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Posted by Jegeren
 - Mar 03, 2015, 09:55:14 PM
Probably.  We see divergent evolution in real life, so why not with Xenomorphs?
Posted by Son Of Kane
 - Mar 03, 2015, 09:54:35 PM
And thank f**k
Posted by Xenomorphine
 - Mar 03, 2015, 09:52:59 PM
Quote from: The Cruentus on Mar 03, 2015, 04:33:44 PM
That is if the Queen is pure however, Requiem shows that Queen do take traits as well, I don't have a problem with that but the execution was left to be desired.

Claiming that the Predalien might be a Queen was only something the directors began speculating as a possibility in press conferences, once they read someone on here mention it (because of the head having a vague resemblance to a Queen's crown).

At no point during the production was it ever intended to be viewed as a Queen-in-waiting.
Posted by Son Of Kane
 - Mar 03, 2015, 07:27:38 PM
Yeah it is terrible.
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Mar 03, 2015, 04:33:44 PM
That is if the Queen is pure however, Requiem shows that Queen do take traits as well, I don't have a problem with that but the execution was left to be desired.

Not bad theory though.

Just checked wikipedia, I thought I heard this before as well, I just needed to be sure but an adi member explained about the Resurrection Alien legs.

"Aliens have been alternatively portrayed as both plantigrade and digitigrade organisms, usually in accordance to their host. Human-spawned Aliens were usually portrayed as having humanoid hind limbs, while in Alien 3, the featured Alien sported double-jointed legs due to its quadrupedal host. This characteristic would be continued in Alien Resurrection for the human-spawned Aliens. Tom Woodruff, who had previously played the "dog-alien" in Alien 3, described the human-spawned Aliens in Resurrection as feeling more like a dog than the previous creature, despite having been born from human hosts.[19] The human-spawned Alien warriors would revert to a plantigrade posture in Alien vs. Predator."

Well, I think that is the worst explanation ever  :P
Posted by Xenomorphine
 - Mar 03, 2015, 04:04:59 PM
The best theory I've heard is that the genetic manipulation caused some of the 'pure' DNA strain of the Queen to be carried over. Hence, the leg design.
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Mar 03, 2015, 02:41:26 PM
True but that doesn't explain the "dog legs", the fleshy look I do attribute to the dna cross over however.
This is also a sad thing, we want Xenomorphs to stay with their original bio-mechanical look but we also like to have something new, both can be either good or bad. Chet was bad for sure.  :laugh:
Posted by Corporal Hicks
 - Mar 03, 2015, 02:38:38 PM
Quote from: The Cruentus on Mar 03, 2015, 01:48:55 PM
The Leg design and the other changes were meant to be because of a different host, but Resurrection screwed that up along with silly design changes, fleshy look and so on. I wonder if there was explanation for it behind the scenes, its been awhile since I watched them.

They were mutants. DNA crossover from Ripley.
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Mar 03, 2015, 02:31:59 PM
I would love to see that, pity the original script for Prometheus wasn't used, we would have had white Xenomorphs then,  Beluga-morphs I believe they were called.
The chestburster had the ability to slide through anything due to a lack of bones or something, the "facehugger" was like an octopus as well, apparently the cargo holds of the Engineer ships held different variation of Xenomorphs or bio-weapons.
Posted by Xenomorphine
 - Mar 03, 2015, 02:04:16 PM
Evolution can always play its part, but a much easier way to do it would be to have more diverse hosts.

I'm honestly hoping the new film will show us some nice Lovecraftian stuff along those lines. Aliens with different physiology because of having completely different hosts.
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Mar 03, 2015, 01:48:55 PM
Quote from: Son Of Kane on Feb 28, 2015, 12:11:28 PM
Quote from: Omegazilla on Feb 28, 2015, 11:11:27 AM
It's been what I think explains the appearence differences between the LV426 Aliens and the Antarctica Aliens in AvP.

That's actually just because AVP is garbage and uses garbage.

And from what we've seen so far in the original films I don't think so.

The Alien in Alien and Aliens in Aliens all came from the same place, there's loads of theories floating about such as the they are two different types or as Cameron stated that his were older. Alien3 we know it's because it came from an animal, in most people's preference an ox. So that difference is explained. (Leg design changes and slight other changes are purely aesthetic if you take A:I into account, and there are slight variations in Aliens also.)

The Resurrection Aliens are just a biological mess, I would hesitate to even call them Aliens.

The vials in the vases in Prometheus produce Alien-like creatures but I would refer to them as cousins at most. (Alligator to Crocodile)

The Leg design and the other changes were meant to be because of a different host, but Resurrection screwed that up along with silly design changes, fleshy look and so on. I wonder if there was explanation for it behind the scenes, its been awhile since I watched them.

As for Prometheus creatures, I agree, they are not proto-Xenomorphs no matter how someone wishes it, there is a connection kind like crocodile - Alligator, I would have said Caimen  :laugh: but nothing else, I would say the accelerent is much more deadly than Xenomorphs because its more infections and random, not even Xenos are immune to it.
Posted by Born Of Cold Light
 - Feb 28, 2015, 11:44:58 PM
I still hope we get to see a version of the ultramorph sometime.
Posted by Doktor Wunderbar
 - Feb 28, 2015, 11:41:06 PM
Quote from: evolution_rex on Feb 28, 2015, 09:24:00 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Feb 28, 2015, 12:07:16 PM
Well Ridley straight up said that the alien that came out of the engineer would look far different than an alien that popped out of the human and thus far all the aliens from each movie were different. So yea, we might not even recognized an alien that evolved on another planet.
When did he say this? So does that imply that the Deacon that came out of the Engineer was just a Engineer-Xenomorph?
Not exactly, since the creature that impregnated the Engineer wasn't even a facehugger.
Posted by evolution_rex
 - Feb 28, 2015, 09:24:00 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Feb 28, 2015, 12:07:16 PM
Well Ridley straight up said that the alien that came out of the engineer would look far different than an alien that popped out of the human and thus far all the aliens from each movie were different. So yea, we might not even recognized an alien that evolved on another planet.
When did he say this? So does that imply that the Deacon that came out of the Engineer was just a Engineer-Xenomorph?
Posted by Son Of Kane
 - Feb 28, 2015, 12:25:58 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Feb 28, 2015, 12:22:02 PM
Actually I hope that the hive alien hierarchy is just one path the alien can evolve into. After all, surely that is not the only method of life a creature so vastly adaptable could be relegated to.

Truth is we simply don't know.
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