Peter Walking on Water/the Train Trestle at Miller's Ravine

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Peter Walking on Water/the Train Trestle at Miller's Ravine

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*topic title note - I really wanted to call this thread 'Peter Walking on Water the Train Trestle over Miller's Ravine' but, it won't let you strike through words in a subject line - argh. :x

Anyway... :-

This is another one of those 'has-everyone-else-always-taken-this-for-granite-and-I'm-just-really-slow-or-am-I-actually-the-first-person-to-think-of-this' threads. ;) I was just listening to A... is for Attitude and noticed that the scene where Whit rescues Peter from the train trestle has some similarities to the story of Peter walking on water in the Bible.

Whit - "Ok Pete, ok. Take it easy now. I'm almost there. Just relax. A few more steps and it'll all be over."
*they notice the train is coming
Whit - "Peter, you have to get up from there."
Peter - "I can't!"
Whit - "Yes you can! Come on, get up! Good, now give me your hand, Peter. - you're hand."
Peter - "I'm scared!"
Whit - "We've got to move Pete and I mean right now! Go! Go! Go!"
Peter - "Ok"
Whit - "Come on, give me your hand, quick! Jump Peter, jump!"

*not the whole scene word for word
  • both Peters are in Danger
  • both Peters are afraid
  • both Peters put a tremendous amount of trust in the figures they're walking towards
  • both stories can be described as miracles (although in a quite a different way, I guess)
  • obviously, both characters are named Peter (and since the Peter in Odyssey is only in 2 episodes, they may well have given him that name for the sake of drawing out the similarities in this scene)
Now, obviously Whit isn't God - it's not Peter's faith in Whit that gets them off the track and at one point Whit admits that he, too, is scared but, the Peter sides of the stories do seem to share quite a bit. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not or, like I said, if everyone else has already caught this but, it is an interesting thought none-the-less. :)
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Post by Jesus' Princess »

You know, I'd never thought about that before. it's an interesting connection for sure :)
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I never realized that! Maybe it's because I haven't listened to that episode that much. Kudos to you, KBT for coming up with that parallel!
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Post by Leonard Meltsner »

I was just about to write the AIOWiki article on Miller's Ravine. Huh.
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Eugene-"Well, the sequence of events occured with extreme rapidity, but I shall attempt to recall them. I was powering my two-wheeler along this concrete pathway, when your personnage suddenly appeared directly in front of me blocking my course. My reflexes immediately sprang to life in an attempt to navigate an evasive manouveur around you while still maintaining course and speed, but I evidently over-compensated, and my Schwinn careened off the hardened path, taking me with it, and up-ended us both in this shrub, a Rhododendron of the heath family I believe, deducing from the leathery evergreen leaves, as distinguished from the deciduous Azalea, which as we all know is..."
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Post by Loney 97 »

That's a really cool connection; good for you for putting the two together! =D>
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That actually makes a lot of sense! I wish I would've thought of that! ;)
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That's really cool! I wonder If the writers did that on purpose.
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And I have never heard the episode. -_-
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