Oh, wait. On reading this thread again, it seems to me that there may be something more to the thread than concordizing. A higher meaning, if you will. Especially because the higher part of the thread has the true meaning while the lower part is just me making bad jokes.
I am certain that the episodes of Xavier: Renegade Angel are chock full of the peanuts of deeper meaning. Sometimes you can tell what is going on and sometimes it's hard. The problem is that the philosophy of those meanings is based on re-interpretation of everyday communication, rejection of authority, and the malleability of "reality". And when you think that way, creating an clear, understandable moral is kind of counter to everything you hold dear. You just have to kind-of watch for the big movements in the show and ignore the details. I think the first episode is the easiest to understand, so you can try out your Master degree in English Lit. on that first. Or you can listen to the commentary of the first episode on the DVD, but I think that guy is a total chode.
And I don't think that the fact that we can't always get at the meaning that the show writers were inspired by prevents us from having valid meanings of our own. And sometimes there really isn't a hard and fast interpretation. It's kind of like abstract art, in that it communicates emotion. In "Damnesia Vu", there is the scene of bar code guy shooting animals, and there isn't any obvious intellectual means of interpreting it. But Columbine evokes certain emotions and corporatism evokes certain emotions and theological epistemology evokes certain emotions and you can mix them up and get a feeling from the scene.
There are discussions on most episodes in this forum. Take a look and see how we argue about meanings.
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