Ok, so I want to revisit the acid melting through the floor just before Bishop is impaled by the queens tail (I know, I know, there have been a *gazillion* variations on this theory already, ranging from Bishop being 'stung', to his legs eggmorphing, to walking ovomorph..non have sat well with me as plausible) so (and apologies if this has already been suggested...its a looong thread) as a slight variation on that, I wanna talk about secreted resin and what we *actually* saw in Alien directors cut vs what we may presume we saw;
So we don't know how the secreted resin / hive works...we've never *seen* it be made on screen, and its unclear whether xenomorph 'build / construct' it, or whether it is also capable of biological growth itself. Consider the sort of silver-looking biomechnical 'nest' we see in the lower decks of the Nostromo on the walls just prior to seeing Dallas and Brett - when we consider the acidity of xenomorph blood, was all of that secreted resin, or was that in part the metal of the ship walls itself getting melted/eaten away/consumed by the biological material secreted by the xeno in order to spread/grow? (I will come back to this in a moment as to why it'd be relevant).
Whilst I love the theory of eggmorphing myself, it has been documented that officially, the intention was not the the hosts were undergoing metamorphosis into an ovomorph, but rather, were dissolving to feed the developing ovomorph nutrients. With that in mind, when you consider the size of an ovomorph, if they were not formed *by* the bodies of Dallas and Brett, its also unlikely that drone could lay one (never mind two) - consider, we see yolk-like developing eggs spill from the queens egg sack when Ripley blasts it with a grenade launcher, showing they develop within the egg sack, not within the queens body itself.
With that in mind, I was reminded of the production prop photo of the eggs (plural) built for Alien 3... and in that picture, you will see what could be considered a (much) smaller, developing egg held in secreted resin alongside the regular sized eggs. whilst we do not see that on screen (only the open ovomorph) it had me thinking... what if ovomorphs can actually grow from the biological material secreted from a xeno. Consider, that in an ideal situation, there would be a drone tending to these eggs, placing hosts to dissolve/feed them nutrients.
With that in mind, here is my hypothesis;
biological material dripping from the queen burns through the floor just prior to Bishop being attacked. it burns into the underside of the grates in the loading bay, and takes root like a spore, growing, eating away at the ships interior whilst Ripley and Co. are in hyper sleep. Within that growing biological material, a cluster of small ovomorphs begin to form. The first to mature opens and the hugger walks to the adjacent cryochamber.. we then see the open ovomorph in the underside of the loading bay in the opening of the movie.
in this way, no egg needed to be laid, hidden or 'conveniently placed' by the queen. No host was required, and Bishop wasn't involved. It also would accounts for the placement/position of the egg in Alien 3, and why ovomorphs would be so high up the wall in Alien Directors cut (such as seen where Brett is cocooned) when the xeno could have simply placed it on the floor.
Thoughts?
To support this theory:
https://imgur.com/a/R5CSfNEThere is a picture of a smaller developing egg circled next to full sized ovomorph in the production prop, and in the pic of the open egg that we saw in the opening, I have brightened the image and you can see the dark/black material dripping down the wall around the egg, demonstrating it was not placed there. 😁👍
