awakened
MemberOvomorphJun-14-2017 7:24 PMMaybe I'm missing something.
I see this misconception over and over, and now (after Covenant) it is used to cast a doubt on David creating the first xenomorph.
The creature in the mural to me is just an "Archeomorph". The way I see it (warning: no sources, completely made up), billions of years ago the Engineers come in contact with the Archeomorphs, extracted black goo from them, learned how to genetically engineer the goo into innocuous in vitro glands (the ones stored in the urns), gained life-seeding capabilities from the goo and created a religious cult around the whole thing (complete with sacred imagery of Archeomorphs and the giant heads of the first brave Engineers "crusaders/saints/prophets" able to harvest the goo from the Archeos).
But back to the point: there are NO definitive exterior features (what's with the shape of that head? that looks like a classic xeno more than a proto/neo/deacon to you?) that pin down the creature in the mural to being the same classic xeno created by David "God Destroyer of the Galaxy". (which itself as we know still ought to become a bit more biomechanical to actually match the classic movies but that's not the point)
I cringe every time people swear without any doubt there's a classic xeno in the mural and use it as proof of a time paradox or of David being just a copycat.
Now that I'm at it, a couple of bonus misconceptions
- why the 2000 years old sleeping elite pilot-warrior-noble Engineer looking slightly different than the modern day plebs-Engineers from Paradise baffles people? And they immediately feel the need to come up with a theory that plebs-Engineers are just another goo-seeded race of creatures? Have you ever looked at the number of faces and sizes and colors the people on our own planet Earth come in? (the correct canonical representation would be a Chinese guy in our case, think about that..) With a 2000 years difference even more so? For a billion-years spanning race? Maybe the pilot grew up on a different planet? Maybe the original space jockey grew up on a planet with atmosphere/gravity/nutrients that make Engineers grow bigger than the average Engineer? (I'm considering a given the fact that Paradise is not the only planet or even the home/original planet the Engineers live on)
- about the Space Jockey being too old (fossilized) to be killed by the David-xeno just 20 years before the original Alien: again, like the mural, there's nothing pinning the chest-bursting creature that killed him to a David-xeno, we've seen proto/neo/deacons bursting from a number of places, not sure why the goo couldn't randomly create a neomorph with chest bursting capabilities that killed the SJ ages ago, then in modern day David seeds LV-426 with his xenos and the derelict is a good place to set up a trap. (I may be contradicted by events in Awakening of course)
So, to recap, the alien in the mural is not a David-ultimate-classic-xeno (the biological original or its biomechanical eventual evolution) and has a weird head. And I call it an "Archeomorph".
