ambular-d replied to your post:iâm seeing a lot of discussion about Mary (in...
I never saw her being named âMaryâ as a reference to Christianityâs Mary. I thought the choices of 'Johnâ and 'Maryâ were meant to drive home what a nice, normal, typical, American apple-pie family they were supposed to be.
definitely, yeah; I always personally made the Holy Mary/Virgin Mary connection because of the showâs christian/catholic mythos roots, John and Joseph as similar sounding names, and the whole Sam as the boy king and dying for humanity thing paralleling jesus.Â












