Quote from: whiterabbit on Jan 07, 2016, 08:44:59 AM
I'm talking about the murals on the ceiling and not the one on the wall. Particularly the one holding the egg. Although that could be the same creature in the other ceiling mural.
Yes, it is the same creature, if you take a close look.
Photos from the art book included. They are btw at the very beggining of the book with nothing mentionned, it is a silent scream to say : here is the creature to solve the mystery !!
If you play the game of taking the place of the filmmakers and you want to tell the audience, without explaining it explicitly, that the usual xenomorph comes from the black goo, how would you do it ?
You would make this creature and hint that it lays eggs as a lifecycle, and we would then deduct that infected eggs contains facehuggers. No ?
The creature has a great ressemblance with the usual alien but it is not the alien, no need to mention the lack of the penis-shaped head, as well as the 4 petals egg on the ceiling which is different from the usual egg.
As for the crucified creature on center of the mural, there wouldn't be any point of showing it if it was only involving human/engineer DNA. On the ceiling, you have this xenomorph-
like creature next to a human, so my bet is that those 2 are needed to create the crucified creature... unlike the Deacon.
Spoiler
Please someone give a name to them !