> If you'll think back, John doesn't actually > *perform* any of the miracles attributed to > him in the series. They just happen around > him, and not by his design. He seems at times > as befuddled by them as anyone else.
-----Actually if you think back, near the end of the series John shows up again and again more and more as a sort of all knowing messiah figure. Especially, and no surprise, to the hard to reach women of the series. While at first he seems untrained and rather innocent and is a mere antagonist, later he bocomes very much full of himself and starts to drive the action as the main protagonist, especially around the -videotape- incident. Thus I must disagree. I found that it in fact is about the incarnation of a messiah figure who, like the big fish that small fish can feel for miles away, does start wreaking superlative perception changes in the basic environment, even for the 'hopeless.' I can see maybe why you like the show because it's so much like your Rama Zen Master. Myself, I find it to be an entirely Christist fantasy devoid of Christist symbols. Due to having a figure who does manifest the premier wave of potential. It tries to show how 'Christ will reurn in a cloud like a bolt of lightning from the east to the west,' without all the associated symbolic baggage. I think I understand that maybe it's fascinating for a how such an event will manifest itself to a traditionally clueless or hopeless lot, but it leaves little in terms of real suggestion as to whether such a spiritual period can be developed without reliance upon some divine personality. As clueless as that personality seems. I think back on old nanu nanu face Robin Williams in Mork and Mindy. I personally prefer the relationship of the Alien in Amanda and the Alien. Or world according to Garp, each of which at least doesn't hide its meaning with mere senseless ambiguity.
