Quote from: ChrisPachi on Dec 17, 2011, 12:22:27 PM
Perhaps the alien resin is not a copy of the human chest cavity, but rather the human chest cavity is a copy of the alien resin... Nah. That's dumb.
And then Agent Smith appears in the doorway as the Alien King...
QuoteThe alien builds, that's no doubt. Even in the deleted scene from the original film the alien has 'plastered' the walls with some construction. But surely the derelict is not just plastered over by alien goo.
Much of the atmosphere processor's interior was... And that was only after two weeks. They might've covered the entire thing
and colony in the stuff if it had gone much longer.
Quote from: St_Eddie on Dec 17, 2011, 03:16:48 PM
You'll noticed that there's more than just resin in these two environments. There's clearly a lot of technology (or rather bio-technology), as you can see from the pipes etc. In fact, they used the walls of the same set for both environments so those pipes that you can clearly see in the Space Jockey picture are also present in the egg chamber. The Aliens don't build pipes and it's pretty much a given that a different civilisation wouldn't build the exact same pipes as the Space Jockeys!
Yes - and in the colony, precisely those sorts of things are actually visible. It's not like in '
Alien Resurrection' (which can be excused by assuming the human DNA-tainted Aliens are having as many psychological adaptation problems as Ripley 8 was). There are clear parts where the stuff is somehow being deliberately changed into structures startlingly like the ribbing and such you see in the Jockey and egg chambers, both.
I could throw up a post about this and identify them all with arrows and stuff, but... It took me ages and I'd need to be in the mood.
There's also the possibility inferred in '
Resurrection' that the gunk is somehow alive in a viral/fungal manner. It might well be a living organism, in its own right, gradually reconfiguring itself into a biomechanical matrix (not unlike the Alien, itself, in that respect). Being alive would certainly explain how it can slowly creep outward from where the creatures are hibernating, if one assumes they
were dormant and not just periodically resting.
There is actually a precedence for this: Look at how the eggs appear to start sprouting roots. There could be a connection.