Alien lifecycle
stuartmcc
MemberOvomorphDecember 31, 20112402 Views33 RepliesI've posted this in the ''Fly In The Soup'' thread but I thought I would put it on a seperate thread too. I'm wondering if Ridley Scott is going back to the original Alien film concepts and story, as has been speculated. Remember in the Alien 'special' edition there is the cut scene reinstated where Ripley comes across Dallas cocooned and also what looks like Brett sticking out the top of an egg. I'm guessing that originally the Alien could start some kind of reaction that would transform people into eggs/facehuggers. Brett would have been turned into the egg/facehugger and Dallas would have been the host for the resulting facehugger. The eggs in the cave in the original could be the transformed crew of the derelict. All the crew were changed to the egg state waiting for someone to come to the planet and be infected, then possibly leaving for other planets on whatever spaceship had come to the planet. This would account for no Queen Alien as Scott has stated that the Queen was not his original idea for the Alien lifecycle.
December 31, 2011
The Newborn was a mistake, it clearly states in the film that the Queen had too much human DNA in her genome, another reason I suspect it was born from Ripley 7, not Ripley 8.
December 31, 2011
That is assuming the Aliens will feature in Prometheus, which I don't think they will.
That said the original idea of using hosts in pairs (1 into an egg, 1 as a host for that egg), may have been their original intention, but it was never actually explained as such at the time, which "essentially" gave Cameron free reign with the Queen idea.
I know a lot of people may not like the Queen idea because they feel it lessens the Alien into an insect. Is that necessarily a bad thing. Insects outnumber us at least 1 million to 1, imagine if the where 8 feet tall with acid for blood and used us to propagate. that a nice image.
One thing many seem to overlook, what happens when the Aliens run out of suitable hosts.
December 31, 2011
Could also back my theory that the Aliens were created by the Space Jockeys as a means to artificially create extinct events on prehistoric planets to encourage the evolution of intelligent life.
BM, I really don't think shaw or anyone is going to give birth to a xeno or any form of facehugger.
