Last season on “Glee,” the writers, via primary character Will Schuester, made an inexcusable (but very unintentional) math error when discussing a plan to raise money with salt water taffy.
On Wednesday’s “American Horror Story,” which comes from “Glee” creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, an even more glaring error emerged–a blatant fallacy regarding the term “Immaculate Conception.”
Granted, it seems petty to address such a conceptual error, given the obvious liberty the show takes with historical storytelling (evidenced by passing its own theories for the deaths of The Black Dahlia and Sal Mineo), but the error was blatant and, frankly, unnecessary.
During the show’s final scene, the term “Immaculate Conception” seemed to be used in reference to the virginal birth of Jesus Christ. In actuality, it refers to the notion that Mary was born without original sin.
The story, which was used as a foundation for the idea that the baby the ghost Tate and living Vivien conceived could be the anti-Christ, did not require use of the term “Immaculate Conception,” so it is unclear why the concept was thrown around incorrectly.
(Or, alternatively, if they were trying to make the point that instead of being born with no sin the child would be born with pure sin, why reference the birth of Jesus rather than the birth of Mary?)
— In his weekly post-game interview at Entertainment Weekly, Ryan Murphy reveals that next week’s episode will put an end to the debate about whether Violet is alive or dead…kind of.
“One [thing the episode] does tackle is the Violet thing. Is she or isn’t she? Or What? And there is a very big What; there could be a different scenario,” explains Murphy.
