Reproduction Method Official

[Spidey3121]

They should stop trying to explain stuff. Aren't we better off not knowing anyways.

[Xenomorphine]

Y'all do realise this is probably how they explain ridged heads vs. smooth heads, right?

Being the products of oral?

[ep40]

Y'all do realise this is probably how they explain ridged heads vs. smooth heads, right?

Being the products of oral?

I have bad felling about this, because some aspects maybe true with yours sugestion.

[automirage04]

Y'all do realise this is probably how they explain ridged heads vs. smooth heads, right?

What do you mean?

Like:

Smooth = facehugger

Ridge = deepthroat?

[Uncanny Antman]

I hope that's not the case.

There's no way in hell I'm accepting that as a retcon of the events in Aliens.

No damn way. 

For me, the AvP universe is completely divorced from the Alien universe.

[The Chibi Kiriyama]

I hope that's not the case.

There's no way in hell I'm accepting that as a retcon of the events in Aliens.

No damn way. 

For me, the AvP universe is completely divorced from the Alien universe.

It's starting to become the same for me, and to be honest I don't think the audience would mind if that is indeed the case.

[Huol]

I prefer the idea that:
smooth head=young
ridged head= older


Since the aliens in Alien, alien 3, avp and alien ressurection where under a day old, they had smooth heads.
Yet the ones in Aliens had been there over a day or two (i cant remember how long exactly) they had shed their "cowls" and gotten the ridged head.

[RoaryUK]

Y'all do realise this is probably how they explain ridged heads vs. smooth heads, right?

What do you mean?

Like:

Smooth = facehugger

Ridge = deepthroat?

I always thought the ridged heads vs. smooth heads thing was to do with age....only ALIENS featured the ridged heads and that was supposedly the idea.  The obvious problem is how old are the Aliens for Requiem, or are they just starting out and its something to do with their evironment, either way you look at it continuity has gone right out of the window....I fear this film is becoming a real mess.

[Spaghetti]

For me, the AvP universe is completely divorced from the Alien universe.

yeah thats pretty much how it should be interpreted


and the difference between ridged/smooth alien heads is simple:

smooth: Alien monster

ridged: cannon fodder

[Xenomorphine]

I prefer the idea that:
smooth head=young
ridged head= older

Me, too. I asked, early on, about whether some sort of an explannation would be alluded to for them, in the film's story, but received no answer.

I fear that this might just be the reason why.

Had been hoping that the film would simply skip ahead a few days, to the aftermath of the main outbreak (reflecting how it would have taken some time to gather their numbers in secret), but with the recent announcements of the new cycle being specifically to allow an early method of reproduction, that no longer seems likely.

It doesn't make sense that every single creature in 'Aliens' came from that method. We saw plenty of empty eggs by the colonists.

[Xhan]

Some of the AvP Aliens are over 100 years old. Not very pringle-ated either.

[RoaryUK]

Some of the AvP Aliens are over 100 years old. Not very pringle-ated either.

You're referring to the first AvP right....so don't you mean the Alien "Eggs" were over 100 years old?  No Alien Warriors were around at the time Weyland and his team entered the Pyramid only the Queen and she was in stasis.  That was the whole idea of the hunt, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Ballzanya]

I prefer the idea that:
smooth head=young
ridged head= older

Me, too. I asked, early on, about whether some sort of an explannation would be alluded to for them, in the film's story, but received no answer.

I fear that this might just be the reason why.

Had been hoping that the film would simply skip ahead a few days, to the aftermath of the main outbreak (reflecting how it would have taken some time to gather their numbers in secret), but with the recent announcements of the new cycle being specifically to allow an early method of reproduction, that no longer seems likely.

It doesn't make sense that every single creature in 'Aliens' came from that method. We saw plenty of empty eggs by the colonists.

Oh they better not go there and try to explain that the only reason they had ridged heads in Aliens was do to that queen doing that reproduction method. As you pointed out, clearly you can see open eggs and dead facehuggers which ultimately produced ridged head aliens that way. So I agree on the age thing, but that does present a problem for avp-r.
But I supposed they just choose the design they liked the best. With that in respect to the ridged head and that only, I do like the Aliens design as opposed  to the one from Alien. Otherwise both the designs from the first two movies are good. Nothing has touched them since.

[RoaryUK]

With that in respect to the ridged head and that only, I do like the Aliens design as opposed  to the one from Alien. Otherwise both the designs from the first two movies are good. Nothing has touched them since.

I think the Alien3 design is a classic myself, that and the 2 you mentioned, but the runner deserves a mention not just because it was partially designed by Giger, but its also one of the few things ADI actually got right when they changed it.  Speaking of changes,  the only thing non of the sequels have got right since the original is the Hugger.  In fact if anything the designs (except for the Super Face Hugger which should NEVER have been removed) have got steadily WORSE!

[SiL]

They decided to finally screw with the face-hugger this movie, don't you worry