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MemberOvomorphJune 13, 2012770 Views1 Replies
One of the aspects of Alien that always intrigued me was Giger's concept of the "biomechanical." The living machine. The idea of creation through evolution and mutation. I know a lot of Cameron fans will say, "That's just too far fetched and the concept of an Alien queen, etc, etc, is more like it." That's fine; but that's a route another director had chosen to follow. What Giger and Ridley came up with years ago was what I like to call "terrifying beauty." The original alien looked humanoid, moved somewhat humanoid; but, yet, it didn't. In some ways, I think Ridley was looking to get back to that concept of creation via evolution and mutation in Prometheus. This is just an idea; but as the ampules really started to ooze the black life goo, we never really saw how much farther it would progress. Now, zap over to the derelict on the other moon; perhaps, just perhaps, that ship had ampules that oozed the black goo of creative madness, went through the entire process, and became eggs. That, to me, seems like a Giger concept. The alien that I always preferred wasn't the insect that Cameron made it into; but the "perfect organism" of biomechanical beings. If Ridley takes the seqeul to Prometheus to the engineers' homeworld; I really hope gets Giger involved to create another masterpiece of "terrifying beauty." Other notes. I really enjoyed Prometheus. I would have loved to see a completely mutated Halloway and Fifield. I would have also changed the story on Weyland, too (kept him as the TED Talks/Sam Neil version); but, that's for another thread.

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The Queen is so boring... It really is a dull, unoriginal idea..

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