Quote from: War Wager on Jun 05, 2008, 02:23:41 PM
Comparing Aliens to dogs is stupid. They're not like anything on Earth.
Um, just to, you know, keep this in perspective ...
Dogs are real. I have a couple curled up on the floor of my office.
Aliens, in the form of the xenomorph bugs about which much as been said here,
don't exist. No such creatures. They are like Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, and Princess Leia -- made-up characters brought to ersatz-life by writers, actors, directors, producers, publishers, printers and the guy sitting in the booth up behind the seats at your friendly, neighborhood multiplex.
So one can imbue them with whatever powers and abilities one wishes. In the first movie, they looked scary-cool, but they make no structural sense whatsoever. They are fantasy creatures who would collapse under their own weight in one gravity. Any engineers here? Any biologists?
As one of the guys who got to present them a few times, with the blessings of the guys who own it all, I see humans, Predators, and Aliens, and no matter how I slice it, the Aliens come up last on the smarts-scale.
As I've said all along, your mileage may vary, but don't get too het up about it -- it's all make-believe.
It's once-upon-a-time -- don't give yourself ulcers over it. Life is too short.