Would the newborn in Alien Resurrection have grown?

[OmegaZilla]

She most probably did not get fertilized. Developed the Newborn the same way she developed eggs.

[Blacklabel]

..unless there was an extra reason why Geddiman was kept alive...

       

[ShadowPred]

Why is it a "fail" exactly?

Because of the initial size, which was a shitload bigger than any Alien or Human newborn.  In order for it to grow, it would have to get humongous.

I guess it was a hybrid of Ripley and the queen (?) but does the film ever talk about how the queen was fertilized?

I always assumed it had something to do when they cloned Ripley. Like if maybe the Queen somehow had a human fetus growing inside of her because of the cloning process. Ripley did come away with acid blood of a sort, nothing tells me that the Queen couldn't have "benefited?" from the cloning process as well.

[SM]

Why is it a "fail" exactly?

Because of the initial size, which was a shitload bigger than any Alien or Human newborn.  In order for it to grow, it would have to get humongous.

For it to grow, it doesn't have to grow to the same ratio as a normal chestburster.

I guess it was a hybrid of Ripley and the queen (?) but does the film ever talk about how the queen was fertilized?

Queens are never fertilised.  Fertilisation occure when hugger meets host.

In the case of the Auriga Queen and the Newborn - everything can be put down to genetic crossing.  Which might seem like a bit of a cop out, but it's all up there in the film.

nothing tells me that the Queen couldn't have "benefited?" from the cloning process as well.

The gigantic external womb was how the Queen 'benefited'.

[Gates]

It's always baffled me that it's viewed as a positive...

[SM]

Only by Gediman.  It removed the need for eggs and hosts.

[Gates]

I guess he's completely off the deep end by that point because he has to see it takes longer, much longer comparatively...

Actually, there's a question...what's the estimate (if any) on gestation for that thing..?

[SM]

A matter of hours.  It's around 135 minutes from when the Aliens break out to the Auriga crashing.  The Newborn is born a few minutes before it crashes, but the Queen started her "second cycle" before the Aliens escaped.  Exactly how long is not known.

[Gates]

Hmmm...so it's actually faster vs. a solo egg/host...interesting...now I wonder, if given time, the Queen would develop a string of those - popping out ten or twenty a time...

Food for thought...

[SM]

Dunno how it'd work to be honest.  Assuming the Newborn didn't kill her, would the womb have healed or would she grow another one, or was the Newborn a one off?

[Gates]

I imagine multiple wombs growing out of the Queen, whacky and disordered - growing up walls, on ceilings and floor...Newborns dropping every 3hrs, screeching "mommmmzzzzz" ever so innocently...

It would be glorious...

[RagingDragon]

From the position of the womb, and that it was external, it seemed like they intended it to replace the egg sac.  It even looked a bit like it, iirc, but that could've just been to keep the audience guessing.

Dunno how it'd work to be honest.  Assuming the Newborn didn't kill her, would the womb have healed or would she grow another one, or was the Newborn a one off?

I've wondered this before, along with whether it would've killed Ripley or not, eventually.  Most likely yes, making it a self-destructive artifact of the genetic tampering, but part of me likes to think that it picked Ripley as it's mother.

[SM]

The intent of the Newborn was for it to procreate with Ripley.  Not sure she'd survive that were it successful.

[Gates]

Alien-lesbian-incest...I like...

[RagingDragon]

The intent of the Newborn was for it to procreate with Ripley.  Not sure she'd survive that were it successful.

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Bow chicka bow-wow

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