Dominion: The Evolution of the 8-Balls

She's sexy and she knows it

                  If you've seen Legion you'll remember that 8-balls were your basic monster with nasty teeth, black soulless eyes, a creepy voice, and something extra disturbing: they could change their body, twisting and bending any way they need. I'm probably not the first to squirm a bit every time they see an 8-ball scaling a wall like a spider. But some of the 8-balls seem to be capable of much more now: they have wings! Why is that?

She hasn't been to a dentist in 25 years

           We know that when an 8-ball moves in it's next to impossible to get rid of them. Evictions have had a very low success rate, even lower when you count the fact that the human host dies shortly afterwards. But after Clementine we began to question the actual nature of an 8-ball possession. It looked like the 8-ball was in control but was sharing housing, which led to an identity crisis, especially when Claire was around. It appears that an 8-ball can snuff out the original soul of its host if it wanted or prolonged possession would just cause the human soul to fade away giving the 8-ball complete control of the body.

You can't hide from the Archangel

          In Heaven, Michael explained that all of the angels were aware of each other but on Earth they can only see as far as physically as any human and telling a higher angel apart from a human is near to impossible. So what I draw from that is though the higher angels were given physical bodies in Heaven they were all in spirit form, multi-dimensional and the Dogs of Heaven though spirits had some form with wings. But when passing to Earth the lower angels were nothing but air; intangible, unable to interact with the physical plain. Now that the 8-balls have completely taken control of their human hosts they can manifest their angel forms on a more physical level. How's that for evolution!

When I said I needed a new hood ornament I meant
a small metal grey hound or something

          The only difference between the 8-balls and higher angels now is physical appearance. We haven't gotten much into the whole 8-balls evolving during season 1 but maybe we'll learn a bit more during season 2.