Quote from: GrimmVision on Today at 02:31:57 AMI never want to sympathize with the Alien. If we ever get to that point in the films, the horror these creatures stir within my mind would be rendered null. Resurrection almost went there with the Newborn.
I absolutely appreciate the callback to original ideas by O'Bannon but I do think that Ridley relocating the ideas of a society with art and architecture to the Engineers was the better move. While it expands on old ideas being brought back and showcased within new films, it also keeps the scary, unknowable horror of the Alien.
I would, however, love to see Blomkamp's script realized through an audio drama, comic, or novelization!
I do think
Resurrection gets away with what it did with the Newborn, by nature of the creature being so significantly human via the extraordinary circumstances of how it came to be. But that's an exception, not a rule.
I'm of two minds about this whole thing we're learning here about Blomkamp's ideas regarding the intelligence/degree of sentience from the Alien. On one hand, this is
way more interesting a concept than I ever expected to see from Blomkamp's project. On the other, the execution of such an idea can be incredibly tacky in execution (and likely would have been, if the Kenner mech suits and some of the hybrids are anything to go by). Who knows how it would have played on screen, or what it would have done for/to the creature retroactively and moving forward.
I genuinely do want to see this done as a comic or book or something now, though. This new detail is the first little tidbit about the whole project that's really set a bit of a lightbulb off in my head, even if it is mostly in a "What If?" sort of way.