Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 03, 2021, 12:16:57 AM
Totally agree. Covenant Alien is just another space velociraptor from the AVP movies. They should have returned to the elegant but flamboyant body language of sadistic psychopathic killer.
The "Cameron Concept" was the origin of the space velociraptor - which every subsequent director has followed. Not that I resent
Aliens because I don't - it truly is a masterpiece. But I often wonder what
Alien 2 would have been like if they had pursued the original interpretation, as devised by O'Bannon and Giger and Scott.
Take your example imagery:
and add this crab-walking alien with tail as giant erection:
and this
which was Giger's design for the origin of the eggs: Biomechanoid machinery (symbolically reminiscent of pregnant bellies), that produced the eggs as though from a bizarre alien factory line. (One YouTube commentator says that the ribbing leading down to the floor is a conveyor belt for the eggs, although I can't see it myself). It really emphasises Giger's biomechanoid concept. Although I've always thought it a shame that the biomechanoidisms are missing from the chestburster and facehugger designs.
TC