Quote from: Kimarhi on May 09, 2014, 12:54:30 AM
unless it lets her rapidly produce eggs whereas not having one wouldn't.
Given the relatively small amount of time she would have to lay one (and place it), I'm not sure it's got a huge speed advantage. We saw in '
Aliens' how the ones at an early period of development are very primitive and pale. They clearly need to mature while still within her and I'd guess that, given that she's not exactly machine-gunning them out (especially if we factor in how there's not another 'egg laying' noise heard in the background after Ripley sees the first getting deposited), it takes a fair while for them to get along her biological conveyor belt and get shunted out. Looks like it could be at least a whole day, if not more.
It's always possible (more so since the inconsistent black ooze, if we factor in '
Prometheus', just like the Predalien reproduction cycle now is), but I just don't see it as
probable. It totally negates the point of her getting webbed up and slowly laying them the other way.
Quote from: SM on May 09, 2014, 01:02:29 AM
She fit herself in to the landing gear bay without any major issues. They're nothing if not limber, and thems is some mighty long arms.
That's the problem. They're too long.
I've even tried posing the Revoltech Queen and two different CGI models, but it's an excessively awkward thing for her to do, given her limb mobility and dimensions of the same - and likely damages the precious egg in doing so.
QuoteQuoteI'm also unsure an egg would fit in between the dorsal spikes without simply falling off between the gaps.
It was hanging upside down at the start of Alien3.
True. I'd guess it takes a while for it to set in place, given the state of Newt's resin, but YMMV.
Quote from: SM on May 09, 2014, 08:04:31 AM
Carrying one with the smaller arms makes no sense as Ripley is armed and eggs are flammable. Might as well paint a big red bulls eye on it.
If it's stuck to her back/wedged between the dorsal spines, she is able to protect the hugger inside with her bulk.
If it was specifically for protection, she'd be better off winding her tail around it and keeping it out of the line of fire completely.
On the other hand, given how she was literally using them as weapons, just moments before, we'd be left with the issue of why she wouldn't just attempt to do the same here: Carry one up and have its contents leap at Newt/Ripley, like a biological gun ('organic ballistics' being a concept which '
Alien 3' implies they're familiar with, going by how one spat acid at a prisoner).
And we're
also lleft with the issue of... Where would she find an egg which wasn't already set on fire?