Life Cycle?

in fact, if you look at the cocoon Brett is in it looks like it's taking on characteristics of a Zeno egg. Looks that way in some of Giger's work that wasn't used as well.

IMO he should go back to his original idea.

HAHAHA holy crap you weren't kidding~

I think so too. I'm pretty sure we're in the minority though. A thread just like this was started and it suggested that RS combine ideas. That could be cool.

Grossest scene in the movie, IMO Click-->[url=http://youtu.be/dS5MtzrW1vU]Deleted cocoon scene[/url]

Ridley removed it cuz he thought it slowed down the frantic "pacing" of the evacuation. Great scene IMO Really adds depth to the creature and it's life cycle

Rather than either, or, I prefer a both, and approach to this topic. They mutate eggs until they can spawn and protect the queen. A queen is more efficient, but the mutation option means absolute eradication is the only option.

I like the original. It's more alien/unusual. Why compare them to bugs? I think the creature is more terrifying/weird when it can dissolve me into an egg over say, 24hr. How much would that suck? to be slowly transformed into something else? The Alien doesn't need any additional help from a queen. I fine this far more fantastic!

@Jv8r It probably took more like 5-6 hours. Brett was almost done changing. I agree that the mutation life cycle is way creepier, I'm just saying that both can work without too much mental gymnastics. The xeno mural that is the icon for Prometheus Trailers has queen head plates at the top of it, so we're stuck with her.

I don't recall...what was she doing down there in this scene? Was this before or after she threw the self destruct switch? Seems out of the way if she's in a 10 minute count down to be strolling in the basement...

@Deckard_B26354 IMO I agree however I have to differ to the consensus here because as another member named "Snorkelbottom" and I figured out together a Long Long time ago in our lives not just on these forums but in Our Lives... Anything that did not appear in any of the films in the franchise's official timeline and from the Theatrical {sadly} release... ..Do Not Count As [b]"Canon"[/b] {My G-D Do I ever Hate That Freaking Word In This Context}

@Giger's Dream It is weird in the timeline, so that's why it was cut from the ’79 film. It's back in the Director’s Cut, though.

@Spartacus... Screw the canon imo. No offense or anything. Really, I don't want you to think I mean that in a rude way. I just think Alien is Ridley's film. I'd rather him do what he feels works best rather than stick to any canon because, well, usually what Ridley thinks works best is what works best. If he thinks the life cycle involving the Queen works better for what he's doing or going to do then so be it. If he thinks a combo of the ideas works best, cool.

The scene was removed and in my opinion, removed from canon. I personally don't like the idea of the cocoon. It's a pointless life cycle stage. Why not just cocoon a person and they are mutated directly into an alien. faster, more direct, and more weapon like. Similarly a hermaphrodite alien that layed eggs, and didn't need a queen would work, and be as equally effective and disturbing while being much more effective than the pointless cacoon stage. Not that life only evolves by eliminating all pointless traits, because it doesn't. My point is, if the Xeno is directly engineered as many like to conclude it's far from perfect with the cocoon stage as canon. This leads me to believe that the alien itself isn't the weapon, but something before it is, and we may get more of this "DNA" in Prometheus. My option isn't canon though so we may never have a clear Ridley alien life cycle, and I'm ok with questions remaining open ended. Cameron's canon makes sense, and is much more biologically plausible. Ridley even likes Cameron's take. That doesnt mean that wherever the Xeno came from, or what the tech is, it couldn't have endless twisted results meaning that the original Alien was just one life form offshoot of something worse.

Deckard_B26354 I really really really honestly wish things worked that way in film I really do because IMO you are partly, a lot, correct in that a lot of the stuff we cannot count would be wonderful if we could. What bugs the most is this flagrant lack of faith in perhaps what was the Best Possible person for this job, and I can guarrantee you all had anyone but Ridley been doing this thing it would never have come out even half as incredible as I know it did already!!! Keep The Faith In Ridley Alive, There was never and still isn't any reason what so ever Not To !!!