything before AND after is still the same rabbit shape. (Cosmology joke there) I dunno, though, I don't think I've ever seen the Manberry as being monstrous in the first place. I mean he can be, but who can't? To me, even as a child he was just odd not frightening. Like my Uncle Cosmo when he'd put on a thong to go schnorkelling. Well, no, that was frightening, I take that back. Windham Earle is indeed where I know whatshisface from. As names go, a good one, though it is hard to picture the parents discussing names and settling on Windham. Sounds more like a glass cleaning product to me. Grubby, filthy windows? Don't clean 'em, Windham! I wonder if they didn't swap his first and last names around. Twin Peaks will always have a place close to my heart. Probably left lung. I was fifteen when that started airing, and Twin Peaks had an Audrey Horne. Plus it was well-good. The bifurcating thing bugs me. His clothes duplicate too? What happens when he unbifurcates? Can each bifurcation also bifurcate? What is one bifurcation learns something the other does not and then unbifurcate, does the unifurcate still know that? Does the one have memories of the both? If so, could Kevin not split a bunch of times and learn, say, Japanese like, all at once? If a bifurcated Kevin has a poop and the other does not, what is the poop status when they rejoin? What about a haircut? If they play rock-paper-katana, who wins? Yaarrrrr Lee-Ermey is always fun. Aside from FMJ my main image of him is the same character in Space: Above And Beyond, better known by it's acronym, AUDI. From X-Files DNA, sorta. And endless episodes of Guns Are Cool on Discovery. Never played a pirate and that is a shocking shamu. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, pretty sure the consensus is that the Romans nailed people up through the wrist, not the palm because it's a sturdier thingy, so, stigmata from the hands is something of a giveaway. I mean, also, Dog isn't real, but, yeah. War of the Coprophages is a 10/10, and Bobbie Phillips is fifty seven years old, and I hate the linear nature of time. 1996 was the year of perfectly optimized civilisation and it would have been nice to have realised that at the time. All downhill from there.
The more years go by, the more these religious themed eps annoy me. But only because I've seen this over & over. I never really got the feeling that they were intentionally trying to insult Christians. (Nor do I want to know if they were.) They just acted like they never went to a regular church (outside maybe Catholic) and listened to normal people talking. It was always some gibberish like, "you will come full circle to learn the truth" or whatever. Nobody talks like that. Regular Christians & Christian churches don't do the stuff we saw here. It just felt like they just took a bunch of creepy/religious-y elements and tossed them together with no rhyme or reason to it. Thermometer thing - HA! Looks like they researched medical stuff as much as they researched biblical stuff. It annoyed me character-wise that Mulder was willing to believe ANYTHING, yet was ALWAYS the skeptic when it came to the biblical God. But it was a bit realistic. People can be that way sometimes. The flip of the believer/skeptic dynamic with M&S worked for me. It didn't make a whole lot of sense for Mulder as a person. I did hate how he'd mock Scully for anything relating to her Catholic views. (Whatever, exactly, they were.) And he'd never support her on her crazy ideas, when she followed him to the ends of the earth for his. You sure could never mock anything he believed, in without him getting angry. I do want to smack him. But, again, real people can be inconsistent that way. I loved Kevin. And I loved Scully with kids. It really annoyed me when they were just lazy. There's no St. Ignatius in the Bible. This is one of those eps that didn't make a whole lot of logical sense. But then... so many were like that, LOL. I am such a logical person. It took me years to stop trying to figure it all out. I just had to enjoy each ep as a self contained thing. (Even the mytharc ones. That's it. Anything else just gave me a headache. Loved that person's review. Gotta love those geniuses on the internet. LOL! "... afraid that God is speaking. But that no one's listening." Yep.
I agree with everything you just said here. Mulder and Scully are both great with kids and yet look at what Chris Carter does to them when they finally have one....
I'm not a religious person and don't find it particularly interesting, so I've always found the religious themed episodes to be boring and uninteresting. I rarely revisit those and think I've only seen this episode once. The next episode, though, is definitely one of the greats and one of my favorites.
I tend to hate these religious episodes. I sometimes skip them on my blu-ray disc. I just find them a little boring and it seems like Carter never wants to include the darker more sinister side of religion. I will admit that I am an atheist but I don't have a problem with religion in movies and tv if it's treated realistically but it's always showing Christianity in a flowery perfect way that's kind of unsettling. I love Gillian in this episode. She does a fantastic job. Michael Berryman is a treasure. So great in The Hills have Eyes and other roles.
" I will admit that I am an atheist but I don't have a problem with religion in movies and tv if it's treated realistically but it's always showing Christianity in a flowery perfect way that's kind of unsettling." I don't know what planet you're on. Christianity is nearly always shown in a negative light.
Oh, wow! I had no idea that actor looked that way for real! Aw, that was kinda sad that he's always cast as a monster. Reading his words made me feel bad for him.
There was some other stuff he said as well about being bullied as a kid, but it was too sad.
@@JBSpookyReview Not surprising. Kids can be horrible to each other.
The impression I get about Mulder & Scully being 'different' in the Christian mythology episodes. It's like Duchovny plays Mulder as not being 'entirely there', as if part of his sensory apparatus is shut off, like he's dull-minded and blind. While Anderson plays Scully as being unusually alert, acutely taking in her full surroundings, like she's in a heightened state. Not 100% sure what this is meant to signal, but I think it's interesting.
Hmm I like how you put it.
This corresponds with what the priest tells her during her confession: that maybe she saw things Mulder didn't because she was meant to (presumably by God) while Mulder was not.
Mulder putting random substances in his mouth without hesitation is further proof that he’s an adult toddler 😂
I swear anytime he sees some unknown substance he just has to taste it.
It had been some time since I'd watched this one. Rewatching before watching this video made me want to smack him! WHO DOES THAT?! Gross!
LMAO
You had me at tub time with Scully
Hahaha I know right?
I recently re-watched this episode. The part when the guy jumps out the window always gets me! 😂
Haha he gives zero F's and just dives. It always cracks me up.
Imagine that church? If Gunnery Sergeant Hartman asked if you loved the Virgin Mary, then you better believe I’d say sir yes sir.. 🤣🤣 another great review.. 😎👍🏼
I would go every Sunday if he was giving the sermon.
Better be careful. The gates in real life may also remove those who offend his excellency. Great change of pace episode.
I'm not afraid, I can handle the dork. Yeah I like it too.
Scully's red face was great.
Haha she looked pissed. It took me a long time to figure out how to do it lol.
@@JBSpookyReview those little things are awesome. The medical doctor thing also. Good stuff
Well I appreciate the kind words.
Another great video, as always. I always get sad when the kid loses his mom.
It happens so suddenly.
Role reversals are nice but we see that while Scully generally finds an alternative theory to oppose, Mulder just goes "Meh" and leaves. Also imagine writing the report on this one. "Yeah we got the kid and they kidnapped him, again and again and again and again. After that they tried to kill him and he just saved himself." That will earn a promotion.
I wonder what Skinner must think when they hand in their reports.
I’ll always remember Michael Berryman playing the mutant biker on Weird Science.
He’s so awesome!
He's great in that as well.
Another great review JB, the Stigmata jam got a chuckle out of me
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Hahah these stupid things just pop in my head and I think it's so dumb that it might make someone chuckle.
I actually like Scully focused episodes too. Keep up the good work.
I enjoy them too. Thanks so much for watching.
how many times did Mulder and Scully loose Kevin. it becomes almost comical.
Haha they aren't great at watching kids.
As soon as I saw R Lee Ermey, I had the immediate thought of him giving his speeches from Full Metal Jacket and how hilarious that would be. Then you go and do it, I'll chalk it up to 'great minds think alike".
Haha I always worry I won't have anything interesting to add to the videos and then something like that falls in my lap.
I really liked Michael Barryman in this episode as not only was this not the typical role he plays but he also did a great job and was a very sympathetic character and I felt very bad that he was killed off in the end.
Yeah Michal does a great job in the episode, especially since he's playing against type.
My favorite Michael Barryman roles are in Weird Science and in the Motley Crue video Smokin' in the Boys Room
I forgot he was in weird science.
@@JBSpookyReview "Can we keep this... between us? I'd hate to lose my teaching job..."
Perfect Timing 👍🏾
I try.
Must be nice to have stigmata to save you from having to do long division in front of the class. 😭😭
(Also, that haircut couldn't be more aggressively 90s.)
I may or may not have had that haircut.
@JBSpookyReview one time I fell asleep with gum in my mouth, and to rectify this mistake, my dad decided to try his hand at hair artistry. So... I also had that haircut. For all of 1 day, before I went back to my mom's place, and she nearly had a heart attack before taking me to get it fixed.
Needless to say, my father was no longer allowed to cut anyone's hair ever again. 😂
Now that's what I call a sticky situation.
It was pretty sticky.
I love that the bad guy is Windom Earle from Twin Peaks
I wonder if that was on purpose. There was quite a bit of crossover between the two.
@@JBSpookyReview Well, I know Twin Peaks was a big influence on Chris Carter.
10:30. They need to bring this kid back so we know if he's Rosemary's Omen Baby or not...been about 30 years after all.
He's clearly the spawn of satan.
@JBSpookyReview Still needs to come back, though.
Berryman is a legend, if you haven’t seen him in the evil within, I highly suggest it, you would get a kick out of it, very psychological kinda existential
I'm not sure I've seen that one.
Next episode is one of my favorites as well
Yeah I love it.
One of my favorites
It's an underrated episode I think.
Yer ill see you in the episode after next
Alrighty.
That episode has some similarity to S5E17, All Souls (or the other way around). The same, annoying disbelief from Mulder and Scully is fighting with her own, religious beliefs, also taking care of the poor kids.
It's very similar.
Yeah, a 7 seems about right.
Great sermon, very prist.
Haha very prist indeed.
03:40. "Millennium" reference since they used the Ouroboros so much in that show?
12:26. I'd call him out on this sh_t. "Ok, so you believe in bigfoot, aliens, Nessie, and Elvis Clones, but not the Abrahamic God? Since when did you become a skeptical fedoramancer?"
14:11. But it makes no sense. See above. Why is Mulder the cynic all of a sudden?
Mulder flip flops when it comes to Scully and her faith.
the jokes in this were better than the youtube average.
it wasn't just a stigmata/ jam bit, it had the ad and the motto. the angry red Scully. like, some stuff just has to be an observation, like the "normal family stuff" line in the beginning, but it's done well, like the rest. -3/10.
Well I'm try, I'm no comedian or writer, but I do my best to make things entertaining. I appreciate the kind words though.
Wait, did scully not tell anyone she is a medical doctor in this episode? If not 0/10
Unfortunately no :(
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Thank you!
I know it seems odd that Mulder would be the one to poo-poo the supernatural in some episodes, but it is totally in keeping with his atheistic worldview. Any time the case of the week had some sort of religious bend to it (and especially if the paranormal aspects of the case were tied to religiosity) he would become the skeptic, while Scully (with her religious background and faith) would be more amenable to belief.
That's very true.
Perfect dig on Bill Gates, LMAO
I mean am I wrong?
There are a few words that cause my brain to reflex, flexflexflexflexflex, and Stigmata is one of them. Just can't shake the Ministry soundbite. Seems appropriate. Similar things happen with Vienna (which means nothing to me) and Barcelona (Such a beautiful horizon), but, thankfully, not every european city. Nothing bounces off Milton Keynes other than a profound sense of sadness and misery. Says something about that place that I've found no one who disagrees that the best thing to happen to Milton Keynes would be a small but angry nuke.
What? No, that's relevant, that's a part of the episode. Anyway, thing about God episodes in X-Files is, you get into really sticky water (a.k.a Beaver Heaven) with the whole 'is Dog real?' thing, because that has implications up the wazoo, especially if you're specific. If you say the Catholics have it right (for example) then you must be saying everyone else has it wrong, and that's a dark and twisty path. Muslims, doomed, Jews, doomed, Hindus, doomed, Sikhs, doomed. Speaking of Christians, one of those is Hayden. If he married Panattiere, they'd have a confusing home, and if they converted to Sikhism, they'd have a couple of Hayden Sikhs.
She's thirty four. Duck wee I'm old. It's eighteen years since 'Save the Cheerleader, Save the World'. EIGHTEEN. If Heroes lived in Milton Keynes it'd already be knocked up and living in a council flat on forty rothman's and a twelve pack of diamond white a day.
What? No, that's less relevant I agree.
Um, this episode? If you sat me down and asked me to sumarise as many X-Files episodes as I could remember this one wouldn't be one. There are way, way better ones about Scullini's faith (Beyond the Sealion leaps to mind) not really exploring what's going on is kinda annoying, and Michael Berryman, well, seems a shame because, to me, this episode really didn't break the typecasting at all - he was still cast because of his monstrous looks, and bless his heart, you haven't broken the mould when everything before AND after is still the same rabbit shape. (Cosmology joke there) I dunno, though, I don't think I've ever seen the Manberry as being monstrous in the first place. I mean he can be, but who can't? To me, even as a child he was just odd not frightening. Like my Uncle Cosmo when he'd put on a thong to go schnorkelling. Well, no, that was frightening, I take that back.
Windham Earle is indeed where I know whatshisface from. As names go, a good one, though it is hard to picture the parents discussing names and settling on Windham. Sounds more like a glass cleaning product to me. Grubby, filthy windows? Don't clean 'em, Windham! I wonder if they didn't swap his first and last names around. Twin Peaks will always have a place close to my heart. Probably left lung. I was fifteen when that started airing, and Twin Peaks had an Audrey Horne. Plus it was well-good.
The bifurcating thing bugs me. His clothes duplicate too? What happens when he unbifurcates? Can each bifurcation also bifurcate? What is one bifurcation learns something the other does not and then unbifurcate, does the unifurcate still know that? Does the one have memories of the both? If so, could Kevin not split a bunch of times and learn, say, Japanese like, all at once? If a bifurcated Kevin has a poop and the other does not, what is the poop status when they rejoin? What about a haircut? If they play rock-paper-katana, who wins?
Yaarrrrr Lee-Ermey is always fun. Aside from FMJ my main image of him is the same character in Space: Above And Beyond, better known by it's acronym, AUDI. From X-Files DNA, sorta. And endless episodes of Guns Are Cool on Discovery. Never played a pirate and that is a shocking shamu.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot, pretty sure the consensus is that the Romans nailed people up through the wrist, not the palm because it's a sturdier thingy, so, stigmata from the hands is something of a giveaway. I mean, also, Dog isn't real, but, yeah.
War of the Coprophages is a 10/10, and Bobbie Phillips is fifty seven years old, and I hate the linear nature of time. 1996 was the year of perfectly optimized civilisation and it would have been nice to have realised that at the time. All downhill from there.
I always love your rants haha.
I didn't understand very well, the villain gave him Jerusalem syndrome, but instead of becoming a good character from the Bible, he became the devil?
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Hot damn you're moving on up.
The more years go by, the more these religious themed eps annoy me. But only because I've seen this over & over. I never really got the feeling that they were intentionally trying to insult Christians. (Nor do I want to know if they were.) They just acted like they never went to a regular church (outside maybe Catholic) and listened to normal people talking. It was always some gibberish like, "you will come full circle to learn the truth" or whatever. Nobody talks like that. Regular Christians & Christian churches don't do the stuff we saw here. It just felt like they just took a bunch of creepy/religious-y elements and tossed them together with no rhyme or reason to it.
Thermometer thing - HA! Looks like they researched medical stuff as much as they researched biblical stuff.
It annoyed me character-wise that Mulder was willing to believe ANYTHING, yet was ALWAYS the skeptic when it came to the biblical God. But it was a bit realistic. People can be that way sometimes. The flip of the believer/skeptic dynamic with M&S worked for me. It didn't make a whole lot of sense for Mulder as a person. I did hate how he'd mock Scully for anything relating to her Catholic views. (Whatever, exactly, they were.) And he'd never support her on her crazy ideas, when she followed him to the ends of the earth for his. You sure could never mock anything he believed, in without him getting angry. I do want to smack him. But, again, real people can be inconsistent that way.
I loved Kevin. And I loved Scully with kids.
It really annoyed me when they were just lazy. There's no St. Ignatius in the Bible.
This is one of those eps that didn't make a whole lot of logical sense. But then... so many were like that, LOL. I am such a logical person. It took me years to stop trying to figure it all out. I just had to enjoy each ep as a self contained thing. (Even the mytharc ones. That's it. Anything else just gave me a headache.
Loved that person's review. Gotta love those geniuses on the internet. LOL!
"... afraid that God is speaking. But that no one's listening."
Yep.
I agree with everything you just said here. Mulder and Scully are both great with kids and yet look at what Chris Carter does to them when they finally have one....
@@JBSpookyReview DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THAT RANT.
I'm not a religious person and don't find it particularly interesting, so I've always found the religious themed episodes to be boring and uninteresting. I rarely revisit those and think I've only seen this episode once. The next episode, though, is definitely one of the greats and one of my favorites.
I'm not very religious either, but I appreciate the ideas. the next episode is fantastic though.
I tend to hate these religious episodes. I sometimes skip them on my blu-ray disc. I just find them a little boring and it seems like Carter never wants to include the darker more sinister side of religion. I will admit that I am an atheist but I don't have a problem with religion in movies and tv if it's treated realistically but it's always showing Christianity in a flowery perfect way that's kind of unsettling. I love Gillian in this episode. She does a fantastic job. Michael Berryman is a treasure. So great in The Hills have Eyes and other roles.
" I will admit that I am an atheist but I don't have a problem with religion in movies and tv if it's treated realistically but it's always showing Christianity in a flowery perfect way that's kind of unsettling."
I don't know what planet you're on. Christianity is nearly always shown in a negative light.
Michael Berryman is great and I was glad to see this was his favorite role.
@@JBSpookyReview This was a nice change for him and I'm so glad he got to show his range. He is a fantastic actor and a very sweet guy
Please stop harping so much on tiny production mistakes. Nobody cares. Episodic television in the 90s was hard.
Well unfortunately I enjoy pointing out the little things because I've see the show a million times and it's all for fun.