If I understand anything about 'real life' EBEs (and I've read some of Mack's books)
the greys and the Nordic types that the X-Files portrays really do 'exist.' Of course,
everything that the X-Files portrays them doing is totally fictional, and the Black
Cancer is Surfer!Boy's inventi
Let's just start out with a catalog...
The "ghost"/"martian face" dudes from Space
The invisible alien from Fallen Angel
The toxic-green-blooded aliens (bounty hunters/clones)
The Grays (EBE -- hinted, Ehrlenmeyer flask, etc)
Black Cancer (at least 3 varieties -- related to the grays in The Beginning)
Faceless Aliens (rebels, related to bounty hunters? Pt. X, Red and Black)
Did I miss any?
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I still think that the grays and the version.gestated.3.0 Black Cancer are seperate
and just look different, and I think the Bounty Hunters and the clones are unrelated,
allthough there is the troubling matter of the blood. The Truth At 10:13 seems to
confirm that. (I transcribed the whole thing, so I know it pretty well!) Uhh, I thought
the Faceless Aliens were just messed up humans... I did miss part of the Pt. X arc.
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No, the movie and "The Beginning" pretty much established that the black cancer (v3.0 from the movie) is definitely related to the Grays. Remember, the black cancer created the ultra-violent clawed aliens, which "The Beginning" revealed to be a "larval" form (for lack of a better phrase) of the Grays.
Incidentally, do TPTB remember that we have Gibson and an alien sitting in a reactor room?
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Yeah, I was wondering that myself! Whatever happened to poor Gibson? I liked
him--and he would have been a great way to make a shippy ep. ("He's thinking about
your hair, Dana--he likes your new 'do.") It seems TPTB just pulled a Michael Pillar/
Bill Gates/Bill Clinton. 'Sweet amnesia/ Come and set me free!'
Anyway, I have always thought of the grays--probably because of Mack's abduction
books--as benevolent creatures that are 'on the the side of the angels.' Maybe
BlackCancer 3.0 just *looks* like the gray. (So I'm pushing the envolope of crediblity.
So sue me. I can't help it, they're so cute--Phil had the right idea with the
Tickle-Me-Alien [tm].)
Interesting thought... the BC3 aliens (Black Cancer v3.0) could be the infant form of the greys: after they reach maturity, they shrink, become cuter, lose their foul temper and retractable claws.
There was also Lord Kinbote in Jose Chung's From Outer Space and the parasites in Ice.
Now that it's the seventh season, I think that I've got a lot figured out.
The black oil in Tunguska/Terma is related to the black oil in the movie. They are the life force or the "intelligent blood", for lack of a better term, of the grays. The oil infects a host and out pops a mean, screaming, clawed, monster gray. Later, they turn into the grays that we've come to know and love or hate. As for the black oil in Piper Maru/Apocrypha was probably supposed to be somehow related to the oil we saw later.
The faceless guys are different aliens that don't like the grays and are fighting a war with them. They mutilate their faces so they won't be infected.
The green blooded alien bounty hunter is probably a whole different alien that can pretty much be hired by anybody as long as they pay him.
The guy from "Space" is probly not related to any of these guys and will probably never be seen again.
As for the invisible guy from "Fallen Angel", he's probably just a different alien. I've always wondered if he was related to the black oil in "Piper Maru" since they both make really bright flashes of light that severely burn anyone around them.
There are also the "gray-like" aliens in Paper Clip. Seasons 6&7 have pretty much established that the Grays are the guys who are taking over the world (given that BC3 is their larval form).
So who are the cute little aliens that show Scully the way out of Strughold Mining in Paper Clip?
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The green blooded alien bounty hunter is probably a whole different alien
From "The Unnatural" I got the impression that ABH was also a gray, like the others.
So who are the cute little aliens that show Scully the way out of Strughold Mining in Paper Clip?
The faceless rebels in their real form? Since they are rebels, and can shape-shift (like ABH), they would also be grays.
Christer- From "The Unnatural" I got the impression that ABH was also a gray, like the others.
He sure looked like a gray. He must be a different kind. The ep with Jeremiah Smith showed that he had green blood rather than black oil.
Christer- The faceless rebels in their real form? Since they are rebels, and can shape-shift (like ABH), they would also be grays.
If the rebels are grays, why would they mutilate themselves so they wouldn't be infected by their own blood? I didn't know that they could shape shift. I thought they just wore real-looking human masks.
He sure looked like a gray. He must be a different kind. The ep with Jeremiah Smith showed that he had green blood rather than black oil.
But the (baseball) alien from "The Unnatural" said his blood was toxic to humans, probably meaning the green stuff. Has it ever been stated that the black oil is the gray's blood?
I didn't know that they could shape shift. I thought they just wore real-looking human masks.
I don't recall the scene exactly but I seem to remember them shape shifting to GET the human faces, but then got the faces ripped off.
Maybe the black stuff only comes out when they're in the monstrous sharped clawed and teeth form like in the movie and "The Beginning."
How do we get an alien "fetus" in The Ehrlenmeyer Flask when the Grays appear to come from the BC3.0?