Quote from: Space Disc Jockey on Nov 21, 2007, 04:04:54 AM
There were no rules for this situation. What do you expect a young-Queen to do, if she can't mass produce?
Go somewhere quiet and wait until ready to lay her very deadly minefield of eggs.
However, it was basically confirmed, a fair while back, that this is not a Queen, but an ordinary adult transforming into one. In this very topic, that was reiterated.
QuoteI don't see how this regurgitation method breaks anything in the Alien cycle, especially the stages of the Queen. If this only applies to a Queen, then I'm all for it.
It doesn't. It applies to adults, generally. Or at least, those who are undergoing the hormonal/whatever stages necessary to transform into a Queen:
Quote from: Colin_Strause on Nov 21, 2007, 12:36:50 AM
As discussed to death in another thread, there is a complexity to Alien reproduction that isn't limited to such a simple and rigid structure. Nature finds a way, and we've never seen the phase of an Alien pre-queen before. We've seen what born queens do in A:R, but what does a lone alpha Alien do to reproduce? What's that next phase look like? Etc, etc. These were the questions that got us excited when we did our pitch.
People who say that a Queen would be boring presume that it would be presented as a big surprise at the end. Are Predators boring, just because they're doing the same old thing as ever? Queens have a place in the nest and the next step should not necessarily be to add something new, but to use what we've already got in refreshing and intriguing new ways.
You have a creature. You know what it does. Now you build a story around that, giving it opportunities to use those traits to its advantage and play to its most iconic strengths as best as you can.
The psychosexual stuff hasn't really been in play since 1979, if we're talking about the adult stage. Why not reintroduce that? Why not reintroduce egging? We've seen it before, certainly, but we've also seen a lot of other stuff before, too. It's what you, as a film-maker, do with it. That's what counts.
Having said that, we're now getting strong indications that this added reproduction thing is actually egging dressed up in new clothes. We've even been given a major hint that we'll see cocoons.
The question is, does the Predalien use those cocooned victims to give them oral facehuggers or chestbursters?
If this is, indeed, egging coming back, then I think the directors have shot themselves in the foot by alluding to sometihng completely different, all of this time. They could have generated
much higher positive publicity for themselves, if they had hinted at such near the start of all this. Instead, it's generated a mass of negative publicity.
If it's not and the thing's sticking chestbursters in people
and changing into a Queen, then we've got the same problems as are noted in my signature.
If it's egging victims, however (or doing a close approximation), then what we see
might just fit the lifecycle.
Remember, one of the directors has now said he considers the extended versions of the original films to be canon. That
includes the cocoon sequence.
But if it's not egging, I'd like to know what the hell he thought was going on with Brett, 'cause that ain't no snazzy new wallpaper idea the Alien's trying on with him...
