David to Oram question?

Nathan Adler

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In AC, David mentions to Oram about the morphs from Prometheus, but how can he claim much knowledge of this other than the Trilobyte since the Deacon didn't emerge until after he and Shaw had departed LV-223 - so he couldn’t necessarily predict the specifics of what would burst forth from a host once the trilobite had deposited its egg internally since the previous Prometheus crew members affected by the hammerpedes/ black goo had just physically transformed and not actually incubated a 'burster'?

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June 21, 2017

@POP! goes the Alien Weasel

No proof needed. That was just some speculation. I don't think there will ever be anything in future RS movies about this.

But if you just extrapolate what is canonical in the movies, ignoring the off screen reasons - The xenomorphs in Aliens WERE very visually different from the one in Alien, so they had to be of a slightly different breed. All were birthed by humans, so they should be the same breed, but were not, so if we back up a step to the facehugger in the egg, that is where the difference must be.

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June 22, 2017

Thanks, everyone. A guy can get dizzy with all the deleted/alternative scenes, DVD subtitles, books, comics, interviews, etc... I completely understand the reason for them (i.e., cha-CHING) but they truly convolute from the released/cinema versions.

For example: I'm getting my 15-y/o son into the series and we watched Alien 3 the other day... I've never seen this version where the FHer got a water buffalo (it was a Rottweiler when I saw it before); where they trapped the alien - only to have a crazy inmate set it free; and the version I saw had the alien queen burst from Ripley as she did her triple lindy into the liquid steel.

To me, there's something to be said for leaving things the way they are/were when it was released (isn't that what months of editing is for?)...

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June 22, 2017

Alien 3 definitely should not have been released like it was. That longer rough cut was a far better movie. The big chase/capture the alien segment in the middle of the movie just seemed to go nowhere in the theatrical cut.Then I read the novelization and found there was so much more to it, with the actual capture, and that nut Golic letting it out.

When I finally saw the rough cut and found they actually filmed all of that, I was just baffled. It badly needed those scenes.