Egg on Sulaco

Started by Darkness, Nov 01, 2006, 08:21:10 AM

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Local Trouble

Local Trouble

#1050
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 09, 2014, 01:14:46 AM
Quote from: Xenomorphine on May 09, 2014, 12:48:29 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 08, 2014, 06:30:23 PM
No, the one about the queen oozing out a glob of goo that congealed in the subflooring of the hangar bay and then grew into the egg we saw.

Again, if she can do that, why does she naturally grow an egg sack? There'd be no point in it even existing.

Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 12, 2012, 04:41:51 AM
Well, the egg sac would allow for the rapid production of fully functional eggs.  This method would be much slower.  Theoretically, a soldier alien could produce eggs the same way.

Quote from: Kimarhi on May 09, 2014, 12:54:30 AM
unless it lets her rapidly produce eggs whereas not having one wouldn't.

:D

:D

426Buddy

426Buddy

#1051
I like it  ;)

Local Trouble

Local Trouble

#1052
Quote from: 426Buddy on Jun 22, 2016, 03:07:44 PM
I like it  ;)

It's not a popular theory.  Then again, neither was the royal facehugger back in the day.  Some fans who were so entrenched in the "one embryo per facehugger" rule that any suggestion otherwise was considered heresy and the term "royal facehugger" was met with derision.

Nowadays, it's basically mainstream.  Or at least, SM has accepted it, which amounts to essentially the same thing.

Adam802

Adam802

#1053
This has been a point of debate/discussion in the community for a while.  But I think it's overthink-ed. 

I think it's really safe to assume that the Queen just managed to lay it while hiding on the back of the dropship at some point.  As a parasitic species like the Xeno would propagate as much as possible, so its not hard to believe the Queen could lay an egg or 2 with out her egg-sack.  Or a Drone could've stuck the egg to the dropship while it was very briefly landed on the surface.  Again, Xenos have been known to sneak aboard/around ships frequantly.

As for the egg's apparent location as seen in Alien 3, it was probably an oversight by the A3 filmmakers.  As we know, A3 went through some real development hell, so it's easy to see how the continuity of it all could've been either overlooked or messed up.  Either way, we really shouldn't look too much into the actual LOCATION of the egg as seen in the beginning of A3, and concentrate more on just the fact that there was an egg on the Sulaco in general. 

Scorpio

Scorpio

#1054
The xenos placing the eggs there seems to be the most plausible theory.

If you remember in Alien Resurrection, the xenos set a trap by placing eggs near the surface of the water.  The Queen couldn't have put them there as she was immobile in a waste tank at the bottom of the ship.

So I think the xenos placed the eggs onboard the dropship to set a trap for Ripley and company.  Probably while Ripley and Hicks were still trying to escape Operations.

SM

SM

#1055
While the dropship was still 15 minutes from landing?

Scorpio

Scorpio

#1056
Quote from: SM on Jun 30, 2016, 06:32:03 AM
While the dropship was still 15 minutes from landing?

It's been a while since I've seen Aliens so I'm not sure of the time frame.  When exactly did the dropship land?


Then it could have been while Bishop was waiting on the platform for Ripley while she went into the hive to rescue Newt.  That makes more sense.

HuDaFuK

HuDaFuK

#1057
It's not inconceivable that an Alien could have snuck an egg on board the dropship.

The problem is the egg isn't on the dropship. It's clearly attached to a joist labelled "SULACO" in the opening of the third film.

Local Trouble

Local Trouble

#1058
Quote from: SM on Jun 30, 2016, 06:32:03 AM
While the dropship was still 15 minutes from landing?

You can make it work.

Scorpio

Scorpio

#1059
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 30, 2016, 07:52:07 AM
It's not inconceivable that an Alien could have snuck an egg on board the dropship.

The problem is the egg isn't on the dropship. It's clearly attached to a joist labelled "SULACO" in the opening of the third film.

Then an alien stowed away with the egg and carried it onto the Sulaco.

HuDaFuK

HuDaFuK

#1060
So where did that Alien go? Why didn't it attempt to do anything to the other people on board? Why didn't it help the Queen and stop her being killed?

Scorpio

Scorpio

#1061
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 30, 2016, 12:51:53 PM
So where did that Alien go? Why didn't it attempt to do anything to the other people on board? Why didn't it help the Queen and stop her being killed?

It just went to hibernate like the original alien on the Nostromo.

HuDaFuK

HuDaFuK

#1062
Leaving it's Queen to die...

Don't buy it. If there were more Aliens on board, we would've seen them.

Scorpio

Scorpio

#1063
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 30, 2016, 02:33:47 PM
Leaving it's Queen to die...

Don't buy it. If there were more Aliens on board, we would've seen them.

We heard the facehugger during the end credits of Aliens.

Plus, we are told in the film that the Queen communicates with the other aliens.  She could've told the xeno to wait and use the facehugger as a backup plan.  Xenos are smart creatures, as they know to cut the power, so this isn't contradicted by the film.

HuDaFuK

HuDaFuK

#1064
Quote from: Scorpio on Jun 30, 2016, 02:50:03 PMWe heard the facehugger during the end credits of Aliens.

That was just there as a joke. Cameron said as much.

Quote from: Scorpio on Jun 30, 2016, 02:50:03 PMPlus, we are told in the film that the Queen communicates with the other aliens.  She could've told the xeno to wait and use the facehugger as a backup plan.  Xenos are smart creatures, as they know to cut the power, so this isn't contradicted by the film.

It still doesn't make sense that it wouldn't try and defend it's Queen. She's basically the future of the Hive. She's not gonna sacrifice herself when she has potential backup there.

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