Shaws body in 1979 alien!

I have the trailer in HD downloaded to quicktime so you can move it frame by frame, those staples are clear as day when you move the frames like that. I wonder how the vaginal birth would've turned out for her. Ouch, screw chest bursters, this movie has genital bursters. Giger must have been more involved in this than we were led to believe. LOL You know in the IMAX trailer it jumps out towards the screens right after it's extracted, so it must escape after this scene and that's when she tries to make it to David and Vickers to warn them and then collapses. The creature escaping from the Space Jockey's head in the leaked trailer looked just like this with tentacles. Same one? More than one? ( It was posted by Bellaisanalien a while back).

In one of the novels, Alien3 I think, Ripley is telling another one of the characters that the Alien on board the Nostromo was preparing to reproduce itself. The cut scene seemed to suggest that Brett was being slowly enveloped by a growing egg, fed upon by a larval facehugger. It would have been physically impossible for the drone on board the Nostromo to "lay" a full sized egg, so it had to deposit something like the earlier drawing, or attach some sort of small parasite on Brett that eventually cocooned and consumed him. If the scene in question is a facehugger being removed, then this is Shaw's death scene. In Alien and Aliens, any attempt to remove one of those usually resulted in some very bad things happening to the host.

It looks very much like an octopus or a squid!

my opinion is that the whole area is airborne with cells that infect the whole crew check out the guy looking at his eye ...he is changing !!!! that would leave it wide open for a queen and hunters to emerge ..then all the rest ..comes into place ....the thing in the capsule with the woman could be acting lick a fungi and releasing spores any comments on this theory ?

jc and biomechanic, this is similar thinking I used back in the 90's when compiling the alien lifecycle chart. Brett was injected or stung by the Alien with some kind of retrovirus that rewrote his DNA., Dallas was going to be the host to the new face hugger.

on the first frame of your .gif you can clearly see some kind of a umbilical cord going down from that embryo to her body like when a child is connected to mother after being born

My fear is that we will see Shaw chasing her baby ,,,to be honest i dont like the idea that much ... Its pretty clear that the protochestbuster/protofacehugger/protoegg is extracted from the belly as biomechanic say . two interesting notes 1) will be the first time that one is saved from being the host of an xeno in any alien movie ...we saw many promises before but ..everyone died ... 2) Later we see her to rebel against a medic...it would be interesting to think why

Biomeachanic, although I like your sketch, I think it's a little out, the extra tails are distortions in the glass, (I'm 99% certain) That close up definitely is like a less defined chest burster thrashing its tail, it would also appear to have an umbilical cord. I'm pretty sure it has a mouth as well, if you look at the orientation of the blood splatter marks on it, they are at right angles to the long mouth like one.[img]http://www.hiab-x.com/synaptic/prometheus_files/embryotadpolethingie.jpg[/img]

becuase they want to carry the specimen back to earth while she is aware that they are dangerous ? Will be a bit of a lame plot but .... Surely she isnt happy about the situation ...and to prove that we see her almost alone in all the other following images .

warchild: I don't believe this theory of queen bursting through SJ's chest and laying eggs throughout the derelict's ship. Why? 1) eggs found in derelict are clearly stored there on purpose. They are aligned, they are protected by some green laser (probably stasis field). There is nothing random in it. Those eggs were stored there on purpose by some intelligent beings.

Frantz: ripley survived being xeno host in A:R..

Great Scott! I never noticed that figure moving in background! It could be space jockey suited up. That's what it looks like to me. That chest buster thing really does look like a wired tad pole thingy!

lol, warchild, there is nothing moving in the background, its just the blot on the glass. It is on the same place on the glass while the glass shield opens so it moves..

Im afraid you have brought up a very interesting detail. The eggs definately wouldn't have the laser field over them if just the queen went through there laying them randomly. That makes total sense. But my question is now maybe the android survives and rigs the place with that stuff and that's how lasers get there??

Yes I see, it is only a reflection. Strange reflection though...