Quote from: SiL on Apr 21, 2007, 09:00:55 AM
When it comes to this, people call me a purist, but I don't think that's fair.
I appreciate everything that went into the original design. The aesthetic, the sexual undertones, the uniqueness, its ultimate composition. So much went into creating something that was new and frightening, easily one of, if not the, best creature design to grace the screen. It was bizarre and twisted, a biomechanical parody of the human form.
And now it looks like a shit that gained sentience. A tube here or there. The second jaw, a slightly elongated head. Drool, a tail, protrusions on the back. But now it looks so far removed from what it was I just can't look at it and think 'That's the Alien'. It's not. It's a knock-off, a parody, something that belongs in a B-movie ripoff.
There end my two cents.
Odd as it may seem, SiL, I agree with you... The original design was top notch, why mess with it...?
The 'Aliens' movie is 'guilty' of this odd change between the 'domed xenos' and the 'un-domed ones'... This later design was less expensive, less heavy for the stunt guys, but it created continuity problems because the hosts being from the same species, why the different xeno appearance...?
People have suggested that the 'Aliens' ones are drones, there to protect the Queen and gather hosts for impregnation, and the original was a soldier one, more individualistic in nature and a hunter... But we have seen now, in AVP, the Queen and the 'domed ones' together, so that explanation is off now... So why the different designs then...?
IMO, the AVP2 design is there as a crowd-pleaser, what I called a 'fan-pleaser'... And it will just add more to the confusion especially if there is to be no Queen... This is a visual gaffe that was never explained on-screen... And I think they should, somehow, explain this in AVP2...but this is me holding my breath...
So, SiL, if you are a purist, then so am I, and that is somewhat contradictory as far as I am concerned, right...?