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tesseract620
MemberOvomorphNov-24-2013 1:14 PMOk, so I have a few questions about the film.
First off, is this movie independent of the alien universe? As in, did Ripley and all that still happen in the same human timeline as this?
I can only figure that the answer to that question is that it could go either way really, seeing as Alien is somewhere around 25 years in the future....
So if the creatures from Alien somehow came from either A) the engineers, or B) the site of Prometheus, how come the creatures are so much different from each other. I mean they are VERY similar, but still different enough that there needs to be some explanation of the gap in only 25 years.
So is this just an update because at this point the creatures from Alien are outdated mentally/visually/credibility wise to the audience in 2013? I mean lets be honest AVP kind of screwed the real sci-fi out of the series.
And my last question, the giant cephalopod like creature that killed the engineer guy at the end, considering that by my best guess that guy is probably AT LEAST 8 or 9 feet tall, wouldn't you say that this is quite the step up from the facehugger things from alien?!
That being said, WTF is the point of the Alien creature at that point? Honestly a giant space octopus that can bleed acid, breed through an almost parasitic way very quickly, and has larvae like creatures that are like space cobras on crack IS WAY GNARLIER THAN ALIEN EVER TRIED TO BE!!!
Why would you go back to the alien creatures? Honestly? 2 claws, double mouth thing, and a tail with a blade on the end......oooooooo scary.
Space octopus thats (from what we've seen so far) 20ft+ in legspan, with two rows of teeth, and a probe for inserting eggs into hosts. Soooo much more to deal with.