Why So Ignorant

Gavin
MemberTrilobiteDecember 12, 20111972 Views25 RepliesOkay, heres the thing - I have posted something on two other Alien themed forums that is an intelligent and valid point. Unsurprisingly, the IQ level elsewhere makes 85 look like Einstein. So to discuss it more intelligently (I hope lol) I will post it here.
Many seem to view AVP and AVPR as non canon, despite the fact that until Fox says otherwise they are canon. Also, I personally think it is ignorant to discount said films because of their reputation without intelligently looking at the ideas they have brought to the table, which IMO validate their position as canon.
In the dvd commentary of avpr it clearly states that the predalien is in fact an adolescent queen alien, a "princess" if you like, a mid stage between chestburster and adult queen. It is also clearly stated that this mid stage was devised to address the issue of the Queen as designed by James Cameron, the issue of which is raised in the anchorpoint essays. through direct implantation the "princess" is able to manifest a small brood, allowing it to safely continue its maturation into an adult queen.
The ridged head aliens only appear in aliens and avpr, both films show a newly fledged hive coming into being, with no direct evidence that the aliens populating the hive were born from facehuggers. AVPR suggests that the ridged head aliens may in fact be born from a Princess during direct implantation (bellybursters) and the the smoothed head aliens ARE born from facehuggers (chestbursters).
I say "ARE", because in all the films that have featured the smooth head alien, they have been born from facehuggers. Thus because they are implanted by different methods and have slightly different behaviours they are two castes - warriors and drones.
Of course there is the whole Weyland Industries/Yutani Corporation element, Yutanis reverse engineering of Predator technology, the O.W.L.F., the foreshadowing of the possible Prometheus ancient astronaut element with the Predators etc.