Quote from: SM on Aug 28, 2007, 07:10:19 AM
Quotewell, where are their complex light-sensing organs?
Behind the front of the cowl; or simply just - the front of the cowl.
there's only bone behind the front of the dome, taken from a replica of a human skull. empty eye-sockets. it HAD eyes there, but they were removed during pre-production of
alien because giger and co felt they looked too much like "motor-cyclist's goggles" and to generally make the alien creepier. the dome itself is only semi-transparent. neither the proper transparency or shape for an entire eye or a lens to an eye.
in the models for
aliens, the front section is simply opaque and solid -- not different than any other section of the alien's body.
IF they have eyes, it's something i've never seen anyone talk about, ever. i thought once that maybe those bulges just forward of the tube that run laterally down their heads, just under the carapace, could be eyes. but they seem to be solid fleshy nodules, and are not positioned where a
predator's eyes should be. animals that hunt by vision have eyes on the fronts of their skulls, not the sides. the front is good for binocular vision, and depth perception: neccessary to hunt by sight. the sides are good for peripheral vision, ie: watching for predators. since the xenomorphs seem to be at the top of their food chain, and if they hunt by sight, their eyes would be in the front. no eyes in front? they don't hunt by sight.