Yes, the black oil has radiation power, but not when it is gestating an E.B.E.. That process seems to divert too much of its energy. In Tunguska/Terma and Patient X/The Red and the Black, the black oil seen is a more docile from that appears to have been an earlier, less evolved strain, and/or damaged by the crash, and/or tampered with by human engineering. That covers all the black oil's appearances in which it didn't use radiation.
I wasn't saying you didn't see *someone* say what you're claiming. I said the main mythology writers, Carter and Spotnitz, never said it. Indeed, the person you are describing is Rob Bowman, a director. If you read my last post further, I said the mythology is not his purview and provided a quote from Bowman on the season 6 DVD that I think might be what you've been referring to.
If you're referring to the vaccine, that was intended to fight against the black oil. It's something that was injected by a person. It was never intended to be transmitted by bees.
The black oil behaved differently depending on its environment and situation. It was stated that the black oil is inhibited (not killed or completely neutralized, but restrained) by cold and activated by heat. Every time we saw it, the situation was different. The first time, it was the sentience of an alien colonist whose spaceship had crashed in the Pacific. It spent those two episodes trying to get back to its ship. It didn't have any need or interest in using a human host to gestate an E.B.E.
The next time we saw the black oil, it was in a very cold environment (Tunguska) and had come to Earth in a Mars meteorite that was billions of years old. These factors and/or possible tampering by the Russians and/or Syndicate can explain why the black oil was more docile in these episodes. It looked different, too.
In the movie, we were introduced to the greys in their mean form, unable to evolve because of the ice age. Transition to present day, the black oil infects some people and, spurred on by the hot environment, begins the gestation process. This is also what happens in the season 6 premiere, wherein we first see the evolution completed. Only other time the black oil appears is in Vienen, where it has been unleashed by the oil rig and is trying to "phone home."
The movie has been planned as a stand-alone ever since the first one came out, so this isn't news. The writers have never said it's about their own confusion about the mythology. Most of the episodes were stand-alones, and stand-alones are thought to have wider commercial appeal, plus the fact that the mythology has largely been played out. The last two seasons were basically just a retread of the original mythology.
I own and have watched the DVDs. The main mythology writers, Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, never said anything like what you're claiming. I've also read probably every interview they've ever given. While they often acknowledged that the mythology had become too confusing for the fans, they always maintained that they understood it and that it was often misunderstood by the fans. Some fans, like Andy Guess www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/9013/myth. html, do understand it. And no, I'm not saying those who understand it are smarter than you or the average fan. Understanding the mythology isn't about intelligence. It's about memory and effort. It's about wasting so much of your time that you're actually able to remember all the key details, and then making the effort to piece them together. Most fans never did this, for a host of good reasons. That is why the series finale was in large part a recap of old news Carter and Spotnitz had already delivered, but which many had little awareness of.
http://www.xfroadrunners.com/articles/02junespotni tz.html "The two-hour finale attempts to be as comprehensive in resolving many of the outstanding questions or uncertainties people may have about the series -- specifically the mythology. I think we provided a lot of these answers in that part, but unless you were taking notes for the past nine years, it's understandable if you may have forgotten or been confused by certain issues. For the first time in one place, you're going to see a pretty coherent explanation of everything the show has been about and, even more than that, a coherent explanation of everything the show has meant."
I reviewed some of the DVD material again. Could you be confusing Rob Bowman's statement as being from one of the main writers? If so, he was a director. The mythology was out of his purview. Here's the comment: "The mythology had gotten so thick and dense, and (there were) so many conspiracies and betrayals that after awhile you can't - the episodes we becoming too talky, too tough. Even the fans were having trouble keeping up with these episodes."
Spotnitz followed that with: ""We thought, you know, are we going to carry on with this conspiracy and continue to complicate it, or are we just going to do something no one expects and go ahead and blow up the conspiracy. And that seemed like the far more interesting path to take."
Some other quotes from interviews: http://www.nicklea.com/ew99.htm Carter acknowledges the density of his creation. He will not, however, admit to what plagues many fans: profound confusion. The conspiracy, he maintains, "is not as complicated as you think."
Spotnitz: "I know there's a lot of questions of mythology that a lot of people still aren't clear on, but the reality is, most of the big answers have already been given."
"People who think there are all these unanswered questions tend not to have seen all the shows," says executive producer Frank Spotnitz. "If you really have paid attention, most of them have indeed been answered."
http://tinyurl.com/2qdamh "You're going to understand this conspiracy after the end of the two parter," admits CC. (Speaking of Two Fathers/One Son)
http://tinyurl.com/2orubs "When you start, you make certain choices, and those choices accumulate and create a number of [other] choices. The story starts to tell itself, and that's been very exciting in a way. There's so much that has come and been told that you are, in a way, a slave to the facts you've created, and it's a really fun way to tell stories. That's not to say it's simplified. In fact, it becomes complicated, but it all starts to make sense, and that's been a really wonderful thing.
Carter also displays a clear understanding of the mythology on the hidd
Yes, she was a skeptic, but the point is she did become more open to the paranormal every season, to the point where she believed in things in season 5 that she never would have in the Pilot.
Another such element, if anything, Scully was a "non-believer" for far too long. She has seen and analyzed and solved hundreds of those "weird cases" and she's as skeptic as in episode 1? Nonsensical.
I think she was more open to the paranormal every season. She believed in aliens in season 5.
You must remember, the mythos migrated from uncovering the government hiding aliens, to bees being used to inject the black oil alien and enslave the human race (no, wait, they were going to be used to inject the green stuff from the movie and convert all humans to sleestacks -- see my point?)
The bees were always intended to transmit the black oil. There is no contradiction or inconsistency here. They were never intended to transmit any "green stuff."
The writers actually admitted to killing off the syndicate because it made no more sense and they couldn't keep up with all the complexities themselves.
Actually, they never said anything like that. They always maintained that they understand the mythology and that it's not as complicated as people think. They've said the "full disclosure" two-parter was made because the mythology had become become too byzantine for the audience (not for them). Believing at this time that they only had 1.5 seasons left, they thought they had enough material left over to sustain the mythology through season 7. Alas, season 7 had very little myth at all.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue134/interview.html
What directions do you plan on taking the series, after having resolved much of The X-Files' mythology last year in the episodes "Two Fathers" and "One Son"?
Spotnitz: Our feeling was that the mythology was becoming an awful lot for people to continue to keep track of. And by definition every time you tell a new story you have to complicate [that mythology]; you can't just keep repeating the same old information. As we sat down to the mythology episodes for February, [we felt that] we'd reached a critical mass. And so we [decided to] just bring it all to a head.
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Yes, the black oil has radiation power, but not when it is gestating an E.B.E.. That process seems to divert too much of its energy. In Tunguska/Terma and Patient X/The Red and the Black, the black oil seen is a more docile from that appears to have been an earlier, less evolved strain, and/or damaged by the crash, and/or tampered with by human engineering. That covers all the black oil's appearances in which it didn't use radiation.
I wasn't saying you didn't see *someone* say what you're claiming. I said the main mythology writers, Carter and Spotnitz, never said it. Indeed, the person you are describing is Rob Bowman, a director. If you read my last post further, I said the mythology is not his purview and provided a quote from Bowman on the season 6 DVD that I think might be what you've been referring to.
If you're referring to the vaccine, that was intended to fight against the black oil. It's something that was injected by a person. It was never intended to be transmitted by bees.
The black oil behaved differently depending on its environment and situation. It was stated that the black oil is inhibited (not killed or completely neutralized, but restrained) by cold and activated by heat. Every time we saw it, the situation was different. The first time, it was the sentience of an alien colonist whose spaceship had crashed in the Pacific. It spent those two episodes trying to get back to its ship. It didn't have any need or interest in using a human host to gestate an E.B.E.
The next time we saw the black oil, it was in a very cold environment (Tunguska) and had come to Earth in a Mars meteorite that was billions of years old. These factors and/or possible tampering by the Russians and/or Syndicate can explain why the black oil was more docile in these episodes. It looked different, too.
In the movie, we were introduced to the greys in their mean form, unable to evolve because of the ice age. Transition to present day, the black oil infects some people and, spurred on by the hot environment, begins the gestation process. This is also what happens in the season 6 premiere, wherein we first see the evolution completed. Only other time the black oil appears is in Vienen, where it has been unleashed by the oil rig and is trying to "phone home."
The movie has been planned as a stand-alone ever since the first one came out, so this isn't news. The writers have never said it's about their own confusion about the mythology. Most of the episodes were stand-alones, and stand-alones are thought to have wider commercial appeal, plus the fact that the mythology has largely been played out. The last two seasons were basically just a retread of the original mythology.
I own and have watched the DVDs. The main mythology writers, Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, never said anything like what you're claiming. I've also read probably every interview they've ever given. While they often acknowledged that the mythology had become too confusing for the fans, they always maintained that they understood it and that it was often misunderstood by the fans. Some fans, like Andy Guess www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/9013/myth. html, do understand it. And no, I'm not saying those who understand it are smarter than you or the average fan. Understanding the mythology isn't about intelligence. It's about memory and effort. It's about wasting so much of your time that you're actually able to remember all the key details, and then making the effort to piece them together. Most fans never did this, for a host of good reasons. That is why the series finale was in large part a recap of old news Carter and Spotnitz had already delivered, but which many had little awareness of.
http://www.xfroadrunners.com/articles/02junespotni tz.html
"The two-hour finale attempts to be as comprehensive in resolving many of the outstanding questions or uncertainties people may have about the series -- specifically the mythology. I think we provided a lot of these answers in that part, but unless you were taking notes for the past nine years, it's understandable if you may have forgotten or been confused by certain issues. For the first time in one place, you're going to see a pretty coherent explanation of everything the show has been about and, even more than that, a coherent explanation of everything the show has meant."
I reviewed some of the DVD material again. Could you be confusing Rob Bowman's statement as being from one of the main writers? If so, he was a director. The mythology was out of his purview. Here's the comment: "The mythology had gotten so thick and dense, and (there were) so many conspiracies and betrayals that after awhile you can't - the episodes we becoming too talky, too tough. Even the fans were having trouble keeping up with these episodes."
Spotnitz followed that with: ""We thought, you know, are we going to carry on with this conspiracy and continue to complicate it, or are we just going to do something no one expects and go ahead and blow up the conspiracy. And that seemed like the far more interesting path to take."
Some other quotes from interviews: http://www.nicklea.com/ew99.htm
Carter acknowledges the density of his creation. He will not, however, admit to what plagues many fans: profound confusion. The conspiracy, he maintains, "is not as complicated as you think."
Spotnitz: "I know there's a lot of questions of mythology that a lot of people still aren't clear on, but the reality is, most of the big answers have already been given."
"People who think there are all these unanswered questions tend not to have seen all the shows," says executive producer Frank Spotnitz. "If you really have paid attention, most of them have indeed been answered."
http://tinyurl.com/2qdamh
"You're going to understand this conspiracy after the end of the two parter,"
admits CC. (Speaking of Two Fathers/One Son)
http://tinyurl.com/2orubs
"When you start, you make certain choices, and those choices accumulate and
create a number of [other] choices. The story starts to tell itself, and
that's been very exciting in a way. There's so much that has come and been
told that you are, in a way, a slave to the facts you've created, and it's a
really fun way to tell stories. That's not to say it's simplified. In fact,
it becomes complicated, but it all starts to make sense, and that's been a
really wonderful thing.
Carter also displays a clear understanding of the mythology on the hidd
Yes, she was a skeptic, but the point is she did become more open to the paranormal every season, to the point where she believed in things in season 5 that she never would have in the Pilot.