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Duane Berry on Virgin...'agent' Krycek all proper and pristine looking, adorable double player that he is :)

heeee! :)

seen at biani's LJ here

It's going to be a MotW type of film, nothing to do with the Conspiracy storylines :(
Aka, no Krycek. :(

What a waste, to film in Vancouver and go for the MotW option. It'll be just another sci-fi horror film, of a sort.

source here

I really think someone should write a crossover starring John Doggett and John Winchester, of whatever flavour, because the X Files and Supernatural go hand in hand, and the ex Marines probably SO wouldn't.
Any takers? *looks hopeful*

*faces inbox*

In the academic articles I've read about the X Files, I haven't found anything related to the Black Oil. Of course, I haven't read ALL the academic article out there, so possibly someone has written about it and I haven't happen across it.

That said, I have a few thoughts about the Black Oil and its semiotic value as a metaphor of alien invasion and the never-ending Matrioska-like conspiracies related to it in the tv series, all based on a series of lies/liars and double agents. If not triple. Up to and including the aliens themselves and traitor amongst them.

The Black Oil is thick, and viscous.
Like mercury, it obviously has a stronger cellular cohesion than water ( I can say that in Italian using the proper terminology. In English, at this time of the night, it sort of escapes me). Therefore, it doesn't expand like water, but it sticks to itself.

It has meaning and intent. A direction. Survival of the species. Like any other living being.
Is it intelligent? Of course, in its own way. Alien intelligence, whose motives and reasoning might escape daily/human logic.

And it's black, the most used color-coding in the Western emisphere to symbolize evil forces.

By covering and taking possession of the eyes of its designated vitim, it forbids sight, ie. light. Symbolically, again, the light of knowledge, of wisdom.

There are all sort of parallels and comparisons and metaphores that can be argued on these basis.
By making his host blind, the Black Oil takes possession of it. By blinding his host, the BlackOil denies him knowledge of his actions. By making the host's eyes black, the Black Oilen hides the host's true identity and personality, making the host unknown and Other to other people's eyes, thus bodily and symbolically 'alienating' the host, biologically and socially.

Like lies, the Black Oil is vomited through the mouth.* Some lies can be sweetly formulated, but their intrinsic nature is certainly repulsive and of rejectable matter. Speech thus becomes impaired. The human race is contaminated by the symbolic ejaculation of the Oil through the mouth - the Black Oil substituting its viscous fluidity to the structural logic of semantics intertwined with speech, and language is identity.

What is left?

Lies.

Duly noted, as per stupid_cabbage comment :) = the Oilen can pass through nose and eyes, too. It can be argued that it is an additional and supporting element: disgusting material passes through the nose (mucus, snot); and tears through the lacrimal ducts (not disgusting but an expression of intense emotion, unbalance - whether positive or negative).

In what sounds like a very very pompous way of saying this, I am going to committ myself (publically, so I can't escape from it, otherwise, knowing myself, a thousands other things would intrude) to Project Krycek* and Project Harsh Realm. Both implies grabbing and icon-making, of the Krycek's X Files episodes in chronological order and of the Harsh Realm episodes respectively.

Erm.
See? Now I have to. :)
If you know of communities or LJusers that would be interested, let me know. The point of making, for me, is sharing and learning (from my own mistakes and from crit).


*thus named by the talented foxestacado