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That's a lot of eggs!

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leosanjev

MemberOvomorph02/14/2012
Evening all, First post so apologies if this has already been discussed... Revisited the directors cut of Alien not long ago and as usual ended up thinking... on the derelict ship, where did all the eggs come from? What got me thinking was... the directors cut suggests the xenos victims mutate into eggs. Is it possible that all the eggs on the derelict were at one time victims of the xenos, human or other? Could the fate of the Prometheus crewe have been to end up as these little bundles of joy, mutated by the xenos then harvested by the space jockeys and as has been widely discussed used to wipe out any species the space jockeys take a disliking to? If the space jockeys take a disliking to humans, which i think its safe to say the trailer and tag line suggest they might, they may well be planning to wipe out us humans with what is essentially... us humans I guess it's a take on the old 'mankind will cause the end of the planet earth' scenario, but maybe worth a thought
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XPressElevator

MemberOvomorph02/14/2012
from what i remember of the original story arc, when there was only one alien around, it's job was to capture and mutate a host into an egg that would produce a queen, which would then go on to lay further eggs. I think much of the Alien history is what has been built around the Dark Horse comic series over the years and that has in some way formed the cannon for what we know of the alienverse. Was watching the Alien Blu-ray myself the other day, and did wonder if anyone knew why the Nostromo engine destruct instructions was in english and french (i think) and why Ripley was reading the french instructions. i'm still going with the events that a Queen was created somewhere (following the Aliens story arc) to create all the eggs and that the face hugger is dormant till the egg is tripped and then activates the face hugger. BUT..Scott did say that this is a spin on what we know, so is open to debate on where the eggs, derelict and SJ fits in. Who thinks that Jar-Jar Binks is a candidate for the alien blueprint, seems to have the dimensions and bits in place for it :)

aintnozeno

MemberOvomorph02/14/2012
Jar-Jar might actually be the ONLY reason I would throw my popcorn and walk out of the theater... But that's probably the only one. Interesting idea on the eggs though, and one we would have all missed without the director's cut in our libraries. Each egg may have actually been the rest of the crew perhaps?

The High Priest

MemberOvomorph02/15/2012
@Xpresselevator Dude, get the queen out of your head, that was nothing to do with the original alien story. James Cameron made that part of the alien life cycle up for aliens. In alien it was absolutely implied that the xenos converted their victims into eggs which then transformed into facehuggers. The cut coccoon scene where dallas is transforming and you see brett has already taken egg form. On the derelict the script makes a point of Lambert enquiring "what happened to the rest of the crew?" Lo and behold Kane then finds all the eggs. This was also all implied in the novelization. I do know ridley has now moved the goal posts and said the eggs were been transported to be used as some weapon or terraforming device.

BellaisanAlien

MemberOvomorph02/15/2012
Perhaps the planet they go to has already been harvested and the species of the planet transformed to eggs?? The xeno we see in Prometheus could be the bi-product of this?? This could explain the malevolence of the Space Jockey....... Or maybe the Space Jockey are being harvested and the Engineer's are the attacking species (using the xeno's)???......

XPressElevator

MemberOvomorph02/15/2012
THP > I'll try , but the thing with prequels is that you can rewrite the sequels :D I don't think that the entire egg chamber would be a result of all the crew being mutated, otherwise that would be a lot of crew on that ship being picked off one at a time. I think if we are going to try and workout out what is going on with the film, we should really look at Alien. Much of what I am picking up from the human/alien link is: 1) We know what the cellular structure of the face huggers is made from (see Ash) 2) For a foreign organism to survive in a human, it would have to be biologically inert or compatible with the host so as not to cause rejection/reaction 3) This may explain the speed of the gestation period 4) The face huggers seem to know how to process and exchange gases, Oxygen/Carbon Dioxide. 5) The aliens seem quite happy eating humans, so no biology issues there then 6) I could also be talking nonsense, but in 113 days we'll know for certain :D have dusted off my copy of the Alien novel by alan dean foster and have started to re-read again.

BellaisanAlien

MemberOvomorph02/15/2012
If biological matter is in the Ampules I think this could explain the sheer volume of eggs. Whether the Ampules contain genetic material for various different species (like an space noah's ark) or a nursery for the Engineer's/Space Jockey's young. I think this is plausible as we have never seen a xeno out of a very industrial environment; if the xeno was capable of converting anything biological this could translate to why LV-426 is so barren. The xeno's have literally stripped everything biological away from the planet, with the exception of their creator the Engineer/Space Jockey.
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