Quote from: Queen7 on Aug 24, 2014, 07:45:30 PM
The way egg morphing works makes the Alien less productive the way I see it. It's a really creepy concept that I wish they went into a little more, but having the alien turn a person into an egg then have another person be impregnated to die just seems like to much to reproduce. Cocconing a person then having a queen lay eggs is more productive since the alien could itself turn into a queen. Egg morphing could be a solution when the alien is all alone though like in the movie Alien and is not sure if transforming into a queen is the safest idea.
Like SM, I've been saying for years that the two methods are
not mutually exclusive: Egg transformation could be done to
create a Queen in an emergency situation. The result then allows for normal reproduction. Presumably, in '
Alien', the creature was hedging its bets and creating two, just in case one had been killed during the vulnerable implantation.
I used to like the idea of any adult being able to become one. It was realised well in Perry's adaptation of the first graphic novel, in prose. But ever since '
Alien 3', we know that specialised facehuggers impregnate a host with a Queen. If any adult could become one, there'd be no biological reason for that. So, really, this goes all the way back to '
Alien 3... If it hadn't been for that, the 'adult-becomes-Queen' theory could still stand (and transforming hosts into eggs would be seen as a preliminary in-between stage of its development).