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Chris Carter’s DVD commentary on Babylon:

I believe that some people were, uh, taken aback by some of the controversial ideas we, uh, we, uh, uh, delved into in this episode, but I think by the end they would have seen that it’s all about love, uh, and the love between the jihadist and his mother, and the love between Scully and her mother, and Scully and her son, named William, whose parentage was uncertain and maybe alien and who was given away for his own safety, and uh, the love between Miller and Einstein, who are, you know, who present a kind of mirrored version of young Mulder and Scully, which I’m not sure all viewers picked up on on the first watch, and finally, uh, the special love between Mulder and Scully, as you can see in this scene here, and I, uh, I heard this song by The Lumineers a few years back on a commercial, and the whole time I thought, you know, “when I make more X-Files, I’ve got to be sure to use that somehow.” My musical tastes, like all my other tastes, have free rein on this show, you know. And going back to what might be controversial to some, I think, you know, people aren’t used to seeing issues of faith and God addressed on television in this way, you know, uh, in conjunction with paranormal phenomena and political current events that make it such a hospitable mood in this country for discussing the machinations of those in power. But I’ve always, you know, I love episodes about Christians who are fundamentalist miracle-workers but actually running a cruel hoax, and I love episodes about wacky Christian cultists who live underneath Civil War battlefields and kill women, and I love episodes about Christian millenialists who try to kidnap children or at least raise the dead, and I love episodes about fundamentalist Christian snake-handlers, but really, uh, I think, uh, that those episodes explored questions like IS GOD REAL and IS GOD AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE and these kinds of controversial ideas, with our believer, Mulder, and our skeptic, Scully, and as you can see, they, uh, they have different points of view on those fundamental questions. But in my latest two works, I think I’ve dug even deeper by asking questions like, “What kind of person becomes a pedophile?” and the answer there, clearly, is “a Catholic priest,” but also provocative questions like, “Are nuns in hospitals all part of a conspiracy to kill children?” which, I think, you know, you can see what a truly controversial question that might be. But my work has culminated now in this new episode, which I think you’ll find, after sufficient viewings, is not bizarre and revoltingly silly and offensive, but actually a consideration of fundamental questions like, “Is that Muslim on TV a terrorist?” the answer being, of course, “yes,” or perhaps, “Whence cometh hate unto the world?” the answer being, “by faith, or maybe suggestion, or I’m not sure, but that is something to do with the theme of this episode.”

And here, uh, here is, uh, my favorite scene of the episode, and here are Mulder and Scully really digging in to some of these controversial questions about faith, which are important to them because, as, uh, Mulder is the skeptic here, and Scully the believer, it offers, uh, a rich palette on which to ask the real questions, and here’s the dialogue–

And there you have it… The question of our times. Not many television writers today will address such controversy. And I think viewers who, uh, who are looking for something in today’s television landscape that asks these real questions during this mood in the country will find something, uh, something of interest here.

STANDS AND APPLAUDS.

OMG THIS IS EVERYTHING I LOVE IN A PHOTOSET

David Duchovny on his favorite moment of The X-Files revival, Total Film UK, March 2016. (x)

....but where this takes place is really the treat. ;)